Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Greatest Hits, Bk 1 (Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, Bk 1)

Alfred's aldult piano is a great course for learning piano. It takes you by the hand and teaches you simple lessons in a stepwise fashion.The greatest hits books are part of the alfred's adult course. On page 54 of volume 1...I saw a small not, "you are now ready for greatest hits vol1". I bought it. The lessons in greatest hits both follow and expand upon the lessons in the aldult piano course. Each lesson in greatest hits corresponds to what you've learned in the aldult course (each page of the greatest hits book tells you where the lessons corresponds to the adult course).It takes what you learned already and adds a bit to it it sees if you can add the next step yourself. For instance, when the adult course suggests that you can use the greatest hits book for practice, you haven't learned about accidentals yet. The greatest hits book take a song you've already learned (basically, it's "love me tender" you've already learned aura lee) and changes it to G major and adds the accidentals. Fsharp is pretty easy to figure out.It's a great supplement

Really great collection of basic piano hits for beginners (like me) who want to add something a little fun and familiar to their practice routine. Easy enough that I can use some of the music for sightreading practice and just to enjoy playing, and challenging enough (for a beginner) to keep me practicing.I'm excited to keep working my way through this one.

I played piano throughout grade school and have recently decided to take it up again after more than 15 years of not playing. I bought this along with the Basic Adult Piano Course books. These are nice because it gives you some more song options. It's easy to get kind of tired of the songs in the course books. This book coordinates with the course books, so you play through this book as you are working through the basic book. Some of the songs in the main books are a little too easy. These had a few challenging pieces that help you apply what you are learning in the course books.I would say these books are for beginners or those trying to pick it back up. If you are an experienced pianist, I probably would not recommend it, as you could probably find more challenging and better sounding arrangements for the pieces offered here. But again, if you are a beginner/intermediate player, these are great.

The finger numbering is very straightforward and made for beginner adults. For my background: I am a 22 year who used to play when I was very young, didn't touch a piano for about 12 years, and then started up again about 2 months ago. I found this book to be exceedingly helpful, it is a bit more explanatory than other sheet music books. It is made to slowly acclimate you to Reading sheet music, understanding what each symbol means, as it won't be explicitly stated in most composition pieces. All of the pieces also correspond to the AlFred handbook for beginner piano players, which I am using to help myself learn. I find it very helpful that selections are already set aside for reinforcing skills taught in the course textbook; that are already made for the skill level of the learner.I would recommend this book for ages 10+ who are beginning their piano journey and want to learn how to play a few fun pieces and boost their paino confidence. I would also like to note that I bought this used and it was in just fine condition, so especially if you plant to write in the notes in the sheets as practice (I like to do that) then consider buying a used book for a fraction of the cost and to reuse perfectly good materials.

This book includes a dozen or so popular songs which are appropriate for the skills taught in the Alfred Adult Piano Course, Level 1. I find it much more interesting and satisfying to play some "real" songs in addition to the made-up ditties they use in the course material itself. The songs in this book are, of course, edited and arranged for where you are as a Level 1 beginner, but they sound like the original songs and are good enough to show off to your friends. Not overly challenging but these will help stretch the skills you've learned up to this point in the course. Each song tells you what material you need to master in the lesson books before playing the song. Very handy. I am using this as a self-taught adult beginner, but I think a teacher would also find this book useful especially as a source for student recital material.

This book was very hard to find. I am very happy that I now own it.

Book is in good condition. Just what I wanted

As a complete newbie in learning to play the piano, I found the pieces challenging, but doable once you practice, practice and practice! It is also very satisfying to play the score, shorter and modified as the scores are, but as a beginner, it showed me how much I have progressed and also where my weak points were to. Sometimes, the choices are never what we would like, but as a beginner, to read the music, to practice and then finally get to that place where you are playing: I can't complain. Also, playing these pieces in addition to learning, I have gained confidence to look at pieces from Van Morrison, for example and have been able to tinker with pieces of a song! Small steps, and then you eventually find yourself playing the songs you really want to play. Highly recommended for level 1 beginners.

The book arrived at least 5 days earlier than estimated at purchase. It arrived in perfect condition.

I love the choice of songs and the chosen key makes the songs easy to play for a beginner.

The arrengements are not for beginners, some are very difficult, didnt like it sorryI prefer the Faber books a lot more

Great companion to the Alfred's Basic Piano course, allowing you to practise those skills on different songs.

These work very well to supplement the Alfred Adult Basic Piano course. Like the tutor books, the print is bold and clear - particularly helpful to the older beginner! There is a reasonable selection of popular film music (mostly older classics) and the arrangements are carefully worked out to sit comfortably with the tutor book, which is often cross-referenced. Very useful.