Product Description

Do you wish you'd learnt to play the piano when you were younger or that you hadn't given up? Then this book is for you - because it's never too late! At last a truly grown-up approach to learning the piano. Pam Wedgwood, author of many popular piano series, takes you through the rudiments of piano technique and music theory in her own friendly style that's guaranteed to get results. The book is organized into clearly structured progressive units with a fabulous array of music to get you playing straight away, including Pam's own jazzy pieces, plenty of well-known classics and a smattering of pop and show tunes.Help and information is included at every step with top playing tips, technical boxes, fact files, general advice noticeboards, crosswords, recommended listening and boxes of fascinating musical history. The CD is packed with over 90 backing tracks as well as interactive activities to help you practice and a unique Pam Wedgwood site includes optional extras such as an opportunity to ask Pam your questions, optional teacher's accompaniment parts and more! This is an extensively revised and updated new edition for a new generation of beginners - proving it really is never too late.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2312 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Basic piano tuition - all you need to know to get you started.
This is a great book - as long as you go through every section and don't be tempted to jump ahead to the more exciting stuff, you will be reading music and knocking out simple tunes in no time. I learned to play basic piano when I was about 11 and 30 years later, having forgotten absolutely everything, found this book ideal. It tells you everything you need to know and tests you from time to time to check you're paying attention.

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Book is great! I have a fantastic Piano teacher and we are working through it together, but the CD is useless, I want to know what I should sound like and sometimes I'm not sure it's even the same track!

Good, fun book to work with...
I have purchased this book last month and at first like some customers was confused with the CD. CD won't show you how the exercises should be played it serves a purpose of accompaniment, so that easy exercises in the beggining are not boring to play! It is actually fun playing together with the CD! Even my housemates are having fun(although they are not the ones playing!) However, I do believe for the first 4 lessons you can download examples of the exercises from author's webpage(sorry if I'm wrong about this I haven't actually used this option) but you will be fine with the exercises if you have a metronome(many keyboards have one build in) if you don't I would suggest to buy one! It would be a great help with your practice and getting your whole, minim and crotchet notes right, as well as helping to improve your speed.
The book itself is also very good. It progresses logicly in my opinion from the very begining. At first author explains about notes and their lengths, time signatures and the notes themselves. This book doesn't rush and explains one thing at a time, in small chunks so that theory is taken in almost on "as you go" basis. At the same time theory doesn't take much space and you have lots of practice exercises!So you do actually play unlike some books.
First lesson focuses on your right hand, second lesson on your left and lesson three on both hands together. Further lesson bring in new notes and techniques. (By the end of lesson 1 and 2 you will be using five notes on treble clef and 5 on the bass clef, adding new notes in further lessons)
I would greatly recommend this book to any begginer keyboard player! You'll enjoy it!