An Easy Guide to Reading Music, Playing Your First Piece, and Enjoying Your Piano.
Providing an all-in-one approach for beginners to piano, this book includes a brief history of the piano and a look at its inner workings. It introduces theory and exercises to develop fingering skills, information on buying a piano and finding a teacher, and explanations of essential terms.
This book is invaluable for those wishing to learn how to play the piano. It includes practical exercises and extracts from carefully chosen works that will have you laying confidently in no time.
Covers:
- Historical overview of the instrument
- Introduction to theory
- Posture, practice and techniques
- Piano music through the ages