Let's Learn Piano: An Adult Beginner Method (Black&White)

By Noam Bonnand

Learning the piano on your own and from your own home
with well-known classical music and beautiful melodies,
These are the goals of this new piano method.

"LET’S LEARN PIANO An Adult Beginner Method"
A practical, clear and detailed method in black&white with 124 pages, presenting skills which
progress cumulatively. The book takes you by the hand and accompanies you step by step during your first six months of learning.

The method provides the beginning pianist with, not only the theoretical background
and the practice needed to learn to play, but also with the ability to read music notation fluently.

This first major unit includes 11 lessons and 13 pieces for four to six months of learning, depending on your pace.

Each unit explains step by step and in a cumulative way,
everything the student needs to practice each
piece. Afterwards, before continuing to the next unit, there is a quiz to give the student
feedback about what has been learned.

The result of more than 20 years of pedagogical experience, this guide, along with regular daily practice, will give you all you need to start reading and playing your first classical works.

Surprises await you inside,
as well as these free downloads:
Guide for note reading
13 printable black&white scores
13 .wav & .mp3 audio files

I wish you success in your piano practice.
You will be on a beautiful exploration of the piano
and have a wonderful journey with the most famous classical musics in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noam Bonnand
• Release date: Jun 18, 2021

Noam Bonnand

Je suis Noam, professeur de piano, compositeur, entrepreneur, éditeur, auteur, poète.Suite à un parcours de 12 années de conservatoire, d’une médaille d’or en piano, d’un diplôme de fin d’études en formation musicale, de plus d’une centaine d’œuvres pour piano seul en tant que compositeur dont 2 albums« Le son du silence » et le « Le son de la vie »que vous pouvez écouter en partie dans la partie Sélection de ma page linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cours-de-piano-vincennes/ainsi que plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans l’enseignement du piano ; j’ai pensé que le temps était venu pour moi de partager à travers Piano Mondial Editions, mon expérience pédagogique, au plus grand nombre. C’est de cette façon qu’est née ma méthode de piano pour les adultes qui traite la première année de piano de A à Z. Cette méthode existe sous plusieurs formes:- Formation en ligne sur internet : https://apprendre-le-piano-en-ligne.com/-2 Livres papier couleur ou noir et blanc que vous pouvez trouver sur Amazonen tapant: APPRENDRE LE PIANO Méthode pour adulte 1ère année-2 Livres numérique couleur ou noir et blanc français:APPRENDRE LE PIANO: Méthode débutant adulte [les 6 premiers mois d’apprentissage]https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/890013https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/896603-2 Livres numérique couleur ou noir et blanc anglais:Let's Learn Piano: An Adult Beginner Methodhttps://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1090654https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1090083Egalement poète et auteur d'un catalogue d'environ 2500 poèmes, mon premier recueil "lolo tôtelle" a été édité en 2001 à la maison d'édition Librairie Galerie Racine à Paris. Vous pouvez trouver une nouvelle édition numérique de ce livre à l'adresse suivante :https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/946973J'ai à coeur de travailler sur de nouvelles éditions poétiques ou musicales pour partager et faire connaître mon œuvre.Au-delà de la musique, de la poésie et de l'enseignement. Je suis également passionné depuis quelques années, et chaque jour un peu plus, par la spiritualité.

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PIANO LESSON 1

KEYBOARD PRESENTATION

TWO 8’S RULE

A piano almost always has 88 keys.

White keys and black keys grouped by 2 and 3.

TWO 7’S RULE

You have on a piano 7 notes (C-D-E-F-G-A-B) that are repeated 7 times on the keyboard.

The distance between two C is called an octave. (take a good look at the image, at the very bottom left of the keyboard, on sequence 1).

LOW NOTES/ HIGH NOTES

- Notes get lower and lower as you go left.

- Notes get higher and higher as you go to the right.


we will see Low notes/ High notes in a little more detail with the practical exercise 1

MIDDLE C

Middle C is in the middle. It is more important than the other C’s 


because it divides the keyboard into two main parts: Left/Right.

- Left part: bass clef / left hand.

- Right part: Treble clef / right hand.

