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You can now teach yourself to play the piano, even though you have
never taken a lesson. Teach yourself to play the piano and progress
at your own pace! Covers the basic fundamentals of piano playing in
a concise and logical fashion. Its appealing music will encourage
you to play every day. Features: Rhythms made simple; How to form
the most important chords; Finger aerobics help to make playing
easier; Techniques of playing with feeling and expression;
Step-by-step approach to learning the entire keyboard; Letter-notes
provide and easy introduction to reading music. The Enhanced CD for
this book contains great audio accompaniments you can play on your
stereo and doubles as an interactive and fun multimedia learning
tool that works on any Windows-compatible PC. The song player shows
you exactly how each song should be played, lets you customize the
audio levels, adjust playback tempo, and even record your own
performance! CD-ROM is for Windows & Macintosh.
Leading researchers have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to
this overview of high-performance computing in biomedical research.
The book includes over 30 pages of color illustrations. Some of the
important topics featured in the book include the following:
Learn to play the electronic keyboard and open up a brand new world
of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred.
Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of
musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn
about MIDI, position at the keyboard, preparing your instrument for
use, and proper hand position. You will then move right along to
learning about the different keys on the keyboard and basics of
standard musical notation. You will immediately dive into playing
notes and transforming them into well-known songs, all while
continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and
understanding standard musical notation and keyboard functions.
Throughout the book, you will be introduced to a variety of styles,
including pop, rock, country, blues, classics, folk favorites,
hymns, spirituals and ragtime and upon completion you will know how
to use chord symbols to play from pop sheet music, fake books and
lead sheets. This book is for keyboards with automatic rhythms and
"single-finger" chords.
The book features the following helpful resources for reference
during and after your lessons:
* Explanation of the Circle of 5ths
* Improvising techniques
* Exciting arrangements of "The Entertainer," "Amazing Grace," and
many more.
Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of
the way.
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Written in the style of a Japanese fairy tale, this book deals with
the problems of coping with being different than others. A tiny
infant, Okee-chan, is adopted by an elderly couple. His body growth
can't be stopped. He grows larger each day. While he enjoys periods
of happiness, there are times of suffering and woe due to his being
so unlike other persons. He must learn to ciope with these as he
continues to increase in size until and even after he becomes a
giant. All of us know of persons suffering from being unusual
whether too fat or too thin, having skin coloring or body shapes
different from others. Okee-chan must face the taunts of others his
size and many other difficulties The tale tells how he coped with
such a life. It is hoped that it will help others suffering from
similar problems.
Have you ever loved a dog? Or trapped a skunk? Or pondered God and
Heaven? This book tells of a poor boy's life with the little dog he
loved who did all that and many other exploits during the middle of
the Great Depression. It is an exciting, true story relating the
encounters by the boy and his little dog with many rattlesnakes,
other nonpoisonous snakes, pumas, trapping, herding cattle, guns,
coyotes, skinny dipping, schooling, and many other adventures
ending with the dog saving a Boy Scout from death. It also tells of
the author's first experiences in a church, some good and some bad,
his facing the sorrowful pains of grief plus his questions about
heaven which led to a deep faith in God and a better understanding
of human nature. (Ultimately those early experiences helped prepare
the author for the Christian ministry and missionary service
overseas as told in his recently published autobiography "VIGNETTES
OF A WONDERFUL LIFE" available through Amazon books.)
This little book of verses and cartoons was created to provide
Christian inspiration and humor. Written by the eighty six year old
author it touches on life from birth to beyond the the grave.
Included are thoughts on love, romance and marriage. overseas
missions, aging, death and life after death. With a section of
humorous poems and cartoons "just for fun," such as a poem
describing a tortoise complaining about having to carry about a
heavy shell, it may bring on chuckles and an awareness that life
can be spiced up with laughter and fun and not always be taken
seriously.
A baby lovely baby Gnu is born but his fur is unlike that with
which the other animals are familiar. It shows a tinge of blue when
the sun shines on it. This difference causes the other animals to
think there is a relationship between the birth of so odd a Gnu and
the attacks of a fierce black panther out to kill and eat their
children. This leads to the ostracism and loneliness of the poor
little blue Gnu. He battles with himself to discover what he should
do. Is there no way out of such a problem?
Two girls have the daunting and sometimes terror filled task of
trying to save their father's inventions including Robert the
Robot. The Army, the Navy, a foreign country, U.S. Government
agents and a thief are determined to have the robot and other
inventions. They will do all they can to get them. What can two
young girls do, even when aided by two friendly boys, to save their
father's inventions and his reputation while in severe jeopardy?
Full Title: "A Letter to The Lord Chief Justice Campbell,
Containing Remarks upon the Conduct of The Prosecution and The
Judges; with Strictures on The Charge Delivered To The Jury,
Illustrative of its Dangerous Tendencies to the Long. Enjoyed
Rights and Privilegs of"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law:
Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major
trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents,
unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments
and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as
those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional
and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery
case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials"
provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial
participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled
source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++MonographYale Law LibraryLondon: T. Taylor,
38a, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars. 1856
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG95-B3982Includes index.London: Macmillan, 1914. xxx, 574
p.; 23 cm
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