John Wiley & Sons Inc Piano Exercises For Dummies

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