The fun and easy way 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
- 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
- More than 70 tracks all played by the author
- Selected exercises from each chapter
- Every performance piece
- Ten dance pieces from the book
