Description

Keyboard Essentials is aimed at all who want to learn to play keyboards successfully in methodically thought-out teaching units with the aid of popular songs and useful tips, though tutoring or private study. It is aimed at beginners of all ages but also, for example, wind players, singers or guitarists who want to become musical ‘insiders’ and who though playing the keyboard see an introduction to improvidation, composition, harmony, etc. On the keyboard in particular, with its clearly arranged, regular structure of keys, scales, chords, and harmonic relations are presented more clearly and systematically than on any other instrument. Musicians with previous knowledge may join in at volume 2 or 3.

Contents

1. F major
2. Syncopation
3. Test 1
4. Tempo
5. The tango
6. Portato
7. Test 2
8. Intervals
9. Names of inervals
10. The D minor scales
11. Test 3
12. Dotted notes
13. The fermata
14. Test 4
15. Fill-ins
16. Intro/Ending/the swing style
17. Test 5
18. The melodic minor scale
19. The bass clef
20. 6/8 time
21. Test 6
22. SFC Chord Tables
23. Index of Songs and Pieces
24. Solutions to the Tests