As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it!
Items covered include:
- Buying your first keyboard or piano;
- Reading music from scratch (treble clef mainly, bass clef briefly);
- Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability;
- Important musical symbols;
- Your first tunes;
- Audio links for tunes and exercises;
- Key signatures and transposition;
- Pre-scale exercises;
- Major and minor scales in keyboard and notation view;
- Chord construction;
- Chord fingering;
- Chord charts in keyboard view;
- Arpeggios in keyboard and notation view;
- Arpeggio exercises;
- Playing from a Fake Book with auto-accompaniment;
- Over 25 tunes included and free link to more;
- Plus, more!
After completing this book, you will have a good basic understanding of music theory as well as a good basic playing technique, paving the way for more advanced study in your chosen field - jazz, blues, pop, etc.
The following songbook in digital (printable format) is also included FREE!
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