John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book

perfect

My grandkids loved it!

I have taught piano to children and adults for over 60 years. This is the only book I will use for starting beginners. Even when I taught adult classes for piano, this book brought about consistent success. Why?The notes are large. The pages are uncluttered with "talk." The exercises move from page to page in logical steps, not too big, not too fast. And most of all, the student can master the right hand alone and the left hand alone before the confusion of combining hands. This also means reading treble clef alone and bass clef alone before reading both clefs. Another solid feature of this book is that the answers are often at the top of the page where the student is shown what keys to use. Near the back of the book, exercises start to use two hands. Then there are six songs at the end for two hands that serve as recital type pieces. They are interesting, very melodic, and boost confidence. This book is so well constructed that a person can almost teach themselves. When my students go on vacation or miss lessons, I tell them to go back to the beginning and work their way up to the page they were playing on. This is a great review and works within minutes to put the student back on course. There are fancier beginner books and prettier piano books. But this book is an old reliable standard in which I have about 95 to 98% success with training young and old. From this they go into a book requiring two hands at once.

ok

I've used this book for many beginner piano students and it's easy to understand even for younger students! Highly recommend this book to teachers or parents looking for a simple to follow piano book.

Great

The book arrived right on time i was thrilled, its just like my first piano lesson book but they have added beautifully colored pictures the only problem was the scratch on the cover! It wasnt a shippingFault , it came from the printer that way. Im detracting a star for that, it wAs very disappointing, but sending it back is too much trouble, so i will grin and bare it!Its still a wonderful first lesson book anyway.

used these when I was a kid to learn the piano. now teaching my kids