- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Alpha Books; 2 edition (Aug 17 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0028641558
- ISBN-13: 978-0028641553
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.7 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 676 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #986,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
An updated practical guide for anyone interested in learning (or relearning) to play the piano.
New music and exercises added! More how-to coverage and a new section just for practicing!
Includes coverage on the care and feeding of electronic keyboards and equipment.
Author has proven himself with The Complete Idiots Guide® brand and has written several other books on the subject. Whether you are an aspiring concert pianist or just want to play keyboards in your own band, The Complete Idiots Guide® to Playing Piano and Electronic Keyboards, Second Edition will give you just what you need to know. From reading music and learning chords, to understanding music notation or buying an instrument, expert author Brad Hill tells gets you started. With more music and expanded practice sessions, the new edition of this already popular book will be a necessity for the beginner. Learn posture, positionings, fingerings, notations, drills, and advice from the masters. Also, learn how to fake your way through accompaniment, stay motivated to practice and advance to the intermediate level.
Brad Hill is a seasoned piano performer, teacher, and writer. He has written dozens of books on keyboard playing and MIDI, and has recorded several albums of original keyboard music. His newest book, Going Digital- A Musicians Guide to Technology, was published in December 2000 by Schirmer Books. He is based in Princeton, NJ.
0028641558
New music and exercises added! More how-to coverage and a new section just for practicing!
Includes coverage on the care and feeding of electronic keyboards and equipment.
Author has proven himself with The Complete Idiots Guide® brand and has written several other books on the subject. Whether you are an aspiring concert pianist or just want to play keyboards in your own band, The Complete Idiots Guide® to Playing Piano and Electronic Keyboards, Second Edition will give you just what you need to know. From reading music and learning chords, to understanding music notation or buying an instrument, expert author Brad Hill tells gets you started. With more music and expanded practice sessions, the new edition of this already popular book will be a necessity for the beginner. Learn posture, positionings, fingerings, notations, drills, and advice from the masters. Also, learn how to fake your way through accompaniment, stay motivated to practice and advance to the intermediate level.
Brad Hill is a seasoned piano performer, teacher, and writer. He has written dozens of books on keyboard playing and MIDI, and has recorded several albums of original keyboard music. His newest book, Going Digital- A Musicians Guide to Technology, was published in December 2000 by Schirmer Books. He is based in Princeton, NJ.
0028641558
About the Author
Brad Hill is a seasoned piano performer, teacher, and writer. He has written dozens of books on keyboard playing and MIDI, and has recorded several albums of original keyboard music. His newest book, Going Digital: A Musician's Guide to Technology, was published in December 2000 by Schirmer Books. He is based in Princeton, NJ.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well-written, but poorly proofread!,
By Robert Holder (Westminster, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Idiot Guide Playing Piano (Paperback)
THE VERDICT: Although otherwise well-written, the 2002 edition has errors. Perhaps a corrected edition (or at least a page of addenda & corrections) will be published soon?This book is very informative, and written in a style that is accessible to the beginner. The main body of the text explains things clearly and directly, and the background information is mostly presented in sidebars so that it is possible to read the text without getting bogged down in tangential details, but those details are there if you want them. It's an enjoyable, fun book. UNFORTUNATELY, the actual musical notation is full of errors! The book has text explaining music and the piano, and this text is accompanied by music in the familiar form of notes on the musical staff. But the staff has errors, either in the notation or in that it depicts a different song than is described in the text! For example, on page 97, "Here Comes The Bride" has dotted-quarter notes that should be dotted-eigth notes. On page 116, the text describes the song "My Favorite Things", but the song depicted on the staff is "Greensleeves". There are other errors as well. If you have some musical background already, you can recover from these errors and figure out what is supposed to be happening, but this book might cause excessive confusion in a younger student who is already not quite so enthusiastic with their piano lessons! :-)
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3.8 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 62 of 62 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well-written, but poorly proofread!,
By Robert Holder - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Idiot Guide Playing Piano (Paperback)
THE VERDICT: Although otherwise well-written, the 2002 edition has errors. Perhaps a corrected edition (or at least a page of addenda & corrections) will be published soon?This book is very informative, and written in a style that is accessible to the beginner. The main body of the text explains things clearly and directly, and the background information is mostly presented in sidebars so that it is possible to read the text without getting bogged down in tangential details, but those details are there if you want them. It's an enjoyable, fun book. UNFORTUNATELY, the actual musical notation is full of errors! The book has text explaining music and the piano, and this text is accompanied by music in the familiar form of notes on the musical staff. But the staff has errors, either in the notation or in that it depicts a different song than is described in the text! For example, on page 97, "Here Comes The Bride" has dotted-quarter notes that should be dotted-eigth notes. On page 116, the text describes the song "My Favorite Things", but the song depicted on the staff is "Greensleeves". There are other errors as well. If you have some musical background already, you can recover from these errors and figure out what is supposed to be happening, but this book might cause excessive confusion in a younger student who is already not quite so enthusiastic with their piano lessons! :-) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
sigh,
By Paul M. Higgins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
Aggressively unhelpful; meandering, rambling style with terrible jokes, terrible prose, and worst of all, a dearth of actual practice lessons. The majority of the book is taken up with third-rate 'scholarship' about the history of piano-related instruments, or with minutiae about electronic keyboards. Avoid at all costs.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano (2nd Edition),
By Emilia Granton "novice keyboarder" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Complete Idiot Guide Playing Piano (Paperback)
The book is great!!! I have limited musical knowledge (what I learned in grammar school) and this book helped me regain what I had previously learned and allowed me to build on it by creating a fun, relaxed atmosphere and always with humour. Thanks.
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