Learn To Play Keyboard (Book & DVD) (Alfred's Max Series)

Book & DVD. Learn To Play The Keyboard is the next best thing to having your own private teacher. No confusion, no frustration, no guesswork--just lessons that are well paced and easy to follow! Contents: Sitting at Your Instrument Sitting at the Piano Sitting at the Electronic Keyboard Hand and Finger Position Fingering The Keyboard and Pitch Finger Warm-ups on the Black Keys The Musical Alphabet and the Names of the White Keys Finger Warm-ups on the White Keys Rhythm Merrily We Roll Along Go Tell Aunt Rhody Aura Lee Time Signatures Right in Time Four Beats Left to Go Time for Both Au Claire de la Lune The Treble Staff Old Woman on the Right Mary Had a Little Lamb The Bass Staff Old Woman on the Left Frère Jacques The Grand Staff The Whole Rest Ode to Joy Frère Jacques—Right and Left Ode to Joy (with Two Hands) Merrily We Roll Along The Half Rest Lightly Row The Quarter Rest Quarter March A Restful Day A Stitch in Time Anna’s March Dynamic Markings Loud and Soft Three Ways to Play Melodic 2nds Who’s on Second? Melodic 3rds Third Dimension Harmonic 2nds and 3rds Sweet and Sour Melodic 4ths Go Fourth and Make Music! Melodic 5ths Fifth Avenue Harmonic 4ths and 5ths Jingle Bells Middle C Position Middle C Rock The Flat Sign B Flat, B Blue Walk in the Park Rockin’ All Night Long G Position Harmonic 3rds, 4ths and 5ths G Rock Tied Notes Tie Exercise Dotted Half Notes Auld Lang Syne 34 Time Signature Anna’s Waltz The Natural Sign Tied and True Blues The C Major Chord Largo (Theme from the New World Symphony) The Pickup When the Saints Go Marching In The G7 Chord Mary Ann The F Major Chord For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Eighth Notes & Eighth Rests Simple Gifts The Sharp Sign Für Elise The Dotted Quarter Note Eine Kleine Nachtmusik More Dynamic Markings Blue and True Theme from a Mozart Sonata Melodic & Harmonic 6ths Sixth Sense Melodic & Harmonic 7ths Seventh Heaven Octaves Octaboogie Half Steps & Whole Steps The Key of C Major C Major Scale Split Practicing the C Major Scale Tempo Markings C Major Scale Exercise Articulation Slide, Bounce, and Bang Ritardandos & Fermatas Good Morning to You 24 Time Signature Russian Folk Dance Primary Chords Primary Chords in the Key of C Major Primary Progression Chord Inversions Solid State The Sustain Pedal (Damper Pedal) Bach Prelude in C The Key of G Major G Major Scale Primary Chords in the Key of G Major The Key Signature All Through the Night Minuet in G A Piece in Two Keys Burleske Alouette Tempo & Expression Triplets Beautiful Dreamer 68 Time Signature Alphabeats The Irish Washerwoman The Key of F Major F Major Scale Primary Chords in the Key of F Major Joy to the World A Piece in Three Keys Three-Key Rock Repeats Minor Keys Scherzo Harmonic Minor Primary Chords in Minor Keys Symphony No. 40 Waves of the Danube The Entertainer Chord Reference Major Scales Minor Scales The Circle of Fifths