On the other hand, a musical scale is more than an ordinal scale; there is more to a musical scale than the order of the pitches, low to high. • Count up 30 keys to get to middle C. • Once on the middle, count 4 keys to reach E (the second note of the C chord). Front Cover. Level 1 Textbook. buy our piano method books. FREE shipping available. This book attempts to fill in those gaps. 86 individual exercises are presented in five different keys. How to Play Piano Chords – Playing a C Chord • Turn on the keyboard by pressing the button titled 'Power' or 'On/Off'. or graduates of Pre-Level 1, Blast Off with Piano, or Blast Off with Piano Junior. Scales, Arpeggios, and Cadences for Piano Alt ernative. No. It’s surprising, because the simple method of counting half and whole steps can enhance understanding of music scales, chords and intervals, as well as “music keys” and “modes.” I am a beginner-level player, not a trained pianist. The method this book will teach you requires you to know a few intervals. PDF Format - 283 pages - 240 Piano exercises There are a total of 430 finger exercises in this book. weight or volume. Here I've organised them in groups of fingering rather than keys. D Major scale … on Amazon. You can printout the PDF below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. Writing a book which is suitable for every different device is nigh on impossible especially when using music graphics; certainly the ePub and Mobi versions are not ideal for these although I believe that I have succeeded to a great degree and probably First of all, you’ll need to know half-steps. The scales are used often for composing melodies and for improvisation. There are 3 groups and it's easier to learn a particular finger pattern and apply it to the group rather than learn each scale separately. 2MB. These are the four most common scales in pop and rock music. Neverthless, in studying the technical principles, we should never lose sight of the artistic aim, as this is the whole point of the exercise. G Major scale G Major arpeggio G Major broken chords . IJM 60 Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. Period: Modern: Piece Style Modern: Instrumentation piano Scales, Arpeggios and Broken Chords for Piano Dion Kara 12 Strings Music School Images: 12 Strings (top); healingdream (bottom) / FreeDigitalPhotos.net. Basically from any one key to the next key is a half-step – regardless or whether that key is a white or black key. The exercises in this book use the major scale, pentatonic scale, blues scale, and chromatic scale. 2011 Composer Time Period Comp. Half-steps are the smallest interval. Level 1 Textbook. Major Scales C Major scale C Major arpeggio C Major broken chords . the subject (books, monographs, websites) tend to under-emphasize the concept of half steps and whole steps. 1MB. Lesson 21: pages 163 to 168. 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