Your Golden Ears vol. 1: Learn With 5 Minutes Daily Practice, Master Finger Dexterity & Technique Using Sheet Music, Songs, Music Notation and More!

Easy to ready. Miss 14 is loving it.

I'm still working through it, but this is a fantastic resource so far. A lot of lessons for beginners are very simple and don't really get you much further past the starting point. This book really does start from the beginning (pros and cons of picking a keyboard versus a piano) and gets you playing multiple songs by the end, but it teaches you so much in between to set you up to better understand the instrument, reading and playing music, and music in general. The lessons are split up nicely and encourage healthy learning habits. Steps are laid out very clearly, and there's stories about composers to help break things up and give you more appreciation for the music that you're playing. One of the things that games does well is teaching you something simple, using repetition to solidify it, and then bringing that concept back as part of a larger concept to make something complicated easier to learn. With the author's background in music education and gaming, I think this book uses an ideal approach to help the reader learn. It's well made and the price is quite generous, it's an easy buy in my opinion.

Thanks Andrea! Your simple and excellent teaching techniques, especially the timing exercises in the videos really do help. Elly

My oh my! What a fantastic book this is! I’m60 years old, I’ve had it one week and I’ve almost finished it! I’m now at lesson 11 and can play a tune with two hands. I am amazed myself. The course is very well thought out and achievable. It’s also very well structured and very clear. Thank you so much for making it available.

I'd recommend this book for anyone wanting to try to learn piano as an adult. This book is very approachable and takes what might be a daunting task and makes it very easy to get started and has a good, graduated approach to building your knowledge over the course of the book. It is frames in tasks/exericizes that are in good, comsumable sizes so getting started and then progressing is easy, and it will keep you on a cadence if you follow it. The lessons stay fun and digestable, but the book does well to increase your learning within that. It also has great extras like instructional videos, facts/tidbits, and tons of positive encouragement. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to learn the piano but duanted or unsure how to start.