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Adult All-in-One Course: Lesson, Theory, Technique Level 1 (Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course)
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Alfred’S Basic Adult All-In-One Course Is Designed For Use With A Piano Instructor For The Beginning Student Looking For A Truly Complete Piano Course. It Is A Greatly Expanded Version Of Alfred’S Basic Adult Piano Course That Will Include Lesson, Theory, And Technique In A Convenient, All-In-One Format. This Comprehensive Course Adds Such Features As Isometric Hand Exercises, Finger Strengthening Drills, And Written Assignments That Reinforce Each Lesson’S Concepts. There Is A Smooth, Logical Progression Between Each Lesson, A Thorough Explanation Of Chord Theory And Playing Styles, And Outstanding Extra Songs, Including Folk, Classical, And Contemporary Selections. At The Completion Of This Course, The Student Will Have Learned To Play Some Of The Most Popular Music Ever Written And Will Have Gained A Good Understanding Of Basic Musical Concepts And Styles. Titles: Alouette * Alpine Melody * Amazing Grace * Au Claire De La Lune * Aunt Rhody * Auld Lang Syne * Aura Lee * The Bandleader * Beautiful Brown Eyes * Blow The Man Down * Blues For Wynton Marsalis * Brother John * Café Vienna * The Can-Can * Chasing The Blues Away * Chiapanecas * Cockles And Mussels * The Cuckoo * Day Is Done * Dueling Harmonics * The Entertainer * A Friend Like You * Go Down, Moses * Good King Wenceslas * Good Morning To You * Good People * Got Those Blues * Greensleeves * Happy Birthday To You * Harmonica Rock * Harp Song * Here’S A Happy Song * He’S Got The Whole World In His Hands * I’M Gonna Lay My Burden Down * Jericho * Jingle Bells * Joy To The World * Kum-Ba-Yah * Largo Dvorak * Lavender’S Blue * Lightly Row * Little Brown Jug * Liza Jane * London Bridge * Lone Star Waltz * Love Somebody * Lullaby * The Marine’S Hymn * Mary Ann * Merrily We Roll Along * Mexican Hat Dance * Michael, Row The Boat Ashore * Money Can’T Buy Everything * My Fifth * Ode To Joy * On Top Of Old Smoky * O Sole Mio * Raisins And Almonds * Rock Along * Rockets * Rockin’ Intervals * Rock It Away * Sc
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Additional information
| Publisher | Alfred Publishing Company Inc (1 Jan. 1994) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Plastic Comb | 160 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780882848181 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0882848181 |
| Dimensions | 29.9 x 23.57 x 1.3 cm |
by E
As a child, many moons and summers ago, I wanted to play piano, but was very impatient and gave up. Now when I see people playing beautiful music on public pianos, I admire them and wish to be able to do that. I stopped wishing, and started planning, and got myself a piano teacher. They were good for the first 8 weeks, but I felt I wasn’t being taught in the way I needed to learn. I decided to get this book instead and focus on teaching myself, plus it was more cost effective. In the 3 times I’ve opened this book, I have learnt more than i did with a teacher, in terms of reading sheet music and being able to play with both hands while reading the sheet. I’m grateful for the tutorials on video sharing sites that allow me to hear what the music is supposed to sound like to make sure im doing it right . But apart from that, I am glad I got this book and decided to learn from it. I only see myself getting better, and I am already looking to get the 2nd and 3rd book. The only thing I would add are the major, minor and other scales in colourful diagrams to make learning easier. Apart from that I’m very happy and would definitely recommend.
by Amazon Customer
Spent a great year or so learning piano at my own pace by working through different youtube excersizes, learning some songs from music books, and working through a different self help book.
