As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it!
Items covered include:
Buying your first keyboard or piano;
Reading music from scratch (treble clef mainly, bass clef briefly);
Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability;
Important musical symbols;
Your first tunes;
Audio links for tunes and exercises;
Key signatures and transposition;
Pre-scale exercises;
Major and minor scales in keyboard and notation view;
Chord construction;
Chord fingering;
Chord charts in keyboard view;
Arpeggios in keyboard and notation view;
Arpeggio exercises;
Playing from a Fake Book with auto-accompaniment;
Over 25 tunes included and free link to more;
Plus, more!
After completing this book, you will have a good basic understanding of music theory as well as a good basic playing technique, paving the way for more advanced study in your chosen field - jazz, blues, pop, etc.