John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course - Part 1 - Book Only: Part 1 - Book only - Kindle edition by John Thompson. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device. John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course: Part 1 - Revised Edition. Get unrivalled Professional Advice & Free Delivery on orders over?20.

The John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course is designed to present the easiest possible approach to piano playing, complete with an amusing family of characters and illustrations to help emphasise the information being taught. Part one is devoted to developing fluency in reading by note, the biggest hurdle for most young children.

The range is purposely limited. Only five notes up and five notes down from middle C are presented and time values do not go beyond crotchets. Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises, sight-reading drills, review work and later, technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples. Having used this piano method for many years, I have found it to be a comprehensive and fun piano method for young children. This revised edition of the series brings lessons to life with the colour illustrations which highlight useful information. Part 1 guides the student through the demanding nature of reading music and understanding the keyboard.

It proceeds at a good pace which allows the student to assimilate the information presented at each stage, and put into practice what is being taught. Debbie - (Portsmouth). This book was really easy to read, clearly laid out and had a good balance of information per page. Truck Simulator Games Wii. A good mix of practical labelling exercises as well as simple tunes. I particularly liked that the left and right hands are introduced from the middle C making it much easier to learn the left hand notes (bass clef) and how they fit with the right (treble clef). My 10 year old step son had it as his first book and to start with I talked him through the pages as he went along.

Patch Multilanguage Pes 2011 on this page. Once he got going he only needed to ask for help avary now and then. He finished the book in a weekend and unprompted, proudly entered his name into the back page certificate and mine as his teacher. Anonymous - (Tonbridge, United Kingdom). Unfortunately I only gave this a 1 star rate due to the paper the tutor is printed on. It's shiny and is very difficult to erase pencil markings on the worksheets - makes for a very untidy page!! Also in Book 1 there is an error on page 19, fourth line down of the third worksheet, the bass clef line, the dashes do not correspond with the notes.

Other than this the Book 1 is an excellent introduction to playing the piano for a beginner of any age. I do wish though that when scales are introduced they are introduced in two octaves, a requirement for all examination boards in England. Why has nobody picked up on this? I like the layout of the page, and the useful information and reinforcement of recognizing the notes, but why is there no sign of the song Happy Birthday - this must be the most important song in the whole world, yet very few tutoring books introduce it at an early stage. What a joy for the parent when their offspring can, at the drop of a hat, play Happy Birthday to an Aunt, Grandma, Grandpa etc, get my drift? Angela Seager - (Manchester, England). I used this book when I first started teaching and find it very good at getting students to read music.

It has worksheets throughout revising note names and time values, which makes my job a lot easier and also eases them into some music theory. The tunes seem enjoyable to play and the teacher accompaniments make the very basic pieces sound more interesting. A lot of students also like the illustrations. The only problem with this book is that bright students will get through it in a few weeks but it provides a solid grounding in the basics of reading and playing music. Anonymous - ().