Piano Exercises for Dummies [With CDROM]

The fun and easy way(r) to tune up your technique and improve your playing
 
Is the piano your passion? This easy-to-read guide is bursting with fun exercises designed to hone your piano-playing technique, from warm-ups and major and minor scales to octaves, chord cadences, and more. You'll play challenging rhythms, practice with different tempos, play a performance piece at the end of each chapter, and find inspiration for performing music your way.
* Warm up away from the piano - release tension in your hands, wrists, and arms and go to the piano feeling loose and comfortable
* Wake up those fingers - perfect your hand position and develop left and right hand finger independence
* Develop greater control - practice smoother finger crossovers and pass-unders for speedier scales and arpeggios
* Incorporate greater movement - play chords without tension, jump across the keyboard, and move with ease in parallel and contrary motion
* Ramp up your skills - perfect your pedaling, play grace notes, trills, and other fancy ornaments
 
Open the book and find:
* More than 150 exercises that vary in style, key, and tempo
* Major and minor scales
* Blues, diminished and chromatic scales
* Finger, rhythm, and chord progression exercises
* Left-hand accompanimentpatterns
* Performance pieces with every chapter
* Ten one-page dance pieces
 
Bonus CD Includes
 
More than 70 tracks all played by the author
 
Selected exercises from each chapter
 
Every performance piece
 
Ten dance pieces from the book