All About Piano: A Fun and Simple Guide to Playing Piano

All About Piano: A Fun and Simple Guide to Playing Piano by pianist, composer, and author Mark Harrison is a piano and keyboard instruction book combining music reading, playing by ear, improvisation, performance guidance, and songs from a wide range of musical styles. It is designed for pianists and keyboard players who want to explore written music and creative playing while building a varied repertoire.

The book presents step-by-step music reading instruction, introductions to pianos and other keyboard instruments, background on different musical styles, performing tips, five complete songs, and more than 40 song excerpts. The included online audio provides 70 demonstration and play-along tracks that can be streamed or downloaded using the unique code inside the book. PLAYBACK+ functions allow users to slow audio without changing pitch, create loop points, change keys, and adjust left-right panning.

The combination of reading, listening, improvising, and playing familiar music gives practice several complementary dimensions. Popular, jazz, classical, blues, rock, country, and traditional selections provide musical variety, while information about piano makes, models, care, and maintenance adds useful context beyond the music itself.

Song List
All My Loving * All The Things You Are * Allegro, K. 545 * Alouette * Angel * Auld Lang Syne * Baby Look At You * Beauty And The Beast * Before I Get Old * Bennie And The Jets * Bird Of Prey * Blue Bop * Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) * C-Jam Blues * Can You Feel The Love Tonight * Chicago Breakup * Clair De Lune * Come Sail Away * Crazy * Dry Bones * Easy Going * Every Night I Have The Blues * Everybody Wants To Rule The World * Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) * For He's A Jolly Good Fellow * Für Elise, WoO 59 * Go Tell Aunt Rhody * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Gymnopedie No. 1 * Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here * Hand Prints * and more.