HOW TO EASILY FIND THE C’s ?

Black keys are grouped by 2 and 3.

If you look black keys, you can easily find each C.

C is the white key that is located just to left of 2 black keys.

You can recognize the middle C in this picture, which is lighter than the others.


PLAY ALL C’S ON KEYBOARD

(practical exercise 1)

Sit in front of your piano without looking at the pictures from the book.

Plays all C’s on the keyboard, from the lowest C to the highest C.

How many C's do you see on your keyboard?

(I'm talking about C's you can find with two black keys).


if you look closely at the whole keyboard, there is a C that you can't find using two black keys group, because they're not there.
Do you see what C is that's different from the others?


Come on, I'll help you a little ! You will find this C a little special, at the very top right of the keyboard.

You can find this C by counting to 8 or by ascending two white keys to the right of the 3 black keys group.


You can also have fun playing all D’s on the keyboard.

(D is 2nd key of scale to the right of C).



You can also play all the E’s and so on…

(E, the 3rd key going up the scale from the C)

BASS CLEF / LEFT HAND & TREBLE CLEF / RIGHT HAND

This year we will study just part of the keyboard (4 octaves).
If you look closely at the picture below, you can see that these 4 octaves correspond to octave 2 and 3 in left hand part, then 4 and 5 in right hand part. Look also at this on page 8.

- Notes to left of middle C are played (most often) with left hand, and read in bass clef on 
the score.

- Notes to the right of middle C are played (most often) with right hand, and read in 
 treble clef on the score.

FINGERINGS (THE FINGERS NUMBERS)

The fingers numbers is called the Fingerings.

These are the numbers above notes on the score.

They are used to know which finger you have to play on a note.

HANDS IN OPPOSITION

- When you play 1-2-3-4-5 with your right hand, you ascending.

- When you play 1-2-3-4-5 with your left hand, you descending.

You see, they are the same fingers, but they go in the opposite direction.

LOW NOTES / HIGHT NOTES


(Practical Exercise 2)


- Have fun playing all notes on the keyboard with any finger.

- Begins in the lower left bass and goes up to the highest note on the top right.

- You can ascending with white keys only 
 or both: white keys + black keys.

- You can also play several notes by pressing the damper pedal (right pedal).

- Listen carefully to the sound of each note, the feeling in your ear between low and high notes.

- Imagine that there is a real string that vibrates behind each note.

- Try to feel if low notes vibrate more slowly or faster than high notes?

ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON THE KEYBOARD

Imagine piano keyboard like a stairs. This stairs in music is called scale

An important piano rule that will never change:

- To the right, you ascend.

- To the left you descend.

FIRST FIVE RIGHT HAND NOTES & LEFT HAND

(practical exercise 3 with keyboard)

FIRST 5 RIGHT HAND NOTES

Ascending and descending the scale on the first 5 right hand notes

- Ascending: (middle) C - D - E -F- G with fingerings 1-2-3-4-5 .


- Descending: G-F-E-D-C (middle) with fingerings 5-4-3-2-1 .


- Make sure to say notes name out loud by playing each finger.


FIRST 5 LEFT HAND NOTES


- Descending: (middle) C -B-A-G-F / fingerings 1-2-3-4-5 .


Ascending: F-G-A-B- (middle) C / fingerings 5-4-3-2-1 . 


- Make sure to say notes name out loud by playing each finger.

ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON 3, 4 AND 5 NOTES

(practical exercise 4 with and without keyboard)

Do the exercise well from middle C .

SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE 1


Your result score about difficulty will help you know if you are comfortable throughout the lesson. Try to study a specific point of the lesson again, if you have a score below 7 out of 10.


- HAVE YOU PASSED ALL THE EXERCISES AND PRACTICAL SKILLS IN THE 
 LESSON :

Finding and playing all C’s : Yes – No


Difficulty: Rating from 1 to 10 (1= very difficult, 10=very easy) :



WITH KEYBOARD

Ascending and descending on 3, 4, 5 notes from middle C with right hand: Yes – No


Difficulty: Rating from 1 to 10 (1=very difficult, 10=very easy) :



Descending and ascending on 3, 4, 5 notes from middle C with