Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics (Knack: Make it Easy)

Martin, Margaret Ann

ISBN 10: 1599217813 / ISBN 13: 9781599217819

Published by Knack, 2009

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small marks or stains to the page edges/pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knack Piano for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics (Knack: Make it Easy)
• Publisher: Knack
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599217813
• ISBN 13: 9781599217819
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 748.4 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano.

 

Knack Piano for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with full-color photographs and musical notation. The book will teach readers everything a beginner should know about the instrument itself―the parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianos―and then provide the basics of reading piano music and playing. Download play-along audio tracks at knackbooks.com/piano.

   The book will include:

     * An explanation of how the piano works.

     * An exploration of the instrument, sitting correctly, playing all over the keyboard on   

         the black keys.

     * Finding familiar tunes on the piano.

     * Music notation, where it comes from, directions (up and down) on the keyboard and

         on the music page.

Lessons will be geared toward achievable results for the reader without any prior knowledge of music, but also contain sidebars on various styles and techniques for the more advanced reader. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to play some basic songs, including some that will be provided in the Appendix.

About the Author

Margaret Ann Martin graduated with a Masters Degree in Piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.  She has been teaching piano and composition at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven for more than twenty years.