Tune your technique and improve your playing

The piano can create some of the most hypnotic and beautiful music in the world. This book is bursting with fun exercises designed to hone your piano-playing technique so you can begin adding your own beautiful sounds to the world. From warm-ups and scales to octaves and chord cadences, you’ll find expert guidance on refining your playing technique. From there you’ll take on challenging rhythms, practice with different tempos, play performance pieces, and find inspiration for your own practice.

Inside…

• Improve your technique
• Reduce tension
• Explore new scales
• Develop greater control
• Play with freer movement
• Practice pedaling and ornaments
• Learn accompaniment patterns
• Build finger independence

Practice, practice, practice to play like Chopin or the Piano Man

The piano will help you add a touch of fun to your life, impress your friends at parties, and even reduce stress. It even makes you better at math (really!). Piano Exercises For Dummies is at your service as you learn to make those 88 black and white keys sing. You’ll get a quick overview of the basics before diving into practice routines and sample songs that you can use to improve your skill, whatever your level. This book gives you online access to audio files of the exercises along with digital access to the sheet music shared in the book. Learn from an experienced pianist, composer, and arranger, and start making beautiful music, the Dummies way!

• Refresh your knowledge of the piano basics so you’re poised and prepared to play the right way
• Play enjoyable practice exercises and songs designed to teach specific skills and techniques in all genres
• Go online to access all the audio files, anytime, anywhere
• Bring a little more joy into your life by stepping up your piano know-how

Piano Exercises For Dummies is for new and experienced pianists alike, and useful for improving your skill in any musical style.