Piano Exercises For Dummies - Softcover

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