Me and My Piano Part 1

Brilliant book for young students beginning the piano. I teach primary school piano and used to use John Thomson's Easiest Piano book. I have now switched to Me and My Piano and found that students enjoy it much more and learn more from it. Rather than having to explain time signatures, note values, fingering, AND two clefs on the first page, Me and My Piano starts off with playing just the right hand to make sure that the student understand how to read rhythms before confusing them with the bass clef. Then the left hand is introduced separately, which proceeds to playing hands together.I feel that this is a much better way of teacher the younger student and the kids love the songs with the lyrics underneath that they can sing along to. The teacher accompaniment is also very simple which allows you to concentrate on the student's playing rather than your own.

I've been keen for my children to learn musical instruments and to learn to read music. It's a great skill that you can use all through your life.It's been quite difficult to get my eldest away from technology but these learn piano books have been successful once I have removed her fireHd pad.I listen to her working through the lessons and clearly it's helping.These books are a great way to work out if your child has any talent or inclination to persue music before paying an expensive music teacher.

I love this book! My piano teacher uses it for all ages so I bought it immediately and use it every day. For years, decades actually, I've been flirting with playing the piano and now, thanks to this cute book and my great teacher, it's happening!

a very popular beginners book, nice and colorful and by the most famous fanny waterman. I do tend to use Young beginners books more with the CD as they progress slower, so for a 5 yr to 7yr, unless they practise at least 1hr and 30min a week or more, I would go for the other book 1 and then you can switch to book 2 of this series. I find most of my students these days don';t get enough practise in due to ALL the activities they are doing!

I bought this for my 5 year old son and he has heard pretty much all the rhymes there are. But even he didn't know some of the tunes and we had to google them.Perhaps a revised version with popular tunes would be welcome.