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[eBook] Free: "Learn to Play Piano" (A Step by Step Guide to Playing The Piano and Reading Piano Music) $0 @ Amazon AU, US

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LEARN TO PLAY PIANO: a step by step guide to playing the piano
A really easy and fun to follow course - perfect for all students.

This book includes a number of worksheets (which cannot be completed in a digital book). Copies of these can be downloaded free from my website for printing at home. (Website address can be found at the end of the book).

You may like to consider buying the printed copy of this book as you will then be given the opportunity to also have a free copy of the Kindle book.

This attractive course features:
• New skills introduced one step at a time
• Simple arrangements of well know tunes
• Original tunes in a variety of styles
• Written by a piano teacher with over 20 years experience
• Designed to match the abilities and interests of early teens and older juniors.
• Just the correct balance between new material and repetition so that students retain what they learn.

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  • MS Paint on 06/02/2023 - 18:40
    +10

    Thanks. Had a quick skim read and currently playing Chopin – Étude Op. 10 No. 4 as my first song.

    • Setiawan on 06/02/2023 - 22:07

      Am actually learning this right now! I was prepared to spend a few months on it but glad to know there is an easier way

  • Dr Fruit on 06/02/2023 - 19:02
    +5

    Got it. Hosting my recital at the Carnegie Hall tomorrow. Let me know if you need tickets.

    • MS Paint on 06/02/2023 - 19:07
      +1

      Purchased 4 tickets and 4 first class tickets on QFA1. See you tomoz.

    • taki on 06/02/2023 - 19:23
      +2

      I'm doing my concert at Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. I might have few left tickets ;)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zvPNvqOho0

      • tharlow on 06/02/2023 - 21:38
        +1

        Darn — I desperately wanted a front-and-centre ticket

        • taki on 06/02/2023 - 23:50
          +2

          Everything is possible in Russia, but you have to pay in rubles (the price will go up ;)

    • BeauKilla on 06/02/2023 - 20:13

      Wow how did you get that good?

  • tsunamisurfer on 06/02/2023 - 19:09
    +4

    I would settle for the first bits of Canon in D.

    But cannot get the chords.

    Really respect people who can play the piano.

    • King Steuart on 07/02/2023 - 06:44

      C, g, a, e, f, c, f, g

      • tanguyen on 07/02/2023 - 09:07

        ** D, A, Bm, F#, G, D, G, A

  • MonkDog on 06/02/2023 - 19:20
    +8

    You purchased this item on 26 July 2020.

    Geez I must be good at piano by now!

  • blur on 06/02/2023 - 19:21

    I wonder if there’s a intermediate/advanced versions of self-guided learning books similar to this one? I’m not sure what it would look like but

    I’m intermediate myself (AMEB Grade 6 Leisure was the last exam I did) that quit a few years ago. Would love to get back into it but don’t want to commit to lessons.

    • bboarder on 06/02/2023 - 20:15

      Yeah I was super motivated working through the Alfred Basic Adult books, but looking for something else to move onto now.

    • Setiawan on 06/02/2023 - 22:05

      Why not just continue playing what you like? By grade 6 you should be able to read sheet music and have decent enough technique.

  • bennybaubles on 06/02/2023 - 19:48

    This guy got me to be able to play the chords at the start of John Legends all of me in about 2 hours.
    https://youtu.be/wwm2RI8fBeQ

  • King Steuart on 07/02/2023 - 06:46

    Thanks, I'm teaching my daughter to play and it's surprisingly hard to find free sheets.

    Edit: ok I just had a look through and it's 40 pages of the most basic pieces you'd think, ending with Jingle Bells which my daughter can already play.

    There are some accompanying pieces throughout, but for the student it's all single-hand pieces despite introducing left hand theory on the first page.

    • [Deactivated] on 08/02/2023 - 16:05
      +2

      Not if you know where to look. ;-)

    • [Deactivated] on 08/02/2023 - 16:24
      +1

      And if you're more after classical then: https://imslp.org & https://www.8notes.com
      Public domain stuff: https://musopen.org
      Other styles: https://www.free-scores.com

      • King Steuart on 08/02/2023 - 16:26

        Thanks! I've bookmarked it all.

        • [Deactivated] on 08/02/2023 - 16:55
          +1

          You're welcome. ;-) Btw… you probably know this, but I've heard the "Alfred" books don't teach left hand independence/skills like a "proper" classical training does. Plus it's difficult to unlearn bad playing habits. I'm self-taught on guitar. I can play quite well but at some point I hit a wall and now have to go back and relearn the correct way. Very frustrating. Apparently changing bad habits on piano is even worse. I keep reading from people who play quite well, that you should go to a proper teacher at least until you have the hand position and other basics down pat. Read more on https://forum.pianoworld.com

          Anyway, the Alfred books may be all that's needed for some, but thought it was worth mentioning. They were available on scribd for free (last time I looked a few years ago).

          There's a lot of sheet music available as torrents. If you use a torrent index/search site like thepiratebay to find them, be aware you'll get a lot of "pron" popups. You can block those by installing "ad blocker" extensions in your browser. (I thought I'd mention this since you mentioned your daughter.) i.e. Click the three horizontal lines at the top right of your browser, look for "Extensions" or "Add-ons" then type "ad blocker" into the search field. Add a few different ones with the most downloads because running just one usually doesn't block them all. You can always remove them again later (too many plugins slow your browser down). Without them, if you go to a site like thepiratebay, every time you click on something it pops up some new batch of filth.

          I use ALL these extensions/add-ons in Firefox running at the same time. They're probably available for Chrome too:

          • AdBlocker Ultimate
          • Ghostery
          • uBlock Origin
          • Image Block (by Hemant Vats). This one is a bit more obscure so you'll have to scroll down a bit to find it. Years ago it was one of the only ones that removed a bunch of junk from sites like Gumtree and thepiratebay. Maybe one of the others can do it now too though.

          There's also "Youtube ad blocker/s" if you plan to use piano tutorial videos from there. (It would drive someone absolutely nuts having their practice constantly interrupted by ads if trying to learn that way.)

          • King Steuart on 08/02/2023 - 17:12

            @[Deactivated]: Cheers. How well can you play guitar? Serenade a girl well or classical gas well?

            • [Deactivated] on 08/02/2023 - 19:44
              +1

              @King Steuart: LOL. Well I have written a song for my wife, but I'm a play-by-ear, barr chords player, can't read tablature, no idea about scales or individual notes, mainly strumming, very little picking and what I can do of that I class as random fumbling about that "mostly sounds nice." People we know often comment they wish they could play like I do, but I'm far from satisfied with it. So somewhere between the two I expect.

  • Ozjoey on 07/02/2023 - 07:50
    -2

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/573790
    Already posted in 2020. Read comments.

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