Piano Exercises For Dummies
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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 Open the book and find: 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 Bonus CD IncludesMore than 70 tracks all played by the authorSelected exercises from each chapterEvery performance pieceTen dance pieces from the book
Introduction. Part I: Waking Up Your Fingers. Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Practice. Chapter 2: Isolating and Exercising Your Fingers. Chapter 3: Music for Five Fingers. Part II: Developing a Strong, Supple, and Speedy Hand. Chapter 4: Passing Under and Crossing Over. Chapter 5: Playing Intervals. Chapter 6: Playing Chords Without Tension. Part III: Including Your Arms and Body. Chapter 7: Extending Your Scales. Chapter 8: Parallel and Contrary Motion. Chapter 9: Footwork: Using the Damper Pedal.Chapter 10: Jumping Across the Keyboard. Part IV: Integration and Independence. Chapter 11: Playing Arpeggios. Chapter 12: Alternating Hands. Chapter 13: Stretching Out with Octaves and Broken Octaves. Chapter 14: Chord Progressions and Cadences. Chapter 15: Trilling Thrills and Other Fancy Ornaments. Chapter 16: Maximum Independence: Challenging Rhythms and Syncopations. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 17: Ten Dances for Your Hands. Chapter 18: Ten Great Composers and Their Daily Workouts. Appendix: About the CD.
