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It's Never Too Late To Play Piano is perfect for those who wished they'd learnt to play the piano when they were younger or those who wish they hadn t given up! At last a truly grown-up approach to learning the piano. Pam Wedgwood, author of many popular piano series, takes you through the rudiments of piano technique and music theory in her own friendly style that s guaranteed to get results. The book is organized into clearly structured progressive units with a fabulous array of music to get you playing straight away, including Pam s own jazzy pieces, plenty of well-known classics and a smattering of pop and show tunes. Help and information is included at every step with top playing tips, technical boxes, fact files, general advice noticeboards, crosswords, recommended listening and boxes of fascinating musical history. The accompanying CD is packed with over 90 backing tracks as well as interactive activities to help you practice and a unique Pam Wedgwood website includes optional extras such as an opportunity to ask Pam your questions, optional teacher s accompaniment parts and more! This is an extensively revised and updated new edition for a new generation of beginners - proving it really is never too late.
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72 of 73 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have purchased this book last month and at first like some customers was confused with the CD. CD won't show you how the exercises should be played it serves a purpose of accompaniment, so that easy exercises in the beggining are not boring to play! It is actually fun playing together with the CD! Even my housemates are having fun(although they are not the ones playing!) However, I do believe for the first 4 lessons you can download examples of the exercises from author's webpage(sorry if I'm wrong about this I haven't actually used this option) but you will be fine with the exercises if you have a metronome(many keyboards have one build in) if you don't I would suggest to buy one! It would be a great help with your practice and getting your whole, minim and crotchet notes right, as well as helping to improve your speed.
The book itself is also very good. It progresses logicly in my opinion from the very begining. At first author explains about notes and their lengths, time signatures and the notes themselves. This book doesn't rush and explains one thing at a time, in small chunks so that theory is taken in almost on "as you go" basis. At the same time theory doesn't take much space and you have lots of practice exercises!So you do actually play unlike some books.
First lesson focuses on your right hand, second lesson on your left and lesson three on both hands together. Further lesson bring in new notes and techniques. (By the end of lesson 1 and 2 you will be using five notes on treble clef and 5 on the bass clef, adding new notes in further lessons)
I would greatly recommend this book to any begginer keyboard player! You'll enjoy it!
The book itself is also very good. It progresses logicly in my opinion from the very begining. At first author explains about notes and their lengths, time signatures and the notes themselves. This book doesn't rush and explains one thing at a time, in small chunks so that theory is taken in almost on "as you go" basis. At the same time theory doesn't take much space and you have lots of practice exercises!So you do actually play unlike some books.
First lesson focuses on your right hand, second lesson on your left and lesson three on both hands together. Further lesson bring in new notes and techniques. (By the end of lesson 1 and 2 you will be using five notes on treble clef and 5 on the bass clef, adding new notes in further lessons)
I would greatly recommend this book to any begginer keyboard player! You'll enjoy it!
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I Like this book, it is what I was looking for. I started to learn the piano when I was 16, but gave up for "better" things in my life. I have always regretted it and now having helped my 7 year old daughter with her starting the piano and bought a keyboard for us to use I thought I would have a go again. I found I could learn some moderate pieces of music with a lot of practice and then play them from memory, but wanted to be able to develop my music reading better.
This book has helped me achieve this, by working through much simpler pieces I am learning to translate the music I see to keyboard better and actually read as I play rather than just playing from memory and looking at the keyboard all the time which is what I was doing before. I have worked through the first 5 units and made a lot of progress. It will be a long road to the end of the book, but I think I will get there in the end.
Don't expect easy results - I know it has been said before, but I'll say it again, the way to get better is practice, practice and more practice. I try to spend 15 minutes every day working my way through the book, by chipping away like this I am gradually getting better.
There is a CD with the book but I share the sentiments of one other reviewer on this which is "Eh ?" . I don't get the CD at all. It provides accompaniments which bear little resemblance to the tunes on the page (I may not be a master player, but I'm not tHat bad). It would be far more useful if the CD simply played the tunes in question straight as they appear on the page - just to give the player an idea what they are aiming for. But they don't do this, they are just to accompany it. They are played at full speed - frankly by the time I have mastered a piece well enough to play it at full speed I want to move on to the next one and so have no use for such accompaniment.
This book has helped me achieve this, by working through much simpler pieces I am learning to translate the music I see to keyboard better and actually read as I play rather than just playing from memory and looking at the keyboard all the time which is what I was doing before. I have worked through the first 5 units and made a lot of progress. It will be a long road to the end of the book, but I think I will get there in the end.
Don't expect easy results - I know it has been said before, but I'll say it again, the way to get better is practice, practice and more practice. I try to spend 15 minutes every day working my way through the book, by chipping away like this I am gradually getting better.
There is a CD with the book but I share the sentiments of one other reviewer on this which is "Eh ?" . I don't get the CD at all. It provides accompaniments which bear little resemblance to the tunes on the page (I may not be a master player, but I'm not tHat bad). It would be far more useful if the CD simply played the tunes in question straight as they appear on the page - just to give the player an idea what they are aiming for. But they don't do this, they are just to accompany it. They are played at full speed - frankly by the time I have mastered a piece well enough to play it at full speed I want to move on to the next one and so have no use for such accompaniment.
77 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great book - as long as you go through every section and don't be tempted to jump ahead to the more exciting stuff, you will be reading music and knocking out simple tunes in no time. I learned to play basic piano when I was about 11 and 30 years later, having forgotten absolutely everything, found this book ideal. It tells you everything you need to know and tests you from time to time to check you're paying attention.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Okay, but be warned!
This book is quite good, but my 10 year old daughter is having piano lesson and her teacher says that the book is too hard for her, and suggests that she buys another book! Read more
Published 2 months ago by mr mole
Fifty years on....
I was told when I refused to have any more piano lessons 50 years ago that I'd regret it later. Well, eventually I did! Read more
Published 3 months ago by HevB
Good
Awesome book to have learn from the basic of piano and gradually picks up the pace through various stages increase in skill.
Great book to have and good value for money.
Great book to have and good value for money.
Published 3 months ago by C7plus9
Far too simple
I returned it and bought "Learn To Play Keyboards" (Steve Ashworth) instead.
"It's Never Too Late to Play Piano" is just too simple and does not cover areas like... Read more
"It's Never Too Late to Play Piano" is just too simple and does not cover areas like... Read more
Published 5 months ago by shadowfax777
The book is satisfactory.
All in all this is a good book and has helped me a great deal with reading sheet music and music concepts, But not so much with the actual playing of the piano/ piano techniques. Read more
Published 6 months ago by David.P
60+ and never to late
This is an great book very well laid out from start to finish, you need to start at the beginning and work through all the exercises to get the best out of the book. Read more
Published 7 months ago by C. Merrick
It's never to late to play
Well so i thought, but it is harder. Still i will carry on trying. Book good really. Not very musical.
Published 9 months ago by Nel
Best Adult Piano Tutor
I heartily recommend this book which has been written specifically for adults. You can't go wrong with this one. Buy it! Worth every penny. Read more
Published 11 months ago by G. Anderson
It's Never Too Late to Play Piano (Tutor book with CD)
The text is ok but the CD attached with the book is not what I expected. No images, no sound itjust empty .
Published 12 months ago by ooo
Go for the Alfreds Adult All in One Course Level 1
I ordered this book and Adult All In One Book Level 1 (Will Palmer) from Amazon at the same time. I started with Ms Wedgewoods book just got frustrated and then started with the... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mimi Lawal
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