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Piano Exercises For Dummies®
Wake up those fingers, tune up your technique, and improve your playing – the fun and easy way.
(HOBOKEN, NJ) January 27, 2009 – Many music education and music theory courses require an introductory piano class. An ideal resource for students just starting out and experienced players alike, Piano Exercises For Dummies® (Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 978-0-470-38765-8; December 2008) provides exercises and drills to help piano players develop greater control, increase their agility, and ramp up their skills. From warm-ups and scales to etudes and arpeggios, the book features a wide variety of exercises and technique-building drills. Readers will find: More than 150 exercises that vary in style, key, and tempo Major and minor scales Lessons on correct hand and body posture Left-hand accompaniment patterns
As a bonus, Piano Exercises For Dummies includes an audio CD that contains more than 70 tracks played by the author, selected exercises from each chapter, ten dance pieces, and more! The handy “Cheat Sheet,” a tear-out located at the front of all For Dummies® books, includes a guide to the Circle of Fifths, the notes on the bass clef and treble clef, and common musical symbols and terms. The popular “Part of Tens” at the back of the book offers “Ten Dances for Your Hands,” as well as a list of ten top collections by great composers such as Johannes Brahms, Muzio Clementi, and Claude Debussy. About the Author: David Pearl is a pianist, composer, and arranger. He is the author of The Art of Steely Dan, Color Your Chords, and The Jazz Piano Collection, twenty-two jazz standards arranged for solo piano. He recently completed The Art of Billy Strayhorn, an in-depth exploration of five songs by one of jazz’s greatest composers. His other books include jazz transcriptions of the artists Grover
Washington, Jr., Dave Douglas and Roland Hanna, and arrangements of jazz standards, classical pieces and opera arias for piano. His new CD, Scythian Suite, is a collection of piano four-hands music recorded with his wife. He has also developed and recorded a series of piano lessons for the new online music education website WorkshopLive.
Piano Exercises For Dummies®
By David Pearl ISBN: 978-0-470-38765-8 / $22.99 U.S. / December 2008 For more music guides, check out: Piano For Dummies 978-0-7645-5105-5 Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Ed. 978-0-7645-9904-0 Guitar Exercises For Dummies 978-0-470-38766-5 To see all For Dummies titles, visit www.dummies.com!
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