Step by Step Piano Course - Book 1 by Edna Mae Burnam | Beginner Piano Method for Early Elementary Students | Willis Music | Learn Piano Fundamentals ... Piano Teachers (Step by Step (Hal Leonard))

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There is a reason for all the 5 star reviews!!! I can't say enough good things about the Edna Mae books!!! Sorry about the lengthy review but I want readers to understand why I love this product so much. My very bright daughter (6 when she started and now 7) and I are both learning piano. I am learning with the Adult Alfred's books and she was learning with the Alfred's Premier Course. At first she was so excited to go to her lessons (which she begged for) but soon got bored. I figured it was just her age and everyone who plays told me they also hated practicing so I assumed it was that. Now I know the pace of the Alfred's course was too slow for her. We ended up moving after 3 months of lessons and while I picked a new teacher, I downloaded some piano lessons from eartrainingandimprov.com and also from makingmusicfun.net. I did these with her at home and she enjoyed them and soared through the first making music fun course and learned all her pentascales and little arpeggios from eartrainingandimprov. However, I felt there were some gaps and that she was not learning how to read the music for the now harder pieces she could play. She has a great ear and was memorizing the songs instead of reading them. I pulled out the Alfred's again to fill the gaps. She was not enthusiastic about starting again with the Alfred's series. As a matter of fact, she pouted, she moaned and groaned and pretty much drove me crazy. I wanted this to be something special we would learn together, not happening. She did not want to start lessons again with a teacher either (maybe because of the Alfreds?). Frustrated, I gave up and decided to give her a break. In the meantime, I read reviews and thumbed through different piano programs.I ordered Edna Mae's preparatory A Dozen A Day book based on a recommendation for hand exercises for myself. The fun songs and titles peaked her interest again. She wanted to just do these all the time. On a whim I ordered this product, Step by Step Piano Course Book One. I decided to start with book one to reboost her confidence since it had been months since she played. When I received it, I thought I would send it back because at first glance, it looked too simple for her. I sat with it at the piano and fell in love. I did the whole book myself in one night! The book starts very basic but is designed to help the student learn to read each note in a thorough way without putting too much focus on finger numbers. The songs are short, cute and fun to play. They look super simple but actually give the student opportunity to play each note just right. They allow them to focus on holding for the proper count while introducing playing with two hands and playing notes together right away. Genius! The songs are not boring because although short, they are somewhat challenging. Because they are so short, you don't get frustrated with the songs. They allow them to feel successful right away. As an art teacher, I know how important that is. My daughter instead of pouting by the end of practice, asks if we can do "just one more page?" THAT is music to my ears! She asked me if we could order all of the Step by Step books because we are already more than halfway through. I went ahead and put the Alfred's books away for good. :)I also started doing the My First Piano Adventures with my 5 year old who wants to learn piano so much like her big sister. We love how fun that series is for her age and appropriate for her little hands. All of my kids, and friends kids love doing the fun songs on the CD and listen to it all the time. However, when the time comes to really do more than introduce her to the piano I will definitely start her on this Step by Step Piano Course. It is the best!

I have been teaching piano for over ten years now. In the beginning, I used lesson books that I grew up on myself, like the John Thompson's series. I continued to try out various lesson books, but I always felt like the lessons were cluttered and not logically ordered for beginning children. I would end up only taking bits and pieces from each lesson book that I felt were actually worthwhile in the piano studio.On the contrary, I use the Step by Step books from start to finish, Books 1-6 with nearly every student. I supplement these with other materials to mix things up from time to time, but even without that, these books can easily stand on their own as a complete manual on how to get started reading and playing piano music. Edna seems to really understand a child's mentality. The book is aptly named as the pieces slowly introduce one fundament at a time in an easily digestible natural order that doesn't overwhelm. It stays on one skill for just the right amount of emphasis before moving on, which is only one of the many ways in which the design is truly sensible. Another intelligent approach is that the pieces are short and to the point. I noticed that a key flaw in many other lesson books is the sudden introduction of a long piece or a complex concept at an inappropriate moment, which only serves to undermine children's notorious short attention spans.This book starts with pieces that only have Middle C and then slowly adds one note/finger at a time to the child's repertoire. The fingers remain in Middle C position for the book's entirety and by the end of the book, they are using all ten fingers. As another reviewer mentioned, this book doesn't waste time having students play pieces that only use numbers, but utilizes actual notes immediately. And when they're through with it, the children especially love being able to fill out the certificate at the back of the book.The only possible drawback to this series is that it's a bit old-timey and seems to represent some kind of 1950s, nuclear family, idealized aesthetic. The children generally like the illustrations, but the scenes can at times seem irrelevant to their modern lives. The drawings lack diversity, only ever showing white children, and there is definitely at least one song in the series that was inspired by Christianity and has to do with going to church. Thankfully however, this kind of morally didactic approach isn't the emphasis here, and on the whole, my students enjoy the songs about animals and benign objects like rocking chairs. Yes, the themes of songs (relayed through title, pictures, and lyrics) can be a little boring sometimes, but my students and I have really only ever hated one song, which doesn't occur until Book 3 ("Sing a Song by the Campfire"). If there is the occasional boring song, it is usually short, and thereby tolerable.So yes, this series could use some minor updating, but RIP Ms. Burnam. Instead, these books will forever be a testament to her own experience as a child learning to play the piano however disparate from our own culture they may become. I find it remarkable that they continue to be fully functional for any child decade after decade.Highly recommended!

Wife bought this for an elderly friend who wanted to start to learn to play the piano. She loved it!

It is some what boring but I am learning. I plan on ordering the next one soon. You can tell that it was written years ago but it works. It is designed for children but should work well for anyone.

Most of this book is about how to read music. If you know how to find the notes on a keyboard AND you've taken a chorus class/played another instrument, you've probably mastered the material of this book. But if you need to know the absolute basics of reading music or finding notes on a keyboard, this book is truly excellent.

This is the best piano teaching series. I learned to play using it over 50 years ago. And it still produces great results. My students are excellent sight readers.

Excellent for learn piano

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This book was recommended for my 7 year old granddaughter who has just started learning the piano. It is perfect for her

This was the same program that I used to learn to play piano, and I have bought it for my daughter. Basic and easy to understand.

Excellent for introduction to playing with both hands.