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asterix77's review
5.0
This book was better then I anticipated. I have to say that I see myself as an intermediate piano player. Like a lot of people, I used to have keyboard/piano/organ lessons when I was a kid (for quite some years) and I picked it up a few years ago.
I expected this book to be very basic, at the brink of being useless for an intermediate player. And to be honest, it started off this way. I don't need tips not to connect too many electrical devices (instruments in this case) to the same socket....
But then it got into music theory, styles, technique. And although basic, it is very thorough. The part with the technique exercises is actually not that easy. All styles are being treated equal: pop, rock, jazz, blues, ragtime, classical...
To me it was a breeze of fresh air and I wished I was taught like this 35 years ago.
Can one play a piano or keyboard after reading this book? Of course not, but I dare to say, if you actually learn and practice what is being preached in this book, you will be a better player then many, many people who have had lessons in their childhood for over 5 to 10 years.
I can highly recommend this one.
I expected this book to be very basic, at the brink of being useless for an intermediate player. And to be honest, it started off this way. I don't need tips not to connect too many electrical devices (instruments in this case) to the same socket....
But then it got into music theory, styles, technique. And although basic, it is very thorough. The part with the technique exercises is actually not that easy. All styles are being treated equal: pop, rock, jazz, blues, ragtime, classical...
To me it was a breeze of fresh air and I wished I was taught like this 35 years ago.
Can one play a piano or keyboard after reading this book? Of course not, but I dare to say, if you actually learn and practice what is being preached in this book, you will be a better player then many, many people who have had lessons in their childhood for over 5 to 10 years.
I can highly recommend this one.
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