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! The contents are suitable for piano and or electronic keyboard. Items covered include - Buying your first keyboard or piano - Reading music from scratch - Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability - Hundreds of clear diagrams graphics - 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 - Arpeggios in keyboard and notation view - Arpeggio exercises - Playing from a Fake Book with and without auto-accompaniment - Plus, more! After completing this book, you should have a good basic understanding of music theory as well as a good basic playing technique, paving the way for more advanced study in your chosen field - jazz, blues, pop, cl