by Martin Woodward (Author)
As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it! Items covered include: Buying your first keyboard or piano; Reading music from scratch (treble clef mainly, bass clef briefly); Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability; Important musical symbols; Your first tunes; Audio links for tunes and exercises; Key signatures and transposition; Pre-scale exercises; Major and minor scales in keyboard and notation view; Chord construction; Chord fingering; Chord charts in keyboard view; Arpeggios in keyboard and notation view; Arpeggio exercises; Playing from a Fake Book with auto-accompaniment; Over 25 tunes included and free link to more; Plus, more! After completing this book, you will have a good basic understanding of music theory as well as a good basic playing technique, paving the way for more advanced study in your chosen field - jazz, blues, pop, etc.