As the name suggests, this book has been written for the absolute beginner and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it! You will not be disappointed with this superb book which is probably the easiest and most user friendly book of its sort available! Items covered include: ¿ Buying your first keyboard or piano; ¿ Reading music from scratch; ¿ Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability; ¿ Important musical symbols; ¿ Your first tunes; ¿ Audio links for all tunes and exercises; ¿ Key signatures and transposition; ¿ Pre-scale exercises; ¿ Major and minor scales in keyboard and notation view; ¿ Chord construction; ¿ Chord fingering; ¿ Chord charts in keyboard view; ¿ Arpeggios in keyboard and notation view; ¿ Arpeggio exercises; ¿ Playing from a Fake book with and without auto accompaniment; ¿ Plus more! Please note that the Paperback version is in monochrome only.