The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Piano Chords.The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Piano Chords Karen Berger Penguin Group (USA) 375 Hudson Street Hudson Street can refer to:
ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1592574599, $12.95, 185 pp. Sometimes accomplished pianists don't have loads of extra patience for teaching, well, idiots. Not so Karen Berger, a pianist on the faculty of the Berkshire Music School. Berger's very enjoyable book, "Pocket Idiot's Guide to Piano Chords," thoroughly presents the material necessary for a complete novice begin to playing from a "fake" book (a book that contains a melody line for the right hand and chord symbols for the left) with a large dose of patience and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was . The book begins with chapters containing simple musical concepts such as note reading and rhythm before moving quickly (but not too quickly) into chord building, proceeding from simple triads to augmented, suspended, diminished chords Generally, in music, a diminished chord is a chord which has a diminished fifth in it. More specifically, it is a three-note chord (a diminished triad) consisting of a minor third and diminished fifth above the root — if built on C, a diminished chord would have a C, as well as a whole chapter on sevenths. Since chordal chord·al adj. Of or relating to a chorda or cord. knowledge is absolutely fundamental to fake book fake book n. A book or collection of pages containing information about songs, especially their lyrics, melodies, and chord progressions, used by musicians as a substitute for standard sheet music or as a framework for improvisation. playing, Berger includes an illustration and explanation of "the circle of fifths," an indispensable visual tool for navigating the relationships between the chords usually found together in one song. The easy-to-understand text is dotted with very helpful explanatory boxes (in the tradition of "Idiot's Guide" books) with such titles as "Practice Makes Perfect," "Universal Language," "Music to Your Ears." Each chapter ends with "The Least You Need To Know"--the summation summation n. the final argument of an attorney at the close of a trial in which he/she attempts to convince the judge and/or jury of the virtues of the client's case. (See: closing argument) points of that chapter's information. Appendices include a glossary, as well as scales and chord listings. A book that takes the reader from a simple five tone C-D-E-F-G scale to a 12-bar blues pattern in a mere 185 easy-to-understand pages is quite an accomplishment. "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Piano Chords" really packs an educational punch and will be helpful, not only to those trying to learn chordal techniques themselves, but will also be of great assistance to those who teach these concepts to others. |
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