Playing with Sheet Music is a series of accessible textbooks for music lovers of all ages. In this first book, you will learn to read and play sheet music. The exercises help you progress, step by step. And before you know it, you’ll be playing notes off sheet music. You will learn the most commonly used basic notes for keyboard instruments such as the piano, keyboard and organ.\nLearn to Read and Play Notes is a reliable method for anyone who wants to develop musically by learning to read notes. This book meets the needs of enthusiasts, students and teachers who want a method for pure reading and playing of notes. It is suitable for self-study and lessons.\nThrough the many simple exercises, you will automatically learn to play all the notes. The exercises have been developed from the practice of music education. Still, they’re different from most methods because in this book you won’t play melodies and songs. In this book you’ll just practise notes, notes and more notes. Did you know that most musicians enjoy doing exercises? That is their daily work, and that is exactly what this method offers you: a lot of practical exercises that you will enjoy doing.\nWe hope that you will learn all you need from the exercises, which are made for and by musicians. Good luck!

Learn to Read and Play Notes: Practical exercises for effortless note reading (Playing with Sheet Music)

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Learn to Read and Play Scales: Practical exercises for effortless note reading (Playing with Sheet Music)

Playing with Sheet Music is a series of accessible textbooks for music lovers of all ages. In this third book, you’ll learn to recognize metre and rhythm. With the use of the carefully constructed exercises in this book, you’ll practice the lengths of notes and rests, and rhythmic patterns. Also, you’ll be able to recognise and play various time signatures.\nThe exercises are focused on practice. You’ll practise playing with both hands and with fingering, starting off with simple exercises. Soon you’ll become familiar with rhythms that are often used in popular and classical music. At the end of the book, we pay attention to repetitions, and reading and playing longer pieces of music. After completing this book, you will have all the basic skills to be able to play the most commonly used time signatures and rhythms off sheet music.\nLearn to Read and Play Rhythm is a reliable method for anyone who wants to master metre and rhythm. The exercises are pleasant to do and originate from the practice of music education. Just like Books 1 and 2, Book 3 is also suitable for self-study as well as for lessons under the guidance of a teacher. We wish you a lot of fun with the exercises, which are made for and by musicians. Good luck!

Learn to Read and Play Rhythm: Practical exercises for effortless note reading (Playing with Sheet Music)

Playing with Sheet Music is a series of accessible textbooks for music lovers of all ages. The method is based on practical experience of piano teaching and is suitable for both self-study and lessons under the guidance of a teacher.\nIn this fourth book, you’ll learn to play and recognise chords from sheet music. You will learn to play the major and minor chords in all keys with efficient fingering. Concepts that are regularly used by musicians – such as overtones, triads, inversions, broken chords, seventh chords, harmony and cadences – are explained in an understandable way. The theory has been incorporated into a large number of clear exercises with which you can gradually lay a solid foundation for playing almost all music styles.\nLearn to Read and Play Chords is the logical continuation of the successful other books in the series, Playing with Sheet Music. In Book 1, you learn to read notes for the left and right hand. Book 2 is entirely devoted to keys and scales. In Book 3, you learn to play measure and rhythm. In this fourth book, you learn harmony and chords. At the end of this book, everything comes together in comprehensive exercises. We wish you a lot of fun with the exercises, which are made for and by musicians. Good luck!

Learn to Read and Play Chords: Practical exercises for effortless note reading (Playing with Sheet Music)

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