Knack Piano for Everyone A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-09
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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Summary

Knack Piano for Everyoneis a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises in musical notation. By Margaret Ann Martin, a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music who has taught piano and composition for more than twenty years and performs widely, it shows everything one needs to know about the instrument itselfthe parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianosand provides the basics of reading piano music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques. Plus, there are 100 play-along audio tracks available for free at knackbooks.com/piano.

Author Biography

Margaret Ann Martin graduated with a Masters Degree in Piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.  She has been teaching piano and composition at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven for more than twenty years.  She plays regularly for English Country Dance in New Haven and other places, and has made six recordings for ECdance on the Country Dance and Song label, and on private labels.  She performs two-piano repertoire with partner, Adrienne Forrest, and two-piano/eight-hand repertoire with the Two Plus Two Piano Quartet. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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