The Complete Piano Player: Book 1 | Piano Songbook | Popular Songs and Light Classics Sheet Music | Beginner Course with Fingering Diagrams | Progressive Lessons and Practice Guide for Students

This book was recommended to me by a professional music teacher. I am an absolute beginner and found it very clearly written, with simple exercises that give you the confidence to progress to actually playing basic tunes at a very early stage.

As someone who, rather late in life, wanted to learn to play piano, I had tried two or three other books which although good enough, once I got this book on the recommendation of my piano teacher, I've not looked back and used it exclusively since. It takes you through the very basics of piano playing, supported by excellent diagrams and well known [to me at least], 60's and 70's tunes, each just a little trickier than the previous. The CD that comes with it is an extra useful touch to give you some idea of the rhythm of every tune, providing you have a CD player close to your piano/keyboard so that you can stop/start it without leaving the keys. I highly recommend this book to adult beginners, so much so that I have already bought Book 2.

The book would be perfect for complete beginners to music, as it takes you through the music learning process slowly and step by step. For me, I already know all of the music theory from playing numerous other instruments for many years so was a little frustrating at times as I already know how to read music, however I was patient because I am relatively new to piano and still must learn things that are piano-specific! It looks to be a really good course for learning piano, with 5 books total (only the first 3 have CD versions though). I look forward to completing more books in the series.

There was no choice for me: it was recommended by my piano teacher and I had to buy it. That said, it has proved entirely satisfactory and I'm happy.

The paper keyboard overlay is a godsend. I can't read music, so this helped enormously. The book was easy to follow, non threatening and in logical stages. I surprised myself with being able to get through this quite easily and I'm a first time player in my mid forties. I did like consolidating my learning by going back over old lessons and realising that I had improved, because I found stuff easier second time around. Give it a go!

It is book 1, but it shows the correct posture, the fingers, with the numbers to work with in a perfomance, how to understand a written musical language with exercises to starting write in musical language as well.The tones, very well illustrated. It works with some music already what helps to encourage the student.

I recently acquired a keyboard and decided to learn ho to play it. I remember from years ago a book for guitarists of the same brand that I had used to get me started on guitar... With this piano book I was not disappointed..I am now playing tunes on the keyboard in a relatively short time. If like me you want to learn..easily and in a short period of time to keep your interest going..this is the book.

I bought this book for a friend a few years ago, then it came with a card 'Complete keyboard guide' which you placed on the piano keys whilst you learnt. It was very useful. The cover of the book I have just purchased shows said card, but there wasn't one with it - disappointing. Have they stopped supplying this or was it just missing from my parcel?