This compact edition of BASIC PIANO FOR PLEASURE is an accessible, thorough introductory text for beginning pianists. The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes students feel comfortable learning to play the piano. By the end of the first chapter, students can play a Hilley arrangement of "Amazing Grace," and a piece written especially for this text by Lynn Freeman Olson. Subsequent chapters build students' confidence by offering a consistent synthesis of keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity. Olson's original and appealing musical selections consistently complement Hilley's mastery of pedagogy and pacing. As a result, students learn difficult piano skills as they experience the excitement of playing old favorites. INDICE: 1. Listening/Dynamics/Black Keys. 2. Simple Note Values/Key Names/Black Key Groups. 3. Meter Signatures/Rests/Line and Space Notes/Steps and Skips/Seconds and Thirds. 4. Treble and Bass/Grand Staff/Fourths and Fifths/Half Steps and Whole Steps/Sharps and Flats. 5. Dotted Rhythms/Phrases. 6. Upbeats/Major Pentascales. 7. Triads/Sixths, Sevenths, Eighths. 8. Extensions/Leger Lines. 9. Syncopation/Major Scales/ Key Signatures. 10. Scale Fingering/Primary Chords. 11. Chord Inversions/Guitar Symbols. Harmonizing/Transposing. 12. Compound Meter/Dominant Sevenths. 13. Triplets/Key Triads. Indices of Titles and Composers.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-89773-6
- Editorial: Wadsworth
- Encuadernacion: Desconocida
- Páginas: 228
- Fecha Publicación: 02/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés