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Piano Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Piano Songs, Read Music, Theory & Technique (Book & Streaming Video Lessons) Paperback – July 23, 2017

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This book and streaming video course is all that you will ever need for getting started playing the most famous and cherished piano classics!

Piano Professor, Damon Ferrante guides you through how to play the piano with step-by-step lessons for beginners and 20 streaming video lessons.

This easy-to-follow method, used by thousands of piano students and teachers, is designed to be interactive, engaging and fun.

No music reading is required! Learn great piano songs!

The lessons will greatly expand your repertoire of beloved piano songs and improve your piano technique, creativity, and understanding of music. Whether you are teaching yourself piano or learning with a music instructor, this book and streaming video course will take your piano playing to a whole new level!

Ask yourself this:

1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play famous piano pieces, but did not know where to start?

2. Did you start piano lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult?

3. Are you struggling to follow online piano lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency?

4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the piano through an affordable, step-by-step book and video course?

If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then this beginner piano book and video course is definitely for you!

The following great music is covered in this book and streaming video course:

* Für Elise by Beethoven

* The Entertainer by Scott Joplin

* Amazing Grace

* Pachelbel's Canon

* House of the Rising Sun

* Scarborough Fair

* Turkish Rondo by Mozart

* Shenandoah

* Happy Birthday

* Danny Boy

* Kum-Bah-Yah

* Jingle Bells

* J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Major

* Home on the Range

* This Little Light of Mine

* Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg

* Take Me Out to the Ballgame

* Red River Valley

* Silent Night

* New World Symphony Theme

* When the Saints Go Marching In

* Greensleeves

* Aura Lee

* Brahms' Famous Lullaby

* Simple Gifts

* And Many More Great Songs and Pieces!

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Widely regarded among professional musicians, teachers, and students for his books' power to inspire a deeper understanding and passion for music, Damon Ferrante is a composer, guitarist, and professor of piano studies and music theory.

He is the recipient of Longwood University's prestigious Simkins Award for his extraordinary achievements and contribution to music education and culture.Damon has taught on the music faculties of Seton Hall University and Montclair State University. For over 25 years, Damon has taught guitar, piano, composition, and music theory.Damon has had performances at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

His main teachers have been David Rakowski at Columbia University, Stanley Wolfe at Juilliard, and Bruno Amato at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Damon has written two operas, a guitar concerto, song cycles, orchestral music, and numerous solo and chamber music works.

He is the editor-in-chief of the music publisher Steeplechase Arts.Check out steeplechasemusic.com for more information and free bonus lessons for the books.

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Paperback: 122 pages
Publisher: Steeplechase Arts (July 23, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0692926437
ISBN-13: 978-0692926437
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.3 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 950 customer ratings
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Piano
- #1 in Piano & Keyboards
- #1 in Music Appreciation (Books)

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Patrick Kelly

Great way to start!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017

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I had been wanting to learn piano for a while, and when this was suggested to me, I jumped right on it. This is not the first piano book I've used, but it's definitely one of the best. It gives a simple breakdown on chord progression and even more simple than that, basic finger patterns and technique. It also comes with a big list of songs that you can learn, a lot of them beautiful songs. As with other books, you can't use the videos on a kindle paperwhite. Perhaps a kindle fire? I'm not entirely sure. But the book itself is super easy to comprehend even without the videos. My favorite thing about the book is the breakdown with left hand songs and right hand songs. Which eventually leads up to songs that use two hands. It breaks it down for you in the beginning and as you get better, it adds challenge. Which is wonderful.

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V.L.N

Not worth the money if you can't get an actual book!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2018

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Only downloads to your phone, not an actual book you use for the piano!

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bodineeeee

Highly recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017

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I really enjoy this piano book! I always wished I could play but never got the chance to as a kid/have never really gotten around to it as an adult. I've looked up beginner tips online here and there but they were never that helpful, videos by people on YouTube were hard to keep up with, etc. The fact that this book has videos that go hand in hand with the material is what makes this book stand out. I'm a more visual learner so if there's a video tutorial that goes along with written material, learning is that much easier for me. It's like I'm in an actual piano lesson. So thanks for that!

Also, learning music is something I've always struggled with. I had music class one year in elementary school and we had to learn to read music. It was so confusing (it didn't help that we didn't have books and the teacher didn't explain it very well). The section with the acronym EGBDF made it a lot easier to get this time around. Would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn piano. Can't wait to keep learning!

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It is easy to follow and is suitable for people who do ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017

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Very well written book. It is easy to follow and is suitable for people who do not have any prior knowledge on how to play the piano like myself. The language used is easy to understand and not complicated. It's a simple, yet effective book to guide a beginner. Overall I would rate it a great book which is worth it.

