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Piano Without Fear of Black Keys

About the book

A practical book about musical relationships and how they appear on different instruments. It distinguishes a note’s function, its written name, its register and its position on an instrument, developing movable patterns and exercises across keyboard, guitar and pad layouts.

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Edition

Laurenzo, Tomas. Piano Without Fear of Black Keys. Author-maintained version 1.3.

The related Musifold application offers interactive explorations of musical relationships across instrument layouts.