Keyboard Essentials is aimed at all who want to learn to play keyboards successfully in methodically thought-out teaching units with the aid of popular songs and useful tips, though tutoring or private study. It is aimed at beginners of all ages but also, for example, wind players, singers or guitarists who want to become musical 'insiders' and who though playing the keyboard see an introduction to improvidation, composition, harmony, etc. On the keyboard in particular, with its clearly arranged, regular structure of keys, scales, chords, and harmonic relations are presented more clearly and systematically than on any other instrument. Musicians with previous knowledge may join in at volume 2 or 3. Triplets · Musical performance · Test 1 · Improvising 1 (Neighbouring-note technique) · Composing 1 (Melody puzzle) · Test 2 · Perfect, major and minor intervals · Harmony 1 (Major and minor triads) · The Blues · Improvisig 2 (A new neighbouring-note technique) · Composing 2 (Melody puzzle and neighbouring-note technique) · Test 3 · Harmony 2 (Inversions of the triad) · The chromatic scale · Improvising 3 (Combination of the neighbouring-note techniques) · Composing 3 (The basic triads7How to harmonize a melody) Test 4 · Improvising 4 (Suspended notes and neighbouring notes) · Composing 4 (More building blocks) · Harmony 4 (Harmonizing) · Test 5 · SFC Chord Tables (I-III) · Chord Table IV, Fingered Chords · Index of songs and pieces · Solutions to the tests