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Free Online Video Music Lessons
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"When a young boy begins to play on his family's piano, reveling in the fun of plunking the keys, his father signs him up for lessons so that he can learn to play properly. With his father's encouragement, Raj learns notes, then scales, then songs, and finally classical pieces that his father can recognize and be proud of. But the more Raj practices and the more skilled he becomes, the less he enjoys playing, until he grows up and stops playing altogether....
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Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you don't know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory, and applies it to playing the piano and keyboard. And if you've been playing for awhile? Or took lessons when you were a child but haven't played since? You can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing, or use the book as a...
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"With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, piano aficionado Charles Cooke offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists,...
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A self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, that shows everything one needs to know about the instrument itself-- parts, different types, care of pianos-- and provides the basics of reading piano music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques.
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Posture and position -- Basic fingering -- Starting to move -- Major pentascales and chords -- Minor pentascales and chords -- Finger gymnastics -- More about chords -- Minor scales -- Major scales -- Music à la mode -- Singing the blues -- Good grief, more scales -- I've got rhythm -- Expressive exercises -- One brain, two hands -- Advanced fingering -- Variations on a theme by Hanon --Teaching your fingers to fly -- Full arpeggios -- Scale olympics...