The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano, 3rd Edition |
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| Title: | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano, 3rd Edition |
| Author: | Brad Hill |
| Publisher: | Alpha |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 03 October, 2006 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1592575641 / 9781592575640 |
| List Price: | $21.95 |
| You Save: | $7.02 |
| Amazon Price: | $14.93 |
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Product Description
A guide that hits all the right notes—now with a CD!
From reading music and learning chords, to understanding music notation or buying an instrument, an expert author tells aspiring pianists how to get started. Learn posture, positioning, fingering, notations, and drills, with advice from a master. And this new edition features an introduction to music notation, explains how to use the pedals, and offers strategies for mastering major and minor scales. It also comes with a CD with all the music in the book so you can listen and learn.
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Customer Reviews:
• Good For Starters
05 April, 2008
It's not going to make you a pro but it's a nice step towards being able to play.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not Excellent, But Not Too Bad
28 December, 2008
I've ben playng piano for over 40 years. I teach piano and also playa few other instruments, and I like to purchase different books to try to find new ideas and knowledge.
This book covers a lot of material that a person taking traditional lessons might not learn, such as history of keyboard instruments, how to chose a piano, using keyboards, etc. This is great material that can help in educating someone about their instrument. Of course, it doesn't necessarily make you a better pianist.
I agree with others that 99% of the jokes should have been left out and were actually distracting.
The material tries to cover the basics. I've yet to find one all inclusive book on how to play the piano. Piano isn't something that is possible to learn really quickly or overnight. Someone can learn to "play" something that sounds okay, but to learn all of the nuances takes years and you never really can learn everything. Playing piano is physical, mental, and coordination of the two and so many things that take years to develop--like an athlete but even more so.
So, this book, along with using some other beginning books and the necessary time put in reading and practice, can help a newbie learn to play. But, being a teacher, I do always recommend lessons. A teacher can help a beginner with technique, to stop bad habits before they become habits, and to learn to listen to what they are playing--these are very hard skills for a beginner to acquire on their own.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Sigh
26 August, 2007
Aggressively unhelpful; meandering, rambling style with terrible jokes, terrible prose, and worst of all, a dearth of actual practice lessons. The majority of the book is taken up with third-rate 'scholarship' about the history of piano-related instruments, or with minutiae about electronic keyboards. Avoid at all costs.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Will Teach You Well Beyond What You Want To Know.
22 January, 2009
I refer to this and use this as a piano teacher. Its like a dictionary for piano learning.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Playing Piano
14 August, 2009
The book arrived very promptly and in practically new condition as described in the ad. Highly recommend this dealer
- Amazon Customer Review
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