Meridee Winters Chord Crash Course: A Teach Yourself Piano Book for Older Beginners and Adults - Softcover

Winters, Meridee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943821003 ISBN 13: 9781943821006

Publisher: Meridee Winters Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Our brains are wired to learn by patterns – finally, a music book that teaches that way.

Play piano without the struggle (and without reading music) using the power of chords and patterns! Do you want to accompany yourself as a singer, songwriter or performer? Have you always wanted to play an instrument but don’t know where to start? Are you a music instructor who is looking for a way to liven up lessons or teach popular music?

Meridee's Chord Crash Course series has made playing music simple, accessible and fun for beginners across the globe. (Are you shopping for a younger beginner? Meridee's Chord Quest series uses the same hit chord approach but is geared for younger learners!)

Meridee Winters is an accomplished author, educator, musician, school director and pioneer in the world of creativity and music education.Her more than 50 music books and learning resources have sold tens of thousands of copies and earned her a devoted global following of teachers, students and musicians.

Chord Crash course is the first and most popular of Meridee’s innovative books, known for its playful attitude and trailblazing “learn by pattern and shape” approach. (And it doesn’t require you to read music!) It’s this unique approach that allows learners to play famous chord progressions within their first few hours of learning and lead sheets to their favorite songs within just a few chapters. Chord Crash Course has become a hit with self-taught musicians, with music teachers looking to boost progress and with professional performers expanding their skill set. This makes sense, given the book’s recording studio origins. Meridee initially developed this method to empower recording artists who were unable to accompany themselves.

Through simple diagrams and step by-step instruction, you will learn music’s most powerful and universal patterns, including chords, arpeggios, intervals, Alberti bass, rock rhythms, pop progressions and so much more. Students can then graduate to Chord Crash Course Book 2 for higher level chord theory, including seventh chords and sus chords.

In this book you’ll learn:

• Chords and Arpeggios - the building blocks of music
• Popular chords progressions that will allow you to play your favorite songs
• How to play from a lead sheet
• Music concepts like intervals, major, minor and transposition – explained simply!

Chord Crash Course is a great standalone introduction to playing piano or supplement to any method.

Chord Crash Course is a part of the innovative Meridee Winters Music Method. Learn more at www.merideewintersmusicmethod.com

About this title

About the Author

Meridee Winters is a professional educator, musician, author and director/owner of a successful Philadelphia area music school. Meridee began her journey as an educator teaching elementary students in a Florida public school, where she discovered the curriculum and school system left little room for divergence and creativity. She made the bold decision to leave and attend graduate school to study Music Composition, eventually starting her own private music school. Today, that school has spent two decades introducing thousands of students to not just music, but to Meridee's trailblazing method that encourages creativity, play and higher level thinking with each lesson. As a composer and professional musician, Meridee has instructed at all levels -- from professional recording artists working on albums to computer music classes in the recording studio, and from young beginners taking their first steps on their musical path to intermediate students writing their first songs. Meridee is a dedicated advocate of creative intelligence whose foremost passion is empowering creative and authentic self-expression in each individual. She now spends her time developing new materials and books to nurture these. She does her work as an author, as well as director of the school, from her home in Delaware County, PA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Meridee Winters Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943821003
• ISBN 13: 9781943821006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124