Love photography, but want to build your skills and shoot like a professional?  Do you or someone you know want to learn to play piano but from the comfort of home?

With this item, you can do just that...

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National Geographic Fundamentals of Photography - Course Overview:

With Fundamentals of Photography, you'll learn everything you need to know about the art and craft of great photography straight from a professional photographer with more than 30 years of experience. Designed for people at all levels, these 24 lectures are an engaging guide to how photographs work and how to make them work better for you. National Geographic contributing photographer Joel Sartore has crafted a course that will hone your photographer's eye so you can capture the greatest moments in nearly every situation and setting imaginable, from a field of flowers to a friend's birthday party to a grand mountain range. Taking you both inside the photographer's studio and out into the field, this course is a chance to learn, in a way anyone can grasp, the basic insights and hidden secrets of photography.

How to Play Piano - Course Overview:

How to Play Piano is your opportunity to pick up the marvelous skill of playing the piano. Taught by acclaimed pianist Professor Pamela D. Pike of Louisiana State University, these 36 accessible lessons give you the building blocks you need to go from an interested novice to an expressive and talented player, whether you have a grand piano or a simple electronic keyboard to work with.

Blending music theory and history with hands-on examples and step-by-step instruction, Professor Pike takes you on a journey from learning how to sit at the piano in the first place to inverting chords, arpeggios, sight-reading, and much more. The secret to this course is that Professor Pike invites you to learn by playing. You will be at the piano from minute one—and, in fact, you will learn how to play a melody from Beethoven's Ode to Joy by the end of the first lesson.

Among other things, you will:

• Learn basic scales and chords, and how to adapt them.


• Walk through simple, easy-to-play practice pieces, ranging from popular standards to holiday staples.


• Gain insight into the basic structure of music, how to build harmony, and how to improvise.


• Hone your ability to play “by ear” and sight-read music notation.


• Explore a range of different styles, which are all accessible and suited for the piano, from classical masterpieces to jazz, folk, blues, and even rock 'n' roll.