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) 1. Listening/dynamics/black keys 2. Simple note values/key names/black key groups 3. Meter signatures/rests/line 7 space notes/steps 7 skips/second & thirds 4. Recap 5. Treble & bass/grand staff/4th & 5th/half steps & whole steps/sharps & flats 6. Dotted rhythms/phrases 7. Upbeats/major pentascales 8. Recap 9. Extension/triads/ledger lines 10. Syncopation/6ths, 7ths, 8ths/major scales/key signatures 11. Scale fingering/preliminary chords/harmonizing/transposing 12. Recap 13. Whole Tone Scale/Chord inversions/guitar symbols 14. 16th notes/interval quality/dominant 7ths 15. Compound meter/key triads 16. Recap 17. Triplets/primary chords in minor 18. Two handed accompaniments/Black key group scales/minor inversions/Lead sheets/Improvising blues 19. Recap 20. Supplementary repertoire