Towards Excellence: Understanding the Keyboard (Beginners to Advanced) (Book)

Rod Best

Towards Excellence: Understanding the Keyboard is designed to assist piano and keyboard players to achieve a greater standard of excellence through a series of exercises and examples. It's main concentration is towards the development of keyboard players to use the gift that God has given them for His Glory. The principles included here will greatly assist people in all playing situations.

This book assumes the reader has some basic understanding of the keyboard and has some theoretical knowledge.

Chapter Topics Include

Chapter 01. Pulse, Tempo & Time

Chapter 02. Intervals Plus Major & Minor Scales

Chapter 03. Chords & Chord Inversions on Major & Minor Scales

Chapter 04. Modal Scales and Their Chords and Inversions

Chapter 05. Chord Substitution

Chapter 06. Developing Right and Left Hand Techniques

Chapter 07. Playing Songs Confidently in Contemporary Styles

Chapter 08. Improvisation

Chapter 09. Chord Patterns for Worship

Chapter 10. Piano or Keyboards as Part of a Worship Band

Chapter 11. Further Application of Left Hand & Right Hand Patterns in Hymns and Choruses