Teach Yourself to Play Piano: A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners Paperback – July 1, 2004

Very pleased

Ease to follow instructions

Very easy to follow step by step instructions. highly recommend for beginners to get and practice.this product is recommended by the professionals

The book carefully guides you through using first your right hand, then your left, then step-by-step putting both together. I could read music already, but mostly bass clef as I am a beginning cellist. But when I look at the notes, I can think of what they are and where on the cello fingerboard they are located, but for some reason (58 year old brain?) not where they are on the keyboard despite again knowing what notes the keys are. Well, I could do it, but not quickly enough....I had to think each time. This is all to say, I was not the most basic level beginner, but pretty darn close.This book teaches you to start reading music, to start learning the keyboard, start learning rhythms, start playing simple melodies/exercises, and to start putting the two hands together. Thats a lot! I had fun going through the first half of the book in my first sitting because they walk you through step-by-step. It did not feel like torture or even work. I only wish the book were longer, and contained some "real" music, but those things are readily available and I am being greedy. If you think you can't put two hands together, just go slow and work on the exercises one hand at a time, a bit each day. It works!

Not easy to learn as a beginner.

Although I read all I can (including other reviews) before deciding to purchase, there's always the chance the product isn't quite right for me. Not the case with this method book - looking to teach myself to play a keyboard, this book is exactly as described. Looking forward to ordering the next volume in the series. Thank you, Hal Leonard for another in a long line of winning method books!

This book is cool. I am an adult beginner who is trying out a Yamaha Keyboard. I just finished the third chapter and now I can figure out the music notes :D I liked the book. Apart from the quality of the content, the Print quality too is good. As of now, I don't know whether this is the best book out there for beginners or not (I think only an experienced piano teacher can comment on that aspect) and that is the only reason I am cutting one star.Content:IntroCh.1 Familiarize yourself with the keyboardCh.2 Playing your first notesCh.3 Getting started with the right handCh.4 Get rhythmCh.5 Introducing the Bass ClefCh.6 Getting started with the left handCh.7 Introducing the eighth noteCh.8 Hands togetherCh.9 Hands work together moreCh.10 Introducing chordsCh.11 More chords powerCh.12 Changing positionCh.13 More new notesCh.14 Let's play

I'm an adult who had never played a single piece of music in my life, but decided that I wanted to learn piano. This book worked out perfectly for me. The exercised were well thought out to keep challenging me for weeks, but without ever getting overly repetitive or boring. Rather than working on technicals that never sound like music, I was able to mostly produce melodies that made me happy to hear. It took me a couple of months to get through the final piece, but once I did, I had completely surprised and impressed myself. I was playing a complex piece with both hands complimenting each other simultaneously (there's probably a real term for that) and it go to be almost effortless. I can now print out any familiar beginner-level piece that I find online and figure it out within a few hours. At some point I should hire a teacher to make sure I am doing things the right way, but this book was a perfect way for me to get to enjoyable playing without that.