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tami smith

Perfect for beginners, if you’ve never played before, get this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2020

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I’ve never taken piano before and this book is perfect for that. In the beginning it focuses on hand positions and Piano key recognition. The note reading is gradual and easy, the book also tells you where to place your fingers. My piano teacher uses this book during our lessons and she seems to like it. I’m finally getting to the point where I can play simple songs. That’s gives you feeling of accomplishment. The videos are helpful too if you get stuck.

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Rick Thompson

A good start but the book could be designed better

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019

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This is a good start and, while comprehensive, I can already tell that it should be supplemented with lots of other materials to get a holistic introduction to piano. I'm enjoying what I'm learning so far, but I can already tell that what I'm going to learn from this book will be limited solely for two big technical reasons. The first is that the sheet music is printed too small to see clearly, and as a beginner who is new to sheet music entirely this is not helpful. There are letters written in some of the musical notes to help you learn the positions of notes on the staff, but the printing is so tiny that it's impossible to make out what's a B or D or E or F. The second is that this book is perfect bound and would be better with spiral binding so it can lie flat. The small printing is made worse when you're trying to read music that's curved into the book's gutter.

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Kim Sipes

Dig it.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have not played piano much since my college days, and I found the progression from theory to practice to be helpful for refreshing my long diminished skills. The videos were useful and high quality. I will definitely recommend this book to friends who are wanting to learn to play. I will also be using it to help my own kids in learning to play piano, and to train them in music theory.

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Dwight

Really nice method for adult with zero knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017

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This book has a format tailored for someone with absolutely no musical knowledge. What I’m saying if you know your basic theory and piano keys, etc this book is a slow start if you walk through it from start to finish. It does get you to work though midway through, dexterity and left/right hand independence.

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Andy N

The accompanying tutorial videos are easy to find on the internet and really assist in ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2018

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I am returning to the piano after a gap of about fifty years and I am finding this book really helpful.The accompanying tutorial videos are easy to find on the internet and really assist in the learning process. The tunes in the book are well known and I find this also helps the process.
Even the ones where I didn't recognise the names were familiar when I played them on u tube. I have made real progress in the month or so that I have been using the book. Happy to recommend.

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Sparkleton

Good for the basics, but not the best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2019

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For absolute beginners, this is great as it also has music theory as well. However, after carefully teaching you 5 notes or so on the treble and bass clefs, you are then expected to learn by extrapolation, and it is a HUGE jump in difficulty. If it were an instrument with just one clef, it would probably suit me just fine. But trying to learn a wide range of notes on both clefs at once all of a sudden was not good planning, and it means an increased reliance on checking the letters printed on the notes.

Also, some of the notes on the treble clef at the end of Green Slevees have been labelled incorrectly.

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Hattie

Better to buy the book not the kindle version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2018

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This book is great, but if you are trying to read the music off your tablet it is so small it's impossible to see properly, if you make larger of course you miss some of the music and have to keep fiddling around with the screen.. For some reason this book can not be rotated and read landscape which is what I expected. I am really disappointed I bought the kindle book because of the video tuition included.. All my other kindle books can be read in any orientation.

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ruth

Really good book, despite previous knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2017

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Really good book, despite previous knowledge, feel I am learning so much. Progressive nature of book means you are playing well known tunes in no time. Highly recommend.

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Mr. B. Loughlin

Works for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2020

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This actually looked a bit cheap but it's actually well thought out and isn't full of glossy unnecessary distractions like some other publications.

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Prosed

recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2018

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been working through it for a while now and though the progress has been slow (busy with other plans) it has been very handy to work through at my own pace, learning the key positions, reading music, chords, etc. Much better than the online tutorials i got with my keyboard. can't beat it.

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Brian Barton

Just what you need!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2018

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My wife is the keyboard player and says this is book excellent!

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Not easy to follow for beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2019

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No lesson plan and a lot of the music is not well known

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Sue Elder

Arrived on time and as expected.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2020

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Arrived on time, and was as expected inside with several songs to learn to play. 👍

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Lindsay G

Very Easy and Helpful Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2019

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This book is very easy and helpful for someone who is new to the piano.

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PIPSUE

LOOKS TO BE A GOOD ONE.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2017

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I've had this for just 2 days, and so far so good.

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Great starter book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2019

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Great starter book for teenage/ young adult piano beginners

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Does exactly what the book is called

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2020

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Perfect intro for an adult beginner like me.

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J.E.MURPHY

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2018

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Dreadful songs - Should have read the info a bit more!

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fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2020

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fantastic and easy

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