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Book 9 - Speed Learning / Making Practice FUN

CONTENTS

Major piano scales daily exercise

Memory Tricks for all the piano scales
Clever memory tricks to help you easily memorise all the piano scales and how many sharps or flats.

An easy way to work out the Minor piano scales

These are scales you will use a lot when improvising Jazz
The Minor Seven scale formula

Other piano scales made REALLY easy

great for jazz improvisation
DIMINISHED scales (there are only 3)
WHOLE TONE scales (there are only 2)
CHROMATIC scale (there is only 1)

Arpeggios (broken chords)

Arpeggio practice is very important because you get to know chords a lot better which enables you to improvise with greater confidence.
(keyboard diagram and musical notation)
Major Arpeggio practice - with correct fingering
Minor and Diminished Arpeggio practice (a great memory trick keyboard diagram)

A word about fingering

It is vitally important to practice with correct fingering right from the start so that you don't learn bad habits which will be difficult to break

Piano chord and scale WORKOUT in the key of C

Keyboard diagrams of EVERY piano chord and scale,
C Major basic Triad workout (a cool way to practice the basic chords)
7th piano chords workout - several exercises
Family piano chords cycle of fifths exercise
I - VI - II - V progression
Twelve three note patterns
Combining the patterns
Basic blues workout
(keyboard diagrams for all the chords with jazz piano scales and blues piano scales)
Minor blues workout
(keyboard diagrams for all the chords with jazz piano scales and blues piano scales)
TRAD Jazz/Blues workout
(keyboard diagrams for all the chords with jazz piano scales and blues piano scales)

Piano chord and scale WORKOUT in ALL other keys

Pianoforall has worked out all the above exercise in EVERY other key (so you don't have to!)
over NINETY pages!

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