Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Book 1: Piano & Keyboard 101
  • Chapter 1: Warming Up to the Piano and Keyboard
    • What’s So Special About the Piano?
    • Why People Learn to Play the Piano (and Why They Often Quit)
    • Getting to Know the Piano as an Instrument
    • Understanding the Language of Music
    • The Best Way to Play
    • What You Already Know About Playing the Piano
    • Electronic Keyboards and other Keyboard Instruments
    • Making the Most of Your Keyboard’s Basic Features
    • Delving into More Advanced Digital Features
    • Practicing with and without Help
  • Chapter 2:
    • Acoustic Pianos
    • Electro-Mechanical Keyboards
    • Electronic Keyboards
    • Appreciating How Digital Keyboards Make So Many Sounds
    • Considering Key Feel and Response
    • Paying Attention to Polyphony
  • Chapter 3: Choosing and Buying Your Keyboard
    • First Things First: Acoustic or Electric (or Both)?
    • Looking At What’s Important for the Beginner
    • Playing Well With Others and Alone
    • Picking the Perfect Acoustic Piano
    • Selecting a Digital Keyboard That Lasts
    • Before You Drive It Off the Lot: Sealing the Deal
    • The MIDI Places You Can Go
  • Chapter 4: The Setup and Care of Your Instrument
    • Unboxing Your New Keyboard
    • Providing a Good Place to Put It
    • Making It Shine
    • Calling In a Pro for Tuning, Check-Ups, and Serious Repairs
    • Setting Up Your Keyboard
    • Hook Me Up: Keyboard Connections
    • Protecting Your Investment: Care and Upkeep
    • Solving Minor Technical Problems
  • Chapter 5: Getting Comfy at the Keyboard
    • Blake’s E-Z Key Finder
    • What Your Parents Never Told You About Posture
    • It’s All in the Hands
    • Pedal Power: Getting Your Feet in on the Action
• Book 2: Understanding Theory and the Language of Music
  • Chapter 1: Looking at Notes and Beats
    • Meeting the Beat
    • Recognizing Notes and Note Values
    • Extending Notes with Dots and Ties
    • Mixing All the Note Values Together
  • Chapter 2: Stopping for a Rest
    • Getting to Know the Rests
    • Practicing Beats with Notes and Rests
  • Chapter 3: Tempo, Measures, and Time Signatures
    • Playing Fast and Slow: Tempo
    • Grouping Beats into Measures
    • Counting Out Common Time Signatures
  • Chapter 4: Navigating Sheet Music
    • Meeting the Staff, Clefs, and Notes
    • Identifying Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals on the Staff
    • Musical Punctuation: Bar Lines
  • Chapter 5: Varying Beats and Rhythms
    • Getting a Jump on the Start: Pickup Beats and Measures
    • Adding Time to Your Notes with Ties and Dots
    • Playing Offbeat Rhythms
    • Playing Songs with Challenging Rhythms
• Book 3: Beginning to Play
  • Chapter 1: Playing a Melody
    • Let Your Fingers Do the Walking
    • Positions, Everyone!
    • Cross Your Fingers and Hope It Works
    • Playing Melodies in the Right Hand
  • Chapter 2: Working with Scales
    • Building a Scale, Step-by-Step
    • Introducing Major Scales
    • Introducing Minor Scales
    • Checking Out Blues Scales
    • Playing Songs Made of Scales
  • Chapter 3: Adding the Left Hand
    • Exploring the Keyboard’s West Side
    • Left-Hand Melodies
    • South-Paw Scales
    • Accompaniment Patterns
    • Adding the Left Hand to the Right Hand
    • Playing Songs with Both Hands
  • Chapter 4: Examining Form: Melody, Harmony, and Song Form
    • Shaping the Melody
    • Measuring Melodic Intervals
    • Combining Notes for Harmonic Intervals
    • Working with Musical Phrases and Periods
    • Linking Musical Parts to Create Forms
    • Playing Songs with More Harmony
  • Chapter 5: Keys, Key Signatures, and the Circle of Fifths
    • Home Sweet Home Key
    • The Circle of Fifths
    • Reviewing All the Key Signatures
    • Playing Songs with Key Signatures
  • Chapter 6: Building Chords to Accompany Melodies
    • The Anatomy of a Triad
    • Starting Out with Major Chords
    • Branching Out with Minor Chords
    • Exploring Other Types of Chords
    • Adding the Seventh for Four-Note Chords
    • Reading Chord Symbols
    • Relating Chords to a Scale or Key Signature
    • Rearranging the Order of the Notes: Chord Inversions
    • Playing Songs with Chords
• Book 4: Refining Your Technique and Exploring Styles
  • Chapter 1: Adding Effects and Flair to Your Piano Playing
    • Dynamically Speaking
    • Articulate the Positive
    • Control the Tempo
    • Pedal Power
    • Touching on Grace Notes
    • Just Trillin’
    • Don’t Miss the Gliss
    • Trembling Tremolos
    • Dressing Up Your Songs
  • Chapter 2: Getting into the Groove
    • Great Left-Hand Accompaniment Patterns
    • Applying Great Intros and Finales
    • Playing Songs with Left-Hand Grooves
  • Chapter 3: Going Classical
    • Counterpoint as a Classical Revelation
    • Sussing Out the Sonata
    • Rounding Up the Rondo
    • Figuring Out the Fugue
    • Combining Forms into a Symphony
    • Observing Other Classical Forms
  • Chapter 4: Perusing Popular Genres and Forms
    • Feeling the Blues
    • Having Fun with Rock and Pop
    • Pop! Goes the Piano
    • A Little Bit Country
    • Improvising with Jazz
    • Soul Searching
• Book 5: Exercises: Practice, Practice, Practice
  • Chapter 1: Developing Hand Technique
    • Passing Over and Crossing Under
    • Playing Intervals
    • Playing Chords Without Tension
  • Chapter 2: Extending Your Scales
    • The 12 Major, Harmonic Minor, and Melodic Minor Scales
    • The Three Diminished Scales
    • The Chromatic Scale
    • The 12 Blues Scales
    • Gaining Greater Command of Scales
    • Performance Piece: “Variations on ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’”
  • Chapter 3: Improving Finger Coordination and Footwork
    • Parallel Movement at the Octave
    • Parallel Movement at the Interval
    • Contrary Motion Away from the Center
    • Contrary Motion Toward the Center
    • Combination Movement Exercise
    • Performance Piece: “Turkey in the Straw”
    • Using the Damper Pedal
    • Pedaling Chords
    • Uniform Pedal Changes on One Line
    • Varied Pedal Changes on One Line
    • Pedaling for Effect
    • Sustaining as the Hands Move
    • Performance Piece: “Simple Gifts”
  • Chapter 4: Jumping Across the Keyboard
    • Jumping and Landing Accuracy
    • Jumping with Both Hands Together
    • Left-Hand Accompaniment Patterns
    • Performance Piece: “Lily Pad Rag”
  • Chapter 5: Exercising with Arpeggios and Alternating Hands
    • Finger Jumps
    • The Arpeggiator
    • Broken Chords
    • Performance Piece: “Harp Heaven”
    • Playing with Alternating Hands: Hand-to-Hand Scale Handoffs
  • Chapter 6: Stepping Up to Octaves and Chord Progressions
    • Opening Up to the Octave
    • Octave Jumps
    • Octave Chords
    • Performance Piece: “Schumann’s Octave Workout”
    • Seventh Chord Progressions
    • Chord Cadences, Familiar Patterns
    • Extended Chord Progressions
• Book 6: Exploring Electronic Keyboard Technology
  • Chapter 1: Choosing Sounds and Ef fects
    • First Things First: Understanding Some Important Terminology
    • Knowing and Using Effects
    • Meeting the Main Types of Effects
    • Choosing Effects for Each Type Of Sound
  • Chapter 2: Adding Accompaniment, Rhythm Patterns, and Arpeggiation
    • Getting Your Groove On: Working with Onboard Drum Rhythms
    • Playing with Accompaniment
    • Letting the Keyboard Make the Choices for You
    • Using Some Fancy Extras
    • Exploring Arpeggiation
    • Exploring More Arpeggiator Features
    • Trying Out Some Different Sounds: Matching Sounds and Arp Patterns
    • Adding Fun Sound and Effects Tweaks
  • Chapter 3: Recording and Editing Your Sounds
    • Audio Recording versus MIDI Recording
    • Capturing What You Hear As It Happens: One-Pass Recording
    • Recording Multitrack MIDI
    • Refining Your MIDI Recordings
    • Trying Some Common Sound Edits
    • Getting Your Song out of the Keyboard and into the World
  • Chapter 4: Using Onboard Learning Systems
    • Working with Built-In Songs
    • Introducing Casio’s Step-up Lesson System
    • Exploring Yamaha’s Educational Suite Lesson System
  • Chapter 5: Playing Along with Recordings and Using Music Software
    • Exploring the Advantages of Playing Along
    • Connecting an Audio Device to Your Keyboard to Hear Both Together
    • Getting in Tune
    • Figuring Out a Song You Don’t Know
    • The Computer Connection: Using Software to Enhance Your Music-Making
    • Connecting Your Keyboard to Your Computer
    • Hooking Up to Your iPad
    • Exploring Popular Types of Music Software
• Appendix: Accessing the Audio Tracks
  • Discovering What’s on the Audio Tracks
  • Customer Care
• Index
• About the Authors
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement

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