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What our customer's say!

"previous piano experience required!", This should be called the "piano review" workbook. The problem with experienced teachers and authors is they don't understand the mind of the beginner. They assume we already know things, or gloss over important details, or leave them out all together.

I think the author should have spend more time proofing the materials being taught, rather than babbling on with history lessons about people that have no relevance to the topics and techniques being taught.

The total glossing over the major and minor scales is horrible. To many "see if you can figure out...." without any followup explanation to check our work. To many new concepts found in the musical examples with no explanations as to their meanings.

This is not a book for beginners. It is good for picking up a tip here and there if you already have experience.

Very disappointed.

"Good book, but not for Absolutly Beginner", This book offers a lot of value over the price, rich in information and quality of the cover and paper is so excellent. But most of the exercises are too difficult for the beginner. So I recommend to buy other books with more easier exercises or you'll give up playing piano... Anyway, recommend for buying this at least one at your shelf.

"Excellent teaching tool", This is a great book to learn from as an adult beginner. As a voice and piano teacher I run across a lot of different teaching materials. This book holds the interest of the piano student.

For Voice Check out:
Vocalize!

"Cognitive Dissonance",

This book's ambitions are tremendous within a single volume; perhaps that is the reason why it fails so monstrously. With the aim of giving the player footholds in classical, jazz, bebop, fusion and experimental music along with instruction in music theory, history and development of the modern piano dovetailed with biographies of immortal figureheads of music within the bound of 290 pages, each page is about another twenty laps around the track. What's worse is that in order to maintain its pace, the author must sacrifice valuable practice exercises designed not only to strengthen and improve performance and flexibility, but to give the player some confidence, especially for a beginner.

We are not all music prodigies, nor are we actors in a musical in which everything magically falls into place the second or third time after first becoming acquainted with the move. The book does come with a CD of how the music should sound. However, the paradigm moves as such a quick pace as to make the aspirant not only confused, but cringe at the height of the new summit of work to be called at least fairly performed.

To the beginning student, I would recommend this book only as a supplement beside a far more general piano book to serve as a test for particular skills and challenging music. For the more advanced student, still, I would urge him not to buy this since it mixes very general terms and skills with incongruous and brief music: it would be better to find a book that matched both musical difficulty with learned information.


"Great for my purpose", I am a professional pianist who wanted to get out of some bad habits.
Mr Humphrie's book takes you back to the beginning so you can undo bad habits and weaknesses you did not even know you had.
The CD is a marvellous drilling tool.
Set your CD player on repeat and you can drill until you get the the exercise right.
Yes,he progesses rapidly but if you are determined and dead serious about becoming as good as you can be,this book may be for you.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Fantastic book for anyone w/ some musical background", This book is fantastic for anyone with a basic musical background who wants or needs to learn piano. Especially great for any musician who needs to add piano. It's hard to imagine how this book could be made better, it's so close to perfect now, and a tremendous bargain at this price!

"Very bad binding", It is very difficult to use this book cause of the binding, the content is so so, want to learn, go with other books.

"An excellent course for the "post-beginner" piano student", I've found that this is a fantastic book for those, like myself, with prior musical backgrounds. While some reviewers here don't like the fact that there is not a wealth of simple, children's tunes here to teach them the fundamentals of the musical vocabulary, I find this refreshing and one of the reasons I appreciate it as much as I do.

There are plenty of books and methods available to teach beginning material such as the musical staff, clefs, sight reading, etc. through simple children's songs. Some reviewers seem to want that. I don't. I wanted a method that would teach me step by step how to play music on the piano by way of musical examples other than "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", Happy Birthday" and "Home On The Range" and the like.

I have found this book to be unique in that the author seems to respect the serious student by using simple yet interesting musical selections to comprise his beginner exercises. The author uses examples that present the fundamental beginning finger motions that one will need later on in their practicing and playing. The exercises provided, refreshingly, are NOT kid's tunes and are excellent in teaching these fundamental motions.

Some on here have complained about the lack of beginning material and that the author moves too quickly for beginners. It seems to me instead that the author actually expects each student to study and practice each exercise to perfection before moving on. By presenting a perfectly graded series of exercises that up the ante of challenge in just the right amount, I have found that my skills are increasing with each exercise I master.

I would recommend that one take their time with this course and thoroughly master each exercise to get the most out of it. I've gotten through the first 2 chapters in just about a month of daily practice and can't wait to continue working through the rest of this book.

"The right book for the thinking adult", Finally, a book that challenges and interests me right from the start! Thank you so much, Carl; I hope wherever you are, you are reading this. Even the negative reviews of this book have me excited, since it's perfect for my desires. I have only finished the first Unit, but in my opinion that's the "make-or-break" section of a method book. Each exercise really works your thinking skills and provides interesting challenges. Even the simple exercises throw in slight twists, like finger position changes, or eighth notes on the left hand for a measure, and so on.

Finally, the melodies are something I can have in my head without going nuts! That's huge for me, because the tune will echo in my head after I've learned the basic melody, and if it's a good tune (even though basic), it'll draw me back to the piano to play it out one more time. If it's a horrible little kid's tune, I have to turn on the radio for my MMRT (mental music replacement therapy), and I sure don't feel inclined to practice it. As adults, aren't we picking up piano because we are musical critters? This book rewards the musical person in me and my thinking abilities.

As an example, the last song in Unit 1 is a build-up of your previous practice, as you would expect. Do you know how many times I've slogged my way through method books to the last "big" piece, only to find it's something like "Heart of My Soul" or "Kuumbaya." GAH!! That's my cookie for getting through the Unit? (Oh, blast, now *those* tunes are in my head.) I was so thrilled, when, after playing the left hand notation and then the right hand notation, the piece in this book emerged as sweet, simple melody, kind of like one you would hear in a Jane Austen movie, and certainly one I would be happy to play in front of others! (Who would ever burden their friends with a novice rendition of Kuumbaya?)

One thing I am curious about in this and other method books. Why have readers practice the piece first with the right hand melody and then the left? I do it in reverse, since my left is clearly the least flexible and the neuro-synaptic memory paths the least developed. This is ironic, given that I've played guitar for many years, so you think that'd give me a leg up, but man, my left hand cannot dance!

Oh, yes, and if you want to gauge if this is the right book for *you*, I've played guitar for quite a few years, so I'm fairly comfortable with treble clef notation, and I've also attempted--at two separate times--to learn piano with different methods, such as the _Play By Choice_ and the Hal series. So, I've had some exposure to keyboard. If you are a total novice, I would get a very slim intro book and work that one first, but if you are a *thinking* total beginner, get the slimmest intro book you can find, because too many adult method books are not for adults, imo.

Both of the other method books just left me discouraged because there was so MUCH ground to cover before interesting material came up. I really had to slog through the exercises, and my motivation gradually declined. My guess is that a lot of piano method books are originally designed for children and then re-purposed for adults, and that just didn't work for me.

Finally, this is simply a beautifully bound book, and the spiral back very clever. What a good investment.

"extremely good", I've sifted through most of the books on piano self-teaching, which are almost universally terrible; this is easily the best that I've found. I've made a great deal of progress in a very short amount of time. The lessons are organized in a clear and helpful way; there's not a lot of rambling about the history of the piano or weak attempts at humor. Highly recommended.