Popular Beginner for Teenagers and Adults

This book is presented as a text for the teenage or adult beginning student of piano whose interest lies in the popular or modern field of music. It concerns itself with the necessary fundamentals for playing the piano, and is progressively graded from the early rudiments of music to formation and playing of chords. In this book a student will learn to form and play all chords as found on a popular song. He will learn the chord symbols, changes of quality, as well as inversions. The Basic Blues Progression is presented, as well as a section on "How to Read a Lead Sheet."