Piano for Beginners 6th ED - 2016 UK
At the piano Here we’ll show you the correct way to sit at the piano Top tip Don’t slump A tendency of beginners is to immediate ...
Getting started 01 Find Middle C on the right hand With your right hand, locate three white keys in the middle of the piano surr ...
03 Find Middle C with the left hand Again find Middle C, but this time place your left thumb on it. To the left of this key the ...
Getting started 01 Black key technique The first thing to get right is your technique. You don’t really want to use your thumb o ...
03 Play with the left hand Let’s try the same technique with the left hand. Place your left thumb on Middle C. Now play B with y ...
Getting started P edals on a piano are used to create sounds that you could not otherwise achieve with your hands alone. There a ...
What the pedals do Find out when and how to use the pedals Separate pedals A great option if you play a keyboard Many modern ele ...
“Notation is a way of composers expressing to musicians how to play a piece of music through both pitch and rhythm” Understandin ...
Give it a try Look out for this logo on each page, as it means that an audio and/or video file is available online to help you m ...
Understanding theory What is musical notation? Throughout this section we will begin to look at what musical notation is, how to ...
10 Te n u to A single horizontal bold line above or below a type of musical note is a tenuto marking. This explains to us that w ...
Understanding theory The different staves The clef dictates which stave is which S taves (or staffs) are some of the most import ...
Introducing the notes Notes and their lengths in simple time N otes are the foundation on which Western musical notation is base ...
Understanding theory I f you want to become a successful pianist, you should be able to read musical notation. You should be abl ...
Usually, notes written on the treble clef stave will be played by your right hand, and they often (but not always) carry the mai ...
Understanding theory It might not be the star of the show, but if composers ignored the left-hand parts of piano music it would ...
As with musical notes, sometimes in music we need times of silence. These are represented by different symbols called rests Rest ...
Understanding theory A time signature will always be found at the beginning of a piece of music directly after the key signature ...
“We have used a combination of both crotchets/quarter notes and minims/half notes to total the four beats required” Beats in a b ...
Understanding theory K ey signatures are shown at the beginning of a piece of music and are either a series of sharps or flats. ...
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