Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The second Alfred Adult book has 15 chapters (some quite small), including an extensive review section as the first chapter, and contains 42 pieces. Make the effort to figure out how to play pieces where you don't know the tune, without help from external sources, because this really embeds the knowledge.

Talk about a party trick, which given I couldn't play a single other tune, even Chopsticks, was no mean feat.

The next adult series I’ll be talking about on this channel is the Piano Adventures one, so stay tuned for that. Of course practice more than 20 minutes when you're enjoying it, but get your 20 minutes in every day no matter what. Other popular series include the Piano Adventures for adults and the John Thompson piano course, both of which I plan to cover on this channel in the coming months. Is there a MP3 out there of the CD content (since my laptop doesn't have a cd player), or someone who want to share this with me? It contains outstanding songs such as "The Entertainer," "Scarborough Fair," "Greensleeves" and "Amazing Grace.

It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that will include lesson, theory, and technique in a convenient, all-in-one" format. Because of that, the lessons in each of the books can be stretched out comfortably to a year (or six months for a very motivated and impatient student willing to work twice as hard). But once you get through that stormy patch, the going is pretty good again right up to “Go Down, Moses” on page 85.Sounds a bit of a basic oversight if you ask me, but the exercises in the all in one book have really started to help me nail this. The downside of a chord-based approach is that your left hand won’t be as equipped to deal with Classical music if you’re headed that route. The real danger for self learners is a tendency to want to do everything today, and so they rush through pieces and never really learn to play them well.

My current teacher uses Faber (Accelerated Older Beginner) and then PA for late elementary and beyond. The other advantage of Alfred's method is that on this very forum there is a separate thread devoted for each level. Já havia pensando em iniciar os estudos antes e esse livro me chamou a atenção pelas inúmeras avaliações positivas. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A beginner usually has a ton of fire and motivation when they first start learning the piano, and this overcomes some of the hokeyness of earlier pieces.

A lot of the books I thought I'd want didn't work for me when I finally got them in my hands, and a lot of other books, which I didn't consider or hadn't heard of, were fantastic and had me coming back for more. By this point in the journey you start to realize that the path to learning piano is a long and sometimes arduous one. Ainda estou no começo dos estudos, mas contente com meu progresso e já pensando em quando poderei iniciar os outros livros do mesmo método. There's a sizeable amount of theory included and a good range of pieces, as well as some decent material on chords.