The Ultimate Beginner Series(R) has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. By combining volumes 1 and 2 on DVD or on two videos with one book and one CD, we now offer the greatest and most convenient learning package for the low price of $24.95! A savings of almost 25%.

The Ultimate Beginner Series(R) has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. By combining volumes 1 and 2 on DVD or on two videos with one book and one CD, we now offer the greatest and most convenient learning package for the low price of $24.95! A savings of almost 25%.

The Ultimate Beginner Series(R) has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. By combining volumes 1 and 2 on DVD or on two videos with one book and one CD, we now offer the greatest and most convenient learning package for the low price of $24.95! A savings of almost 25%.

Three of the most popular titles - Keyboard basics, Blues keyboards, and Rock Keyboards - are available in this single, complete book and DVD set. Top educators and performers take you step by step from sitting down at the keyboard for the first time to playing the blues with a band and your first rock solo. Read music notation; learn scales, chords, and arpeggios; play the 12-bar blues progression; explore rock and blues soloing techniques; arrange your own keyboard parts--P. [1 & 4] of cover.

This unique book and CD will give you the tools you need to transform the music that you read into the way it should sound when played. Written music offers the notes, but it may not completely tell you how to perform them. Playing the blues in an authentic manner requires specific techniques that are difficult to notate. However, it can be achieved by combining note reading along with listening to a recording of how it is supposed to sound. Once and for all, the Listen & Play approach puts an end the often-heard lament, "I'm reading it correctly, but why doesn't it sound like the blues?" The CD includes performances of all the examples and tunes-----some of the music is played at a slower practice tempo to make learning easier.

DVD contains MP3 demos and backing tracks, and TNT2 software which allows users to isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys.

Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning rock right away. Starting with a thourough review of music fundamentals and basic rock theory, you will learn the basics of rock chords, left-hand patterns, arpeggios, slash chords, how to read lead sheets and get started improvising with the pentatonic scale. Other topics include blues-rock, rock ballads and an introduction to the modes. The essential starter for any rock keyboardist.

(Piano). This cutting-edge keyboard method is a total step-by-step approach to creating keyboard parts spontaneously. Rhythmic and harmonic concepts are applied in all keys, and are then used as a basis for developing specific solutions in rock, pop, ballad, funk, new age, country and gospel styles. Endorsed by Grammy winners, top educators, and Keyboard magazine.

This book guides you through all the basics, including music notation, body positioning, and chords. Plus, lessons about scales, arpeggios, the blues, and improvisation teach you all you need to know to start playing in a band. The step-by-step explanations and diagrams for each concept make this book a must-have for anyone learning to play keyboard. The CD demonstrates allthe lessons, and when you put the disc in your computer, you can access the TNT9Tone 'N' Tempo) changer software that allows you to loop sections for practice, slow tracks down, or speed them up without changing the pitch"--Back cover.