Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics
Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano. 

Knack Piano for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with full-color photographs and musical notation. The book will teach readers everything a beginner should know about the instrument itself—the parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianos—and then provide the basics of reading piano music and playing. Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano.

   The book will include:

     * An explanation of how the piano works.

     * An exploration of the instrument, sitting correctly, playing all over the keyboard on   

         the black keys.

     * Finding familiar tunes on the piano.

     * Music notation, where it comes from, directions (up and down) on the keyboard and

         on the music page.

Lessons will be geared toward achievable results for the reader without any prior knowledge of music, but also contain sidebars on various styles and techniques for the more advanced reader. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to play some basic songs, including some that will be provided in the Appendix.

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Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics
Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano. 

Knack Piano for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with full-color photographs and musical notation. The book will teach readers everything a beginner should know about the instrument itself—the parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianos—and then provide the basics of reading piano music and playing. Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano.

   The book will include:

     * An explanation of how the piano works.

     * An exploration of the instrument, sitting correctly, playing all over the keyboard on   

         the black keys.

     * Finding familiar tunes on the piano.

     * Music notation, where it comes from, directions (up and down) on the keyboard and

         on the music page.

Lessons will be geared toward achievable results for the reader without any prior knowledge of music, but also contain sidebars on various styles and techniques for the more advanced reader. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to play some basic songs, including some that will be provided in the Appendix.

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Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics

Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics

Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics

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Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano. 

Knack Piano for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with full-color photographs and musical notation. The book will teach readers everything a beginner should know about the instrument itself—the parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianos—and then provide the basics of reading piano music and playing. Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano.

   The book will include:

     * An explanation of how the piano works.

     * An exploration of the instrument, sitting correctly, playing all over the keyboard on   

         the black keys.

     * Finding familiar tunes on the piano.

     * Music notation, where it comes from, directions (up and down) on the keyboard and

         on the music page.

Lessons will be geared toward achievable results for the reader without any prior knowledge of music, but also contain sidebars on various styles and techniques for the more advanced reader. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to play some basic songs, including some that will be provided in the Appendix.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762766376
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 02/09/2010
Series: Knack: Make It Easy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 32 MB
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About the Author

Margaret Ann Martin graduated with a Masters Degree in Piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.  She has been teaching piano and composition at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven for more than twenty years. 

Table of Contents

Knack Piano for Everyone with CD

Contents

Introduction                                                                   

                                                                  

Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted       

Choosing a Piano

Moving Around the Keyboard

Pedals

Finger Patterns and Numbers

Listening

A Jump Start on Rhythm Notation

                                                                   

Chapter 2: Music Notation              

Rhythm and Note Values

More Rhythm

From Whence Notation?

Treble and Bass Clefs                                               

The Grand Staff

“Oh, Susanna!” in Notation

                                                                   

Chapter 3: More Basics                          

Rhythms of Famous Tunes                                                         

Marker Notes and Intervals

More Intervals Around Marker Notes

Fingering Relates to Intervals

Symbols for Silence

                                                                   

Chapter 4: Let’s Play!                 

Basic Exercises

Treble Clef Melodies

Bass Clef Melodies                                                 

Piano Melodies                

More Grand Staff Tunes (and Some Advice)

The Octave Sign

                                                                      

Chapter 5: Keys, Steps, Markers              

Black Key Names

Naturals

Half Steps and Whole Steps

Enharmonic Keys

New Markers: High G, Low F

The Symmetry of the Cs

Chapter 6: Five-finger Patterns

Eighth Notes

Major Five-finger Patterns

Playing Five-finger Patterns

Minor Five-finger Patterns

Topography of Patterns

Practicing the Major/Minor Patterns

Chapter 7: Chords

Out of the Five-finger Patterns—Chords

Blocked and Broken Triads

Intervals: 6ths

Triad Inversions: First Inversion

Second Inversion

Triads with Black Keys

Chapter 8: Perfect Fifths, etc.

Perfect Fifths, Perfect Accompaniments

Chromatic Scales in Perfect Fifths

Dotted Quarter and Eighth Note

“Oh, Susanna!” Again

Triplets in Music

More Music

Chapter 9: The Major Scale

An Easy Way to Play a Scale

Scale Patterns of Half and Whole Steps

The C Major “Template”

Again, Beginning on a Different Key

Scale Degrees Numbered

The Magic Circle of Fifths

Chapter 10: Questions

Music and Questions

Music to Analyze

Organizing Practice Time

Dynamic Variety

Ritardando, Fermata, a Tempo

More Music

Chapter 11: More Scales

D-Flat Major Scale

Another Scale Using All Five Black Keys

Technique of White Key Scales

C Major Scale in Contrary Motion

Topography of Scales

Circle of Fifths, Again

Chapter 12: Minor Keys

The Family of Keys

Harmonic Minor, The Snake Charmer

Melodic Minor

Relating Minor to Major

Music with Minor Sound

More Minor Music

Chapter 13: Building Chords

  Triads on Every Note of the Scale

  Other Keys, Other Triads

  Primary Chords

  Primary Chords for a Simple Tune

  Break the Blocks; Add Syncopation

  Simple Tunes to Accompany

Chapter 14: Put It Together

 Find Chords for Other Popular Tunes

 A Two-Hand Accompaniment

 Transpose!

 Same Tune in the Key of F Major

 Same Tune in the Key of D Major

 Rhythms for Accompaniments

Chapter 15: Smooth Connections

 Connecting I and V in the Left Hand

 Connecting I and V in the Right Hand

 Connecting I and IV in the Left Hand

 Connecting I and IV in the Right Hand

 Start the Progression in Different Positions

 Music for Smooth Connections

                 

Chapter 16: Hands Together

Accompany with Fifths and Sixths

Music TK

Switch Hands

Accompany Each Note of the Major Scale

Challenge Your Brain

Music TK

Chapter 17:  Duets=More Fun

Sitting Together on One or Two Benches

Music for Duets

Practice Tips

More Tips for Duet Playing

Music for Duet Playing

More Music for Duet Playing

Chapter 18: Use Your Knowledge

Practice Tips

How Does It Feel?

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

The Metronome

Fingers, Hands and Brain Are Exercised

Music TK

Chapter 19: Arpeggios

Arpeggiated A Major Triad

A Major Chord Within an Octave

One Note at a Time

Equal Time for the Other Hand

Open-Chord Accompaniment

Music TK

Chapter 20: Expanding Your Piano Horizons

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