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Rating: 3.5 / 5.00 (38 reviews)
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Manufacturer: For Dummies
Piano for Dummies Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 786.2071
EAN: 9780764551055
ISBN: 0764551051
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 1998-09-18
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies
Piano for Dummies Reviews
Customer Rating:Summary: Great for beginners
Comment: I did not have any idea how to play a piano-this book really helps explain in an easy to understand format.
Customer Rating:
Summary: really for dummies...
Comment: It was my first "for dummies" book and most probably the last. The book is big and empty; the author should have used at most 50 pages. The CD contains short musical clips that you've probably heard before or you can download for free. I gave it two stars because the book actually helps a small tiny bit contrary to its size.
I recommend instead "Alfred's Group Piano for Adults" it's much better but I'm not sure if it's the best one out there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Piano for Dummies
Comment: I like this book, well organized and easy to follow instructions. Easy to read to. Basic concepts are covered with some expanded details. Definitely recommend to other for its well written.
Customer Rating:
Summary: easy to read
Comment: This is an excellent book for teaching yourself piano. All the reviewers who slam this book for corny humor can go jump in a lake. There are plenty of serious music books that just shovel out the facts in a dry manner, so if that is what you want, fine, no reason to get uptight about a book that trys to use a more human touch. I want to also make it clear that the book does not tell jokes per say, so you dont have to read through long groaners to get to the material. The author simply interjects personal examples. Its a technique that is used in all the dummies books, if you dont like it, dont read dummies books.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An easy way to learn...
Comment: It's very easy to learn piano with the this book and it's really funny. You learn without the stress of a regular "learning manual".
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Editorial Review for Piano for Dummies:
At first glance, a piano may seem like an intimidating instrument that would be very difficult to learn how to play, but despite what your seventh-grade piano teacher may say, playing piano isn't brain surgery. It just takes time, practice, and patience.Piano For Dummies starts at the very beginning and walks you through everything you need to know to turn that oversized hunk of furniture into an instrument that can make beautiful music. If you don't know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory and applying it to playing the piano. And if you've been playing piano for a while – or took piano lessons when you were a child but haven't played since – you can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing or use the book as a refresher course.
Here are some of the topics you'll find in Piano For Dummies:
- Buying a piano: Acoustic versus electronic
- How a piano works, and how to care for one
- Left- and right-hand piano techniques
- Examining keys, scales, melodies, harmonies, and chords
- Plenty of musical examples to play
- The history of piano musical styles
- Advice for piano teachers
- A Top Ten list of pianists you should know about
Piano For Dummies also includes a glossary and a free CD, which includes audio of all of the examples in the book so that you can play along.
So if you've always wanted to learn to play piano, but you don't have the time to take piano lessons, you can pick up the basics in Piano For Dummies; you'll be tickling the ivories with ease in no time!