[Total Keyboard Tutor (Total Tutor)] [Author: Terry Burrows] [April, 2011]

by Terry Burrows

Product Synopsis Learn to play the piano or any other keyboard instrument in every popular musical style, from classical to dance music like garage and techno. Start with simple exercises like moving through the scales and you'll soon be ready for the more advanced lessons, such as mastering complete pieces of music and understanding music theory. This is an up-to-the-minute course you can't miss taking to find out about today's most important, associated technology, such as MIDI programming and sequencing, digital sampling, and computer hard-disk recording. Whether you're a fan of Miles Davis or groove to Brian Eno, if you want to play or perform on keyboards, this is how to do it. Book jacket. You can sound like Thelonius Monk, Art Tatum, Herbie Hancock--and you'd love to sound like them. But, you can't become a great keyboardist without becoming a good one first. Once you have those skills, the whole world of music opens up to you-and then you can partake of the infinite possibilities provided by modern the fundamentals of MIDI programming and sequencing, digital sampling, and computer hard disk recording. Start by developing your command of the keyboard. Then try different music styles from classical, pop, and jazz, to programming modern up-to-the-minute dance music like garage and techno. A 12-lesson music course takes you from absolute beginner to expert who's able to complete pieces of music. Best of all, by studying the basics of traditional piano theory you can easily apply your knowledge to the modern-day MIDI keyboard--the central instrument of the contemporary music scene.

Genres: Music

Hardcover

First published August 15, 2000

Reviews

[Alvin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Remarkable because it covers synthesizers as well as more traditional keyboards like pianos. Replete with the history of keyboard devices, musicians, music theory and so on it lives up to its moniker of being complete and is a welcome modern departure from the usual stuffiness of most piano books which read like they were written in 1800. Nice production values too.