Publisher's Synopsis
Are you ready to learn how to play the piano but need a bit more help with it? Have you been following along with the previous books in this series but are ready to begin learning new lessons?
In particular, within this book, you can expect to find:
- Information about the staff and how to read sight music
- An understanding of middle C and why it is essential-on paper and in practice
- What the difference is between tones and semitones and how you can better understand how to use them
- How to recognize, read, and remember both the bass and treble clef with ease so you aren't constantly wondering what note goes where
- Learning all about time signatures, key signatures, and tempos, as well as how to use them
- Why a metronome is so essential to practicing
- A list of the most common piano notations that come into play, ranging from accidentals, dynamics, and more
- Where to look to start practicing your skills with ease
If so, then this book is for you. In this book, you are going to be provided with a crash course into some of the more advanced piano techniques for newbies beginning their journey into playing the piano. If you are reading this book, you probably already know more or less how to read sight music, how to play basic tones, and how to generally approach the piano. However, from here on out, you are going to be provided with several other techniques as well.
These techniques include learning to identify and create chords, recognizing arpeggios, and more. They involve getting to go through the major and minor scales, learning how to play them, and how to utilize them to the fullest. If you pick up this book, you are committing yourself to learn how to become a more well rounded pianist. Intermingled with action, you will also see plenty of theory to help you really understand the purpose behind everything that you do. As you read, you should develop a much firmer comprehension of what it will take for you to get through playing piano and be effective in general. If you're ready to practice more and are ready to get started today, then keep on reading... Within this book, you are going to find:
- Exercises to help you work on your fingering to ensure that you are highly effective and able to run through your notes with ease
- How to practice your chords to the best of your ability without sacrificing content or quality
- Information about keeping piano practice fun and engaging, no matter how long or how little you have spent working on something
- What you can do to learn how to identify varying intervals, as well as how to jump about between scales and values
- Understanding how to play both the C Major and F Major scales with ease
- Learning to recognize the connection between the major and minor scales so that you are able to tell how they influence each other
- How to name your intervals
- Information and skills to help you learn to play arpeggios and broken chords
- The purpose of inverting chords and how it can help so much
- Recognition between the harmonic, melodic, and natural minors
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