The complete idiot's guide to piano exercises, by Karen Berger
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The complete idiot's guide to piano exercises, by Karen Berger
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-242) and index
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Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The complete idiot's guide to piano exercises
Nature of contents
bibliography
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617565199
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by Karen Berger
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The complete idiot's guide to
Summary
Having good dexterity, building independent finger strength, and learning proper technique are essential to mastering the piano. This guide teaches you pedaling, hand crossovers, virtuoso arpeggios and ornaments, scales, chords, rhythms, and so much more
Table of contents
The basics. Posture and position ; Basic fingering ; Starting to move -- Moving along. Major pentascales and chords ; Minor pentascales and chords ; Finger gymnastics ; More about chords -- Scaling the heights. Minor scales ; Major scales ; Music à la mode ; Singing the blues ; Good grief, more scales -- Practice skills. I've got rhythm ; Expressive exercises ; One brain, two hands ; Advanced fingering ; Variations on a theme by Hanon -- Advanced skills. Teaching your fingers to fly ; Full arpeggios ; Scale Olympics: swifter, higher, stronger ; Advanced rhythms ; Ornamentation
Target audience
generaladult
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Idiot's guide to piano exercisesPiano exercises
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