It’s clear why Alfred’s gets it’s name for being a classic and a staple for home learning. It covers a wide range of topics in an ejoyable way that makes you keep wanting to turn to the next page, while teaching it at a pace that sinks in. Highly recommend. Regret not getting this on day one.
by Taya
The main issue I have with it is that it doesn’t even mention that the UK and the US use totally different musical terms and the British terms are not given in this book, whereas every British book I have at least mentions the difference so beginners are aware of it. Consequently, a lot of very happy British beginners have given 5-star reviews, apparently with no idea that they have learned entirely incorrect terminology. Whereas we in Britain use ‘crotchet’ and ‘minim’ etc., this book refers only to ‘quarter note’ and ‘half note’. More annoyingly still, a note – the kind you play as opposed to the written kind – is referred to as a ‘tone’. In the UK, a ‘tone’ is a distance between 2 notes. So the pattern for all major scales is Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Tone-Semitone. A semitone is half a tone. This will be very confusing later on if you have learned to refer to individual notes as tones. The Americans call a tone a ‘step’ and a semitone a ‘half step’.
If you are using other repertoire or teaching material for beginners, this book won’t be compatible with most of them as a lot of methods teach starting with both thumbs on middle C and the fingers moving outwards from there. This book starts with the right thumb on middle C. But the left hand starts on the C below, with the little finger on C below middle C. This means a lot of the fingering you have learned for early tunes in other books won’t apply here.
I got this book as a more adult supplement to my main beginner’s method, which is aimed at children, with the aim of expanding my repertoire. In this respect, it’ll be fine. It starts at the beginning with each hand and teaches you how to read notes from scratch too. There’s a sizeable amount of theory included and a good range of pieces, as well as some decent material on chords. The spiral-bound edition lays nice and flat but does not include the CD, not that you really need it. If you want to hear the pieces, most of them are on YouTube now.
by E. Vaughan
Brilliantly easy to follow beginners piano book. Ideal to learn from or to supplement other methods of learning.
by BB
I bought this and Smallwood’s Piano Tutor. The two complement each other – see Smallwood’s for that review. This Adult All-in-One Course is outstandingly good. I’m a bit of a weird one really. About 5 years ago I could only play one tune. It was the whole of Moonlight Sonata! I taught myself note by note by asking someone to write the names of the notes on the sheet music and basically learning it one note at a time via a ‘keyboard indicator’. It took me a year to learn the whole thing which I think took about 15 mins to play. The only reason I could attempt it was the left hand doesn’t do too much on the twiddly diddly front. I got to the point where I could play the whole thing from memory and made a darn good job of it, even though I say so myself, and even being able to keep in time with recordings (Alfred Brendel!!). What a hoot! Talk about a party trick, which given I couldn’t play a single other tune, even Chopsticks, was no mean feat. I should have been on Britain’s Got Talent! Anyway, the piano became ill and had to get rid. Five years on and I can only remember a few bars of it, which is very disappointing. I will learn it again, I’m determined! Anyway, so much for the preamble. I bought an electric piano a couple of months ago (fabulous, no-one can hear it cry!) and thought I’d try and learn from scratch properly rather than the other ludicrous home-spun method I invented. I bought ‘the complete piano player’ series and have struggled big time with that. It just seemed to me to be an unhelpful way of learning. I have just bought the All in One Course and immediately sense a difference. What was lacking in the Complete book was making a connection between where the note is on the music and where the note is on the piano! Sounds a bit of a basic oversight if you ask me, but the exercises in the all in one book have really started to help me nail this. Before, I was having to go ‘egbdf’ and ‘face’ each time in my head (on the treble clef – didn’t even start on the bass!) so striking each correct note meant having to recite this first and it was slow and laborious. I don’t supposed I’ve explained this very well but the exercises in the all in one book make total sense, are in a logical order and just make it much easier to remember which note is which. I reckon in about a year’s time I might be able to go back to Moonlight Sonata, the sheet music, and instead of working it out note by blinking note, I might have a stab at playing it. I’m hoping it will all come back to me. The good thing is that Moonlight Sonata is played on a loop in my GP surgery (very badly) on a sort of ‘doctors hits album to drown out patient’s screams’ sort of an album, along with that tune that used to be on a well known cigar advert in the 1970s. Anyway, every time I’m sitting there waiting my turn to see the quack I think ‘I used to be able to play that (Moonlight Sonata not the cigar tune) and better than this version’. Hilarious or what. With any luck I’ll at least be able to play Silent Night by Christmas!
by John Hamlin
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