As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it!Items covered include:Buying your first keyboard or piano;Reading music from scratch (treble clef mainly, bass clef briefly);Easy, effective finger exercises which require minimal reading ability;Important musical symbols;Your first tunes;Audio links for 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 auto-accompaniment;Over 25 tunes included and free link to more;Plus, more!After completing this book, you will 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, etc.