The fun and easy way® to tune up your technique and improve your playing

Is the piano your passion? This easy-to-read guide is bursting with fun exercises designed to hone your piano-playing technique, from warm-ups and major and minor scales to octaves, chord cadences, and more. You''ll play challenging rhythms, practice with different tempos, play a performance piece at the end of each chapter, and find inspiration for performing music your way.

• Warm up away from the piano — release tension in your hands, wrists, and arms and go to the piano feeling loose and comfortable

• Wake up those fingers — perfect your hand position and develop left and right hand finger independence

• Develop greater control — practice smoother finger crossovers and pass-unders for speedier scales and arpeggios

• Incorporate greater movement — play chords without tension, jump across the keyboard, and move with ease in parallel and contrary motion

• Ramp up your skills — perfect your pedaling, play grace notes, trills, and other fancy ornaments

Open the book and find:

• More than 150 exercises that vary in style, key, and tempo

• Major and minor scales

• Blues, diminished and chromatic scales

• Finger, rhythm, and chord progression exercises

• Left-hand accompanimentpatterns

• Performance pieces with every chapter

• Ten one-page dance pieces

Bonus CD Includes

More than 70 tracks all played by the author

Selected exercises from each chapter

Every performance piece

Ten dance pieces from the book

The ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique--and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies.