Piano and Keyboard Initiation Book

BOOK OF A
^■INTRODUCTION TO
APIANO
AND
KEYBOARD
AVIRTUOSSO
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INDEX
KEYBOARD
INDEX.................................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................2
HISTORY OF......................................................................................................................................2
BASIC EQUIPMENT ■.......................................................................................................................4
1.- Metronome:.................................................................................................................................4
BASIC TEAM......................................................................................................................................5
4 .- Music stand:...........................................................................................................................5
AMERICAN ENCRYPTION..............................................................................................................6
MUSICAL THEORY...........................................................................................................................7
What is music?..................................................................................................................................7
Rhythm:............................................................................................................................................7
Melody:.............................................................................................................................................7
Staff:.................................................................................................................................................7
Rhythmic break:...............................................................................................................................7
MUSICAL THEORY...........................................................................................................................8
Barlines:............................................................................................................................................8
Compass:..........................................................................................................................................8
The key:............................................................................................................................................8
MUSICAL THEORY...........................................................................................................................9
Notes value:......................................................................................................................................9
MUSIC THEORY i............................................................................................................................10
Punctilio:.........................................................................................................................................10
NOTES ON THE KEYBOARD........................................................................................................11
NOTES ON THE KEYBOARD........................................................................................................12
POSTURE TO PLAY........................................................................................................................12
POSTURE TO PLAY........................................................................................................................13
EXERCISES.......................................................................................................................................15
EXERCISES.......................................................................................................................................16
MAJOR SCALE.................................................................................................................................16
MAJOR SCALE.................................................................................................................................18
MAJOR SCALE.................................................................................................................................19
MAJOR SCALE.................................................................................................................................20
MAJOR SCALE.................................................................................................................................21
MINOR SCALE ■.............................................................................................................................22
MAJOR CHORDS.............................................................................................................................27
INTRODUCTION
The main function of the Virtuosso music school books is to give You will have the tools
and basic knowledge so that you know the instrument of your choice.
In this case it is the keyboard, this method addresses the issues in a systematic way tica,
we recommend that you address the topics in the order they appear since in some cases
the topics previously addressed are closely related. two with the following topic, it will be
essential that you study the exercises with me tronome starting at a moderate speed,
taking care to keep the time stable and paying special attention to the execution.
HISTORY OF
KEYBOARD
THE KEYBOARD Since the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century,
various in attempts to generate or modify sound through electricity, a first attempt was achieved
with instruments called electrophones, in which the sound is created directly from electricity, the first
such as the Thelarmonium (1906) and the Theremin (1920). they fail to last, until the electric organ
appears co patented by Hammond in 1934 which is considered at this time capable of surpassing
its acoustic equivalents in quantity produced, despite all this it was not until the 60s when they
began to become popular, its development took place mainly mainly in the electronics laboratories
of universities in the United States two, there, some pioneers like Bob Moog built synthesizer
prototypes and gave demonstrations. At first, the synthesizer was seen as an experimental and
elitist instrument, perhaps due to the fact that only a few avant-garde artists dared to compose
music for this instrument.
With the emergence of a new market, manufacturers designed smaller models such as the
Minimoog, and they began to be built by Japanese companies such as Roland and Yamaha.
The new musical styles of the 1970s, such as progressive rock, demanded They gave new sounds
for which this instrument was adopted.
T H E I C S L T AD O O RIA DEL
KEYBOARD
Until this time, synthesizers were used to add novel sounds. to existing instruments. But
with the arrival of digital technology it was possible for them to begin to emulate traditional
instruments.
In 1983, the MIDI interface was adopted, allowing different brands of synthesizers to
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communicate with each other and record what was played on a device called a sequencer.
This revolutionized the way of making music since anyone could program even if they were
not a good player. The most representative synthesizers of this era are the Yamaha DX7
and the Roland D-50.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the sampler was also developed, an instrument that allows
real sounds to be recorded digitally and reproduced. produce them. This technology made
it possible to emulate almost all existing sounds.
BASIC EQUIPMENT ■
Below we present a list of the equipment that you will need to learn to play the keyboard
and that will facilitate the learning process.
1.- Metronome:
The metronome is a fundamental tool such to study and
begin to be aware of the different speeds at which you can
When we play, these speeds are measured in BPM (Beats
per minute). The metronome emits a sound. do “click” which
indicates the pulses over time.
2.-Monaural ¼” plug
cable: With this ca If
you connect the keyboard to your amplifier or a mixer
to play live, I recommend We recommend buying a
cable of a length that is not too short, so that you can
have freedom of movement but that is not too long
either. go so that you do not have signal loss, that is,
the signal from your keyboard does not reach the
amplifier or mixer as it should.
3.-Keyboard amplifier: It is the device Where you will listen to your keyboard, there are
different presentations and powers, ranging from 15
to 250 watts. With 15 or 25 watts enough to play at
home. You have to take into account the use you
intend to give the amplifier to decide. say what
amount of watts is appropriate for us, for example if
we play with a fairly noisy drummer, an amplifier 15
watts will be quite limited to hear us compared to
the sound of the battery.
BASIC TEAM
4 .- Music stand:
The music stand will help us read the scores or ciphers of
a song, in this book I recommend you We recommend
choosing a lectern that fits your needs. Something you will
have to take into account is how much portability you want
it to have, that is, how easy or difficult it is to assemble.
check it and reassemble it for transport as well as how
resistant to shocks it can be.
5 .- Lectern or keyboard base: The base of the

te clade will help us stop the keyboard while after we
are playing and put the keyboard to the ture that we
want to play whether sitting or standing, there are bases
to support several keyboards on a single base.
6- Keyboard case or hard case: The

keyboard case generally offers us greater
portability but less pro protection against shocks,
the hard case pe It will be much longer and larger
than a keyboard case. Choose a cover or a hard
case for your keyboard based on your needs, a
good starting point to decide between these two
possibilities will be how much you will move your
keyboard or if you need If you want it to be more
protected against knocks or if you are only going
to keep it at home and you want dust to not get to
it.
AMERICAN
ENCRYPTION
The American cipher has been adopted in almost all parts of the world so that we can
communicate with other musicians regardless of nationality just by seeing the cipher. The
American cipher consists of assigning a letter of the alphabet to each note (the letter is
written with a capital letter); below we present the notes that are assigned to each letter:
A = The
B = Yes
C=C
D = Re
E=E
F = Fa
G = Sun
This is the basic principle of the American cipher, plus the symbol “#” for sharps or “b” for
flats is added to each letter, when it appears. ce a “#” (sharp) means that in the case of the
keyboard we are going to play the note half a tone ahead of the note in which it is located
without sharpness, that is, one key ahead, and in the case of “b” ( flat) means that we will
play the note half a tone below the note in which it is located without flat, that is, one key
down, in the case of the keyboard this is very easy to see since the white keys will be our
notes without alteration and The black keys will be our notes with alterations either sharp or
flat depending on the case, in some cases the same note will receive two different names,
this is known as enharmonics. For example, the Bb note can also be called A# or the Db
note can also be called C#.
MUSICAL THEORY
What is music?
Music is the art of combining sounds and silences over time and with It consists of three
elements, which are melody, harmony and rhythm.
Rhythm:
It is the order and proportion in which sounds are grouped in time, therefore it implies
duration of sounds.
Melody:
It is the succession of sounds of different pitch, when we talk about pitch we mean that the
sounds can be low or high, that is, the lower the sound, the lower the pitch, and the higher
the pitch, the higher the pitch.
Harmony: It is the relationship that exists between sounds of different heights that occur
rre simultaneously, to create harmony requires sounds of different three pitches ringing
simultaneously. The difference between harmony and melody is that in melody the sounds
occur successively and in harmony these sounds occur simultaneously.
To start reading music the main thing will be to recognize the different elements. coughs
that appear in a score.
Staff:
It is a set of five lines and four spaces in which we will write the notes
Rhythmic break:
The rhythmic break appears at the beginning of a score and tells us how many
Notes fit in each measure.
MUSICAL THEORY
Barlines:
Barlines are the vertical lines that appear in the score.
Compass bar
Compass:
It is the section between two bars of the measure in which we write a number of notes
determined by the rhythmic break
The key:
The keyboard is written in the treble clef on the second line, for the right hand and in the
bass clef in fourth for the left hand, the clef is what tells us the name of the notes on the
staff.
MUSICAL THEORY
Notes value:
We will assign each note a duration value or a silence. Below we present the list of how
long a note or a rest will last when written with each of these symbols:
Whole (Round) 4 Integer silence (round

times silence da) 4 times
Half silence (white

silence) 2 beats
Half (White) 2
stroke
Quarter silence (quarter
note silence) 1 beat
Fourth (Black) 1 Eighth rest (eighth note

time rest) ½ beat
Octave Sixteenth silence

(Quaver) (semicor silence chea)
½ beat ¼ time
Sixteenth Thirty-second silence

(Semiquaver) ¼ (fusa silence) 1/8 time
beat
Thirty-second
(Fuse)
1/8 time
MUSIC THEORY i
Punctilio:
When we write a note with a dot, half the value of the note is added. For example, if we
write an integer that lasts 4 beats and we write it with a dot, it will last 6 beats; Below we
present the value of dotted notes:
Dotted Integer 6 Times
Half with dot 3 Times
Dotted Quarter 1 ½ Beats
Dotted Octave ¾ Time
Dotted sixteenth 1/4 + 1/8 time
Thirty-second dotted 1/8 + 1/16 time
NOTES ON THE
KEYBOARD
On the keyboard, as you will see, there are white keys and black keys; the white keys cas
are our notes without alterations, what are the alterations?, it alters them tions are the
sharps (#) and the flats (b), that is, our black keys will be the notes with alterations whether
they are sharps (#) or flats (b). As we saw previously, the same note can receive two
different names, this is called enharmonics; We use sharps to increase the note by half a
tone, that is, one key to the right, and flats to decrease a tone, one key to the left.
And with flats they will look like this:
NOTES ON THE
KEYBOARD
If we look closely, the note B (Si) and the note E (E) do not have sharps and the note F
(Fa) and C (Do) do not have a flat.
POSTURE TO PLAY
We can play the keyboard standing or sitting depending on the taste of the player. In this
book it is recommended to study in both ways sitting and standing. The correct posture to
play sitting consists of sitting as straight as possible and having the elbows of our arms be
at the same height as the white keys of our instrument, in the same way when we play pa
Once the elbows of our arms have been adjusted, they will be at the height of the white
keys on the keyboard.
POSTURE TO PLAY
as follows:
Right hand:
1.- Thumb
2.- Index
3.- Half
4 .- Cancel
5.- Little finger
In this book we will list the fingers of the right hand and left hand
Left hand:
1 .- Thumb
2 .- Index
3 .- Half
4 .- Cancel
5 .- Little finger
As we mentioned before, the elbows of the arms should be at the height of the white keys
and the fingers of the hands should be slightly curved as if we were holding a ball.
We will press the keys in a relaxed manner and with the tips of our fingers.
The following exercises will help us begin to become familiar with digital tation of the right
hand and left hand. First we will address the right hand separately. Remember that the
keyboard is written in two keys, the treble clef and the bass clef. We must read simultaneous
notes in both clefs. The right hand will play what is written in the treble clef and the left hand.
left will play what is written in the bass clef. In the apa exercises Below our staff, read the
fingering of the right and left hands as we had seen previously, listing the fingers from 1 to 5.
Play each note with the corresponding finger. The first exercise is the following:
Exercise 1:
Exercise 2
Exercise 3:
Now the following fingering exercises are for the left hand, as in the previous exercises, the
fingering appears below our staff. ma; Play the exercises with the fingers that correspond to
each note.
Exercise 4:
EXERCISES
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In the following exercises we will begin to read simultaneous notes in the right hand and left
hand. The fingering for each hand will be the same as what we have seen previously for
each one, these exercises also help us They will help coordination between both hands.
Exercise 7:
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EXERCISES
Exercise 9:
Exercise 10:
Exercise 11:
MAJOR SCALE
The major scale is the basis of all Western music. In addition to helping us with the
technique and improve our right and left hand fingering Yes, by playing the scale we will also
be beginning to train our ear.
The first major scale we'll look at is the C scale, the C scale. Which does not alter, that is, to
play the scale we will play pure white keys cas on our keyboard. The scale is the following:
We use the C scale for right and left hand technique exercises.
The next scale we will see will be G major; we recommend this Dial all the scales that we will
see in this book the same as with the right hand and left hand technique exercises only
changing the scale throughout. Do two exercises starting at a speed of 60 BPM and from
there increase the speed in intervals of 5 BPM, that is, our next speed will be 65 BPM and so
on. We present the fingerings of the scales in both hands.
“G” scale (G) Major fingering of the right hand:
“G” major scale (G) left hand fingering:
MAJOR SCALE
“D” major scale (D) right hand fingering:
“D” major scale (D) left hand fingering:
“A” major scale (A) right hand fingering:
“A” major scale (A) left hand fingering:
“E” major scale (E) right hand fingering:
MAJOR SCALE
“E” major scale (E) left hand fingering:
“Si” major scale (B) right hand fingering:
“Si” major scale (B) left hand fingering:
“Fa” major scale (F) right hand fingering:
“Fa” major scale (F) left hand fingering:
MAJOR SCALE
“B flat” major scale (Bb) right hand fingering:
“B flat” major scale (Bb) left hand fingering:
“E flat” major scale (Eb) right hand fingering:
“E flat” major scale (Eb) left hand fingering:
“A flat” major scale (Ab) right hand fingering:
“A flat” major scale (Ab) left hand fingering:
MAJOR SCALE
“D flat” major scale (Bb) right hand fingering:
“D flat” major scale (Db) left hand fingering: 1_

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INDEX 3
INTRODUCTION 2
HISTORY OF 2
BASIC EQUIPMENT ■ 4
1.- Metronome: 4
BASIC TEAM 5
4 .- Music stand: 5
AMERICAN ENCRYPTION 6
MUSICAL THEORY 7
What is music? 7
Rhythm: 7
Melody: 7
Staff: 7
Rhythmic break: 7
MUSICAL THEORY 8
Barlines: 8
Compass: 8
The key: 8
MUSICAL THEORY 9
Notes value: 9
MUSIC THEORY i 10
Punctilio: 10
NOTES ON THE KEYBOARD 11
NOTES ON THE KEYBOARD 12
POSTURE TO PLAY 12
POSTURE TO PLAY 13
EXERCISES 15
EXERCISES 16
MAJOR SCALE 16
MAJOR SCALE 18
MAJOR SCALE 19
MAJOR SCALE 20
MAJOR SCALE 21
MINOR SCALE ■ 22
MAJOR CHORDS 27
“G flat” major scale (Gb) left hand fingering.
MINOR SCALE ■
The minor scale had its origin when it began to be used liturgically. gic for its solemn or sad
character; In reality, the minor scale contains the same notes as a major scale but starting
from a different point, that is, if we play the major scale from its sixth degree we will obtain
the minor cove. The relationship between a major and minor scale is commonly called
relative, that is, each major scale has its relative minor. Ade more like the fingering is
different than the major scale will help us me improving our technique and having a different
sound than the major scale will also help us train our ear and begin to distinguish between
major and minor, the major scale will sound more “happy” or “happy” and the minor scale will
have a more “happy” or “happy” sound. “sad” or “dark”.
The first minor scale we will look at will be the “A” minor scale. As we mentioned previously,
minor scales are derived from major scales. yores; Each major scale has its relative minor
scale, that is, it will use the same alterations as the major scale from which it comes, for
example, the “A” minor scale has the same alterations as the “C” major scale; the “A” minor
scale will have the same notes as the “C” major scale; but starting from his sixth grade.
“A” minor scale (A) right hand fingering.
“A” minor scale (A) left hand fingering.
“Mi” minor scale (E) right hand fingering.
“Mi” minor scale (E) left hand fingering.
“Si” minor scale (B) right hand fingering.
“Si” minor scale (B) left hand fingering.
“F” sharp minor scale (F#) right hand fingering.
“F” sharp minor scale (F#) left hand fingering.
“C” sharp minor scale (C#) right hand fingering.
“C” sharp minor scale (C#) left hand fingering.
“G” sharp minor scale (G#) right hand fingering.
“G” sharp minor scale (G#) left hand fingering.
“D” minor scale (D) right hand fingering.
“G” minor scale (G) right hand fingering.
“G” minor scale (G) left hand fingering.
“C” minor scale (C) right hand fingering.
“C” minor scale (C) left hand fingering.
Minor scale of “Fa” (F) fingering of the right hand.
Minor scale of “Fa” (F) fingering of the left hand.
“B” flat minor scale (Bb) right hand fingering.
“B” flat minor scale (Bb) left hand fingering.
“E” flat minor scale (Eb) right hand fingering.
MAJOR CHORDS
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5 .- Lectern or keyboard base: The base of the

6- Keyboard case or hard case: The

Whole (Round) 4 Integer silence (round

Half silence (white

Fourth (Black) 1 Eighth rest (eighth note

Octave Sixteenth silence

Sixteenth Thirty-second silence

Dotted Integer 6 Times

Half with dot 3 Times

Dotted Quarter 1 ½ Beats

Dotted Octave ¾ Time

Dotted sixteenth 1/4 + 1/8 time

Thirty-second dotted 1/8 + 1/16 time

And with flats they will look like this:

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“G” scale (G) Major fingering of the right hand:

“G” major scale (G) left hand fingering:

“D” major scale (D) left hand fingering:

“A” major scale (A) right hand fingering:

“A” major scale (A) left hand fingering:

“E” major scale (E) right hand fingering:

“Si” major scale (B) right hand fingering:

“Si” major scale (B) left hand fingering:

“Fa” major scale (F) right hand fingering:

“Fa” major scale (F) left hand fingering:

“B flat” major scale (Bb) left hand fingering:

“E flat” major scale (Eb) right hand fingering:

“E flat” major scale (Eb) left hand fingering:

“A flat” major scale (Ab) right hand fingering:

“A flat” major scale (Ab) left hand fingering:

“D flat” major scale (Db) left hand fingering: 1_

“G flat” major scale (Gb) left hand fingering.

“A” minor scale (A) right hand fingering.

“Mi” minor scale (E) left hand fingering.

“Si” minor scale (B) right hand fingering.

“Si” minor scale (B) left hand fingering.

“F” sharp minor scale (F#) right hand fingering.

“F” sharp minor scale (F#) left hand fingering.

“C” sharp minor scale (C#) left hand fingering.

“G” sharp minor scale (G#) right hand fingering.

“G” sharp minor scale (G#) left hand fingering.

“D” minor scale (D) right hand fingering.

“G” minor scale (G) right hand fingering.

“G” minor scale (G) left hand fingering.

“C” minor scale (C) left hand fingering.

Minor scale of “Fa” (F) fingering of the right hand.

Minor scale of “Fa” (F) fingering of the left hand.

“B” flat minor scale (Bb) right hand fingering.

“B” flat minor scale (Bb) left hand fingering.

“E” flat minor scale (Eb) right hand fingering.

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