Product Description
This is the first of 8 units in our Chord Skills Series For the Piano. This series, based on key map tablatures, provides beginning and intermediate instruction on keyboard harmony. The focus is on playing chords, primarily with the left hand. The first 4 units provide instructions and exercises for playing chords on the piano. (The last 2 of these units are at an intermediate to advanced level.
The last 4 units in this series are collections of music in which the lessons of the first 4 units are applied. These collections consist primarily of right hand melodies with chordal accompaniments in the left hand. Here is is a list of the units in the series:
Instructions and Exercises
PC-10 Chord Prep Instruction With Exercises
PC-15 Chord Fingering Exercises - Patterns Explained
PC-20 Basic Keyboard Harmony
PC-35 Chord Chart Patterns on Key Maps
Music Collections
PC-52 My First Song Collection - Part 3
PC-62 My First Song Collection - Part 2 - With Broken Chords
PC-64 Traditional Christmas Carols - With Broken Chords
PC-75 Great Symphonic Themes
Instruction should begin with PC-10 and then PC-15. The other instructional units can be started at any time after the student begins to study PC-15. The collections can be started at any time that the student is ready, but be aware that the collections are roughly in order by their difficulty.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.