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The go-to reference for aspiring pianists and keyboard players
Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you don't know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory, and applies it to playing the piano and keyboard. And if you've been playing for awhile—or took lessons when you were a child but haven't played since—you can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing, or use the book as a refresher course.
This indispensible resource combines the best of For Dummies books, including Piano For Dummies, Keyboard For Dummies, Music Theory For Dummies, and Piano Exercises For Dummies to get you up and running in no time. The handy reference helps you to master the traditional black-and-white keys and gives you an understanding of the possibilities that unfold when those black-and-whites are connected to state-of-the-art music technology.
- Discover the secrets for becoming a master on the piano and keyboard
- Improve your skills with a wealth of easy-to-apply piano exercises
- Tap into your creativity and get the lowdown on composing an original song
- Find out how to use keyboards anywhere using external speakers, amps, home stereos, computers, and tablets
Dive right in! This comprehensive book offers the most complete learning experience for aspiring pianists, keyboard enthusiasts, and students of music.
- Sales Rank: #35682 in Books
- Published on: 2014-04-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.22" w x 7.40" l, 1.85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 648 pages
From the Back Cover
4 BOOKS IN 1
- Piano For Dummies
- Piano Exercises For Dummies
- Keyboard For Dummies
- Music Theory For Dummies
Jump into playing piano and keyboard with this complete, easy-to-use guide
If you’ve always wanted to play piano or keyboard, but didn’t know where to start, this book is the resource you need! With four hands-on books all wrapped up in one, you’ll get a complete guide to playing like a pro, from understanding theory and reading music to exploring different genres and using practice exercises to improve quickly!
- Meet the keyboard — get started by finding out how to choose an instrument, set it up, and care for it
- A different language — dive into the basics of the language of music, including notes, beats, measures, time signatures, and more
- Do it with style — explore the different styles of music, including jazz, classical, and blues
- Practice makes perfect — use the practice exercises to brush up on technique, master scales, and more
Open the book and find:
- Tips on choosing an instrument and caring for it
- The scoop on reading notes and understanding beats
- How to begin playing, one hand at a time
- An exploration of various genres of music
- Exercises for developing technique
- The skinny on electronic keyboard effects
- Tips on using software to play along with recordings
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Packed with info. Covers all of the bases for a piano student.
By Michelle Rayburn
I will preface this review by saying I am a piano teacher, and I know a thing or two about teaching and about pianos and keyboards. This book is packed with info. There is also online tools that can be accessed with the URLs throughout the book next to a symbol for "Play This." The online tracks and clips have audio related to the teaching topic.
There are also some online articles and cheat sheets available.
The first part of the book is about keyboards, purchasing, learning features, posture, and the mechanics of playing.
The second part features beginning music lessons that covers the technical stuff that is part of reading sheet music. Counting note values, learning the letter names of notes, and getting to know the layout of sheet music is important. Some beginners may be hoping to play actual music sooner and may get frustrated with the pace. This is a very complete summary of music theory. Where this differs from traditional piano lesson methods is that it gives all of the theory up front and the student must study it almost like one would school homework. In traditional lessons, we would cover these concepts gradually, along with learning to play notes on the piano at the same time. It's more satisfying for most students to play keys sooner rather than later.
The third part of the book begins to teach how to play. If a student can remember the notes learned in the other part of the book, he or she can begin to play from the music notes in this part. However, it may take a lot of flipping back and forth between this and the previous section to put it all together. It moves quickly through different hand positions, where traditional lessons would camp out for a few weeks on one position before introducing a new one.
In addition, this section covers more theory, such as scale degrees. This would normally be introduced quite a ways into piano lessons, rather than at the beginning. Covers key signatures, minor scales, intervals, and the circle of 5ths, for those who know musical lingo and want to know if it's covered in the book. It also covers the formation of chords and chord theory.
In the 4th part of the book, it covers dynamics, tempo, pedal, and other special artistic accents. It teaches how to fill out the left hand accompaniment using the right hand chords, or a lead sheet. It teaches blues chord progressions, country style and more in this section.
In the 5th part of the book, it teaches technique. These are exercises to get the fingers cooperating and some of them are like Hanon's exercises or Finger Power books that get the hand-eye coordination going, and improves technique. This is a larger part of the book than some sections.
The 6th part of the book covers some special effects that can be added with electric keyboards. It talks about mixing and digital recording. Also covers MIDI.
My analysis: For the very self-motivated person, this might be a potential way to teach oneself how to play piano, but there is still a lot more that a real live teacher would include. I'm in favor of teaching oneself, so I'm not biased in that way. I'm just worried that this is a bit overwhelming for a beginner.
