Alfred's Basic Adult All-In-One Course, Bk 1: Lesson * Theory * Technic, Comb Bound Book

Binding is good, helps to turn pages

I like the presentation of the content in this book, very interesting. Multi color print with good quality pages. the comb is also good to use it on piano. Gradually it increases the difficulty level and its good for the learner. Thanks to Publisher and authors of this book. The book came in not so good packaging and its cover page was bit bent. Seller has to take care of good packaging as this is costly book and Buyer wishes to get it in mint condition. though it was arrived on time. In short its recommended to purchase for the effective learning. PS: I received only the book and there was no Audio CD but we can get the pieces on youtube easily. so no need of CD.

I am a self learner of piano from past 1 year and I used this book initially as a PDF but decided to get the hard copy as I found it good for developing proper two hand playing fundamentals and gradually move to more complex classical pieces (and not just play easy pop songs) for which I feel being able to read sheet music is essential and this book does a good job at explaining those concepts.

I just got the book and sat infront of my piano. The book is good and the binding is better. The thing I noticed that they are illegally charging more for this book. I scraped out the back price level of 20.99USD and found out that it is 16.99 USD. Obviously they are charging more than they should. on page 25, somebody wrote something donot know if it comes with the book. Though with all the flaws it is a book worth buying if your pocket allows

Follow it page by page....with everyday practice maybe in 3 months you can complete it. Its too too too damn good . 7 stars

I have used this book and the Level 2 and Level 3 books in the past myself, and purchased it again for one of my students. It will not fail to deliver results you expect. Not only does it teach you how to play the Piano, it also teaches you how to read/write music notation, and also the essentials of music theory needed to play. Good luck with your learning!

It's a very simple Piano learning book for beginners. Very easy to understand language - my 5 yrs old son is learning from the same and he finds it quite good. Highly recommended for serious learners :)

I am yet to start the piano lesson. So cannot comment on the content, I had bought it based on the review. I have seen few comments which says DVD missing, I found it sticked to inside of back cover. I am not sure if there are any audio CD as well for play along practice, any way doesnt matter as we can find many on the internet.

I just got it today and burned through first 4 chapters. For full disclosure - I played a piano for like 6 months when I was a kid and I have basics in music reading, but even if I didn't have these essentials, this book literally delivers new concepts with such ease, that my only regret is not discovering it sooner! I am trying to find the access to the videos which go along the book, as CD nowadays is unfortunately useless - I have no CD player, nor the laptop, nor the desctop has one. There is one review comment here which downmarks this book and learning system because the terminology in American English. I am sorry but that's ridiculous, especially in this day and age with all the tech around. I was 25 when I came to the UK nearly 22 years ago, and I could barely string a sentence in English, and without curent tech I had to rely on huge paper dictionaries. If I, a foreigner, for whom English is a 3rd language managing to understand the US terninology, with the help of Google, then I am struggling to understand how a native English speaker cannot survive without Alfred's text books 'translated' from English language to English language - all you have to do, if it is confusing to you, is to pencil in the meaning in UK terminology in the book, or make flashcard dictionary to later refer to. For example when learning about time signatures a word 'measure' came up. So taking into consideration that the author spoke about the total number of beat in 1 measure I deduced that the measure is a bar in UK's terms, and Googled confirmed this. Despite trying many different techniques over the years I was unable to move from the Do-Re-Mi system to C-D-E no matter how much I tried (I do-re-mi'ed from the age of 6 for 10 years of 3 rehearsals per week 2.5 hours per rehearsal. So Do-Re-Mi is like my native mother tongue which is inbeded at the deepest level. What I do to deal with it, is by translating the notes. So if there are people who are not happy about crocthet being called a quarter, which what it actually is, please remember that there are some who have to translate not just notes, but also chords, various scales etc. Actually I have to translate most of this book, because the language in the book is subject specific, and I welcome the challenge - the very reason I decided to play was to challenge myself, and it would be equally challenging had I had the UK English version of this same book!

Muy útil y práctico para las clases de piano, llega en buenas condiciones. El contenido bastante completo. Obviamente viene todo en Inglés.

Ho provato diversi libri per lo studio del pianoforte, tra cui lo Stark, Pianorama e James Bastien, ma questo è assolutamente il migliore. La musica è come una lingua straniera, va ascoltata oltre che suonata e per quasi ogni brano c'è un CD (o youtube, un sacco di pianisti hanno riproposto i brani) che riproduce gli spartiti. Lo consiglio

J'utilise cette méthode en parallèle de mes cours en école de musique. Elle m'est très utile car elle me permets de travailler progressivement : exercices des doigts, apprentissage des accords, enchaînement des accords. Tout cela avec des morceaux simples et progressifs en parallèle des exercices.

The best piano book ever!! It got me interested and I finally started my journey to learn piano with efficiency. I almost finished it, playing almost 1 year.