Open up your mind, and make playing piano a no-brainer! Start with the basics, like sitting at the piano, and then move on to playing folk, rock, blues, classical, and other styles. In addition to reading sheet music, you will learn to improvise and solo over great play-along tracks. With this book, you won't just learn to play piano, you'll learn about playing in a band.

Presents basic lessons in reading music notation, advice on how to select an instrument, and details how to find your way around the keyboard.

Continuing the incredible popularity of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, this new book adapts the same friendly and informative style for adults who wish to teach themselves. With the study guide pages that have been added to introduce the music, it's almost like having a piano teacher beside you as you learn the skills needed to perform popular and familiar music. There are also five bonus pieces: At Last * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Laura * Over the Rainbow * Singin' in the Rain. Included is a recording containing the piano part and an engaging arrangement for each of the 65 musical examples. 192 pages.

A guide to playing keyboards, featuring lessons for people with no previous musical training, with illustrations, and a selection of songs to play.

You don't have to wait until your child begins school to start learning the piano – preschoolers can learn too! Jingle bells, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Mary had a little lamb, are just some of the tunes your preschooler will learn to play using correct fingering for both hands, following a color/number system. The method is so simple, that piano teachers who have avoided teaching preschoolers in the past, no longer have to. With brightly colored notes, fun illustrations and lively accompaniment tracks, teachers love Piano In Color just as much as preschoolers do.Even parents with no musical knowledge will find that the Piano In Color books provide the information you need to introduce your preschooler to the piano. And some parents have even been known to start learning Piano In Color for themselves!

As he did in his acclaimed '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age and his earlier nonfiction works, Terry Frei combines reporting, historical research, memoir, and opinion, discussing his varied experiences and the diverse characters-including John and Jack Elway, plus 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith-he has encountered in covering Colorado, national, and international sports since he was a green sportswriter in the era of '77. Those diverse figures include Olympic heroes, Hall of Famers, world boxing champions, and other marquee athletes. He also displays his knack for narrative and inquisitive journalism, introducing readers to intriguing figures and taking them behind the scenes of some very high-profile events and settings. All this follows a blunt and unsparing assessment of the modern newspaper and sports journalism.

Fifty years after the Grateful Dead was formed, the band still exerts a powerful influence over hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Today, an entire generation of Deadheads who have never experienced a live Dead show are still drawn to the music and the complex and colorful subculture that has grown up around it. In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, Blair Jackson and David Gans, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, reveal the band's story through the words of its members and their creative collaborators, as well as a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Woven into this musical saga is an examination of the subculture that developed into its own economy, touching fans from all walks of life, from penniless hippies to celebrities, and at least one U.S. vice president. The book traces the band's evolution from its folk/bluegrass beginnings through the Jug Band craze, an early incarnation as Rolling Stones wannabes, feral psychedelic warriors, the Americana jam band that blazed through the '70s, to the shockingly popular but still iconoclastic stadium-filling band of later years. The Dead broke every rule of the music business along the way, taking risks and venturing into new territory as they fused inspired ideas and techniques with intuition and fearlessness to create a sound-and a business model-unlike anything heard and seen before.