Instead of Scales

Robert Dumm, former head of piano pedagogy at Catholic University, is perhaps our greatest expert on musical finger fitness. In this book he has created a method that eliminates tedious scales yet includes all the elements that go into building a solid technical foundation for playing the keyboard. Instead of Scales will prepare early-level musicians for more advanced technical work and will help intermediate-level keyboardists to "stay in shape" without boring daily routines. The exercises are carefully placed in order of difficulty and are played and narrated on the CD.