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

Knack Piano for Everyoneis a self-instruction book and CD 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 itself—the parts, different kinds of pianos, care for pianos—and provides the basics of reading piano music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques.