SUE ANDERSON

The focus at the start of the book is on playing familiar, simple melodies by ear (CD included). Confident motor skills are developed at the keyboard using these tunes as raw material while learning more about musical structure and harmony. Later, notation is linked holistically to chord progressions and tunes that the ears and hands already know. The �keyboard skills� of playing by ear, transposing, improvising and keyboard harmony, often considered optional extras, are an integral part of learning to play the piano with this approach. The final section covers the use of the piano by singers and other musicians when teaching and studying repertoire... The book, which comes complete with a CD of music examples, also features an accompaniment resource centre, a section about scale playing made easy, and a suggested 30-week timetable... Play familiar, simple melodies by ear. For singers and instrumentalists entering higher music education who lack keyboard skills and/or basic..

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