However, this is also a book packed full of the most important technical information a piano player would need. If I was studying for a college entrance exam, I might use something like this as a means of checking to see I understood the basics. It would also be a great handbook to have alongside traditional lessons.
I found it a little odd when in the second chapter, the authors featured a whole page of photos of electric pianos that were popular in the1960s, 70s and 80s. And then there was so little about the modern digital keyboards that most piano players will use. Just my opinion. At first I thought they might be severaly outdated in their information. But, after that, the book gave a very complete instructional process for buying and getting to know a keyboard in the next chapter. That referred to modern keyboards, so they redeemed my opinion in chapter 3.
All in all, I would recommend this book for my students as a handbook to use along with our lesson materials.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Sometimes, less is more
By Eric Sedensky
As a musician of varying sorts for over forty years, including a church organist, rock keyboardist, and now would-be jazz pianist, my experience with keyboards in general and pianos in specific is intermediate to advanced. Still, I'm always eager to learn more and having only played piano for seven years now, that is usually where I focus my energies of late, both studying piano music, and playing and performing on the piano. For that reason and as luck would have it, not only have I read three of the four books contained in this one, I still have two of them in my possession. That made it easy for me to compare this "4 in 1" book with the originals and size it up in what is (I hope) a meaningful manner.
The first thing I noticed is although this book claims to be four books in one, the publishers did not simply combine the existing books using their individual volume formats. A serious attempt to edit and consolidate was made with this book, making it flow very smoothly while also making it much more comprehensive and useful. While it is true that the bulk of the material is more or less re-printed as is, nearly all of the material has revamped titles and overlapping material has been shortened or eliminated. Since I could not refer to all the originals (and indeed, had not read the music theory volume until I got this book), I can't say for sure how much of each book made it into this compendium, but I can say that the material is very well-organized now, and does not rely on any one book (or two) at the expense of the others. Overall, the information is stacked and dense, but it remains cleverly laid out, marked with various "dummies" icons, and maintains all the usefulness these books are known for. For somebody new to keyboards and pianos but serious about learning more and becoming a proficient player, it will be hard to find a better book than this for a starting point.
One huge difficulty is the performance pieces and printed music. As I said in my review of Piano Exercises For Dummies, the musical print is too small for my 50-ish eyes, and I resorted to transcribing the pieces I wanted to play to a music program so that they could be printed out in a much larger, clearer print. Unfortunately, this compendium volume has gone to even smaller pages but maintained the wide margin format of the original. The result is the music pages are even smaller than before, and for me, much less approachable. Also, now that they are organized differently so that the exercises that teach various techniques are moved to where those techniques are explained and illustrated, the performance pieces are scattered all around the book. Anyone trying to play the music pieces with therefore have to deal with the glued spine binding not lying flat, and even breaking the spine will not affect the pieces appearing dozens of pages away. That is to say, the Dummies series' weakest point is now even weaker, and the printed music pages in this book are the hardest yet to use.
In the end, I think a lot of readers will be better served by this compendium volume, as the point of the dummies series has always been to make a good start, and now, someone thinking about taking up keyboards, piano, or music in general will be able to learn about all three and make an informed decision about what to pursue. At the very least, having all this information in one volume is easier to carry around, simpler to work through, and cheaper. I wasn't sure I could give this five stars because of the tiny printed music pages, but I think there are enough work arounds for that, and I also think the efforts of the editors to provide a tighter and more resourceful manual that even though it is slimmed down, contains the crucial information about its subject should be applauded, so I decided that five stars was the way to go.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent resource to have - whether you are a 'dummy' or not!
By MS
While the first section of the book is really intended for 'dummies' - things like what to look for when buying a piano/digital keyboard, the later sections cover all the required material all the way from beginner to an intermediate level. There are several things I like about this book and should have given 5 stars for it, but:
1. End of the day, you can't learn everything from a book - need direct practice and some instruction time from a professional teacher (unless you are a born genius, of course!). This book can take you only so far. After that you still need to practice a lot and also get some face time with some pros/teachers.
2. More importantly, I feel there are less exercises and simpler examples at the beginning. The toughest part of learning something new is in the basic stages. That part should be really taken slow, with lots and lots examples/exercises. You can never overdo that. While this book does try to cover a lot of ground, still not enough for the early stage, IMHO.
3. Nitpicking: the print for the music could have been a little bit bigger.
In spite of that, this is one of the 'must have' books you should have handy, as it provides lot of valuable information, pointers to references for further learning, and website access to all the songs for you to listen and practice while reading this book.
For those of you who want to learn without a teacher, there are some software in the market, that can connect your notebook to a digital piano/keyboard through USB/MIDI cables, and such software can guide you real time with playing songs, track if you pressed the right key or not, within the tempo or not, etc. I believe such a software along with this book will get me more complete instruction than otherwise.
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