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Alfred's Group Piano for Adults Student Book 1 (Second Edition): An Innovative Method Enhanced With Audio and Midi Files for Practice and Performance (Alfred's Group Piano for Adults)

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Although this book is designed as a semester (college level) course for a group, I use it as a supplement to my regular lesson book. The exercises are very short and give me a good sense of accomplishment at being able to play them straight through with little practice. However, I wouldn't classify this as just a beginner's book. It may start out easy, but it progresses very rapidly. It helped me a lot with my timing and gave me lots of practice with difficult key signatures. Almost all of the exercises offer opportunities for transposing and improvising. I found this very helpful in understanding and reinforcing music theory. Some of the exercises are designed for groups (like the forty-finger exercise), but I either skip over them or play each part separately. There are also quite a few duets that I can play with my teacher. The CD is a great bonus! I was able to download the files to my computer and burn all 14 audio CDs!! I definitely recommend this book to any beginner or early intermediate student.

My son is 17 and just began piano lessons with this book. He is excelling rapidly
after only 4 lessons. The book also addresses many other aspects of learning the language of music. Two thumbs up!

This music book is great in new style, very fantastic, but maybe the repertoire pieces are not so many for choosing while students have to choose for performing. If we have more easy and harder pieces for repertoire, that will be very nice. Thank you.

Although I dropped the class that required this as a textbook, it's quality was really good especially for beginners.
It was ABSOLUTELY new book, thank you:)

The book overall is okay..the cd that comes along with it, for a very beginner goes along a little fast. Other than that the book is good for beginners and helps you to advance.

This product was perfectly intact. No written on pages or anything. It even cam with the CD

It's a good book. The only thing I don't like it is that it's too heavy

I had only played the piano only like once or twice, but this book makes it easy to understand as well as easy to follow.

SERIES: Alfred's Group Piano for Adults
CATEGORY: Piano - Alfred's Group Piano for Adults
FORMAT: Book & CD-ROM
EDITION: 2nd
The Second Edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1, includes updates inspired by numerous recommendations from group piano teachers and students. This book includes a CD-ROM containing both Audio and General MIDI Files of the 500+ accompaniments included in the text, each with an interesting and engaging arrangement coupled with the piano part. Designed for collegiate non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience, the easy-to-use text contains 26 units, each intended to be covered in one week, thus fulfilling two semesters or three quarters of study. Theory, technique, sight-reading, repertoire, harmonization, improvisation and ensemble activities are taught thoroughly and consistently throughout the text. Book 1 is 360 pages.