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Summary: you'll be playing tunes for the family pet before ya know it
Review: Okay, so the title and book cover design are extremely overused (whoever came up with the original title must be just rolling in dough from the licensing fees), but this is a really good book for those with absolutely no previous music experience. It gently walks you through the basics of learning piano, and you'll be playing tunes for the family pet before you know it. Highly recommended, CleverJoe gives it three big thumbs up.
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Summary: One heck of a helpful book!
Review: One of my biggest dreams is to be able to play the piano. About 80% of my family can already do so, but no one ever had the time or the patience to teach me. Now I'm well on my way to fulfilling my dream with a little help with this funny and easy to understand book. I love it. I also enjoy playing along with the CD it comes with.
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Summary: Lacking exercises.
Review: The two problems with the book are the lack of exercises and not setting a time frame for the available ones. It's divided into chapters and theories just follow eachother. The author doesn't stop and tell you to start practicing a certain piece, for how long and what else you can do.
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Summary: Condecending, patronising, badly edited, impossible to read.
Review: This book is aimed at the LOWEST possible common demoninator. I certainly won't be purchasing any more dummies books. Filled with pathetic one-liners and bad analogies, any useful content is obliterated by forced gags and the consistent ending of every paragraph with a bad pun. This is not only the worst edited book I've ever seen, but it also failed to introduce all musical notation before presenting it on a score, leaving me wondering what I'm supposed to do when I reached certain symbols (ie: the rest symbol). Not reccomended at all.
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Summary: This book ain't no dummy
Review: This book is GREAT! It is helpful to have some type of background before reading it but still a very helpful book. It comes with a CD so you can hear what they are talking about in the book -very helpful for those of us who prefer to play by ear rather then read music.The information is short and to the point - stuff, no fluff. The information made sense. I was playing so much better in just the first day of reading it. Stick with it and read it over and over. It sinks in and makes sense - stay with it.
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Summary: the dummy and idiot market is insatiable
Review: We've learned in the past few years that there are many more dummies in the world than we had reckoned on and that the dummies are much more ambitious than we had supposed. They want to be taught to do everything. In any case, this is a serviceable work for persons of average intelligence (or so), but of course there are many other general method books available, many of them much better (and there are piano teachers as well.) I particularly recommend PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
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