How To Play The Piano Despite Years Of Lessons

by Ward & Marx Cannel

This method is a truly entertaining approach to learning how to play the piano. Written by Ward Cannel of the Piano Consortium, the method breaks down music theory into visual concepts which are fun and easy to grasp, so you can learn to play the music you want to play! This 4th edition includes a 48 page folio of sheet music with notes, comments & explanations. Main chapters *Some of what music is & is not *The basic chord & its alterations *The basic skeleton of our music *Filling out the skeleton *Camouflaging the skeleton *Camouflaging the skeleton, continued *The overall sound *Camouflaging the skeleton – concluded *How harmony moves & chords change *What every wants to know *Folio of songs *A foggy day *Amazing grace bill Bailey, please come home *Blueberry hill *Come, ye thankful people, come *Deck the halls *Falling in love with love *The first novel *Good King Wenceslas *Hark, the herald angels sing *How high the moon *I can dream, can’t i *Ida, sweet as apple cider *In the good old summer time *Jingle bells *Joy to the world *My gal Sal *Nearer my God, to thee *O Christmas tree *O come all ye faithful *O holy night *O little town of Bethlehem *The old time religion *Silent night *Tales from the Vienna Woods *We wish you a merry Christmas *Where or when *Work for the night is coming *You’d be so nice to come home to

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Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good and useful book, but (IMO) not aimed at the audience the title implies. Do you have little to no piano playing skill, despite having taken some lessons as a youth? Then don't expect much help from this book!
But did you literally take years of piano lessons, can you sight read a lot of music, including music with large hand relocations, without looking at the keys, but are now disappointed that you can't create your own arrangement of familiar songs without printed music to guide you? Ah, in that case you'll be more likely to be interested in this book.
There's good info here for someone hoping to improve their improv skills, or to learn how to vary the normal skeleton of an arrangement, or to write and harmonize their own songs, or to reharmonize familiar songs. There just isn't really anything here about how to develop the skills to manipulate the keys in the ways needed to make those things possible - those skills seem to be assumed as the price of entry. If you know that going in, you're much more likely to appreciate this thoughtful text.