Piano for Pleasure: A Basic Course for Adults - Softcover

This is a wonderfully accessible introductory text for adult beginners. Students begin playing piano on page one, and the authors provide a wealth of interesting and accessible music selections for adult students to play. The book includes music for ensembles of two or more performers and encourages students to improvise on the keyboard and to compose songs of their own. Contents: (main headings only) *Listening/dynamics/black keys *Simple note values/key names/black key groups *Meter signatures/rests/line 7 space notes/steps 7 skips/second & thirds *Recap *Treble & bass/grand staff/4th & 5th/half steps & whole steps/sharps & flats *Dotted rhythms/phrases *Upbeats/major pentascales *Recap *Extension/triads/ledger lines *Syncopation/6ths, 7ths, 8ths/major scales/key signatures *Scale fingering/preliminary chords/harmonizing/transposing *Chord inversions/guitar symbols *16th notes/interval quality/dominant 7ths *Compound meter/key triads *Recap *Triplets/primary chords in minor *Supplementary repertoire