Piano Freedom for Frustrated Pianists: Play by note chord or ear

Piano Freedom is a great teaching aid for adults or children and makes it fun as music should be. - George Winston pianist and composer Anyone can play piano Are you a frustrated pianist? Do you long for piano freedom? Do you exhibit any of the following common symptoms?It feels like too much work to learn to play a new song.Your brain overloads when trying to read multiple notes on treble and bass clefs.You long to play by ear play by chord or improvise.Sometimes you might feel ready to quit but your desire to play keeps tugging at your heart.The question isnt whether you can learn but how youll learn. Piano Freedom will help you find the ways to play that suit your learning style!Linda Spangler M.Mus. has been teaching and loving the piano for over 40 years. Throughout her career shes been fascinated by the many different ways that people learn. There is no right way for everyone to learn piano. There is only the right way for YOU to learn piano.Like any language music has an alphabet of notes; a vocabulary of scales chords and progressions; and grammar rules of harmony. And with Piano Freedom you can learn the music you love in the ways that work best for you.A delight for both adults and precocious kids Piano Freedoms easy-to-follow layout and lessons help each pianist progress at his or her own pace. Using aural kinesthetic visual and/or analytic approaches students can learn to improvise; play by ear chord or note; and/or play with people.In Piano Freedom youll experience a taste of freedom right away by playing on the Black Key Pentatonic Playground. When you move down to the white keys youll find out what to do in case of a clash and explore musical examples - folk hymns classical blues and more. In Part II youll meet geebeedee Cricket (G major = g b d ) and the rest of the Cast of Chords and youll start playing from lead sheets. A Toolbox at the end of the book offers you the right tools for solving your lingering musical problems.Piano Freedom is more than a book or teaching guide. It is a lifetime of piano joy and learning. And that same joy of playing piano can be yours too.Valerie H.: 5 stars!Linda Spangler has found the difference between practice and play. After 14 years of disappointing musical education I spent two privileged years learning from Linda. Ten years later I still cherish the experience.Piano Freedom takes an approach that is far beyond the norm of the mainstream piece practice play methodology. Rather than escorting the student through a series of exercises that leaves one void of musical satisfaction this engaging book teaches the student how to understand the music.Each lesson like a spring board seamlessly and painlessly launches the learner into whole fields of play. When you master a lesson the accomplishment will be immediately tangible and musically apparent. Like any great book it is an achievement that will grow with you throughout your musical journey. You will find yourself referring to Piano Freedom again and again and marvel as you realize what it really is to play music.R.D. Mayhugh: 5 stars!