It's Piano Lesson Time Book 1

I have been a piano teacher for 20+ years. I usually use the Faber series, but I now use this series if I have 2 students from the same family starting at the same time, so there is no sense of competition. This is a close second. The variety and choice of music is nice, and the arrangements very musical. I actually prefer starting with this book one over the Faber Primer (which I don't care for). There is a book you can use before this for a very young beginner with some pre-note reading skills, but this is sufficient for most students as their first book.

I'm very happy with this series. Faber's Piano Adventures and this are my favorite books to teach from, and I've been teaching for a quarter of a century. The songs are a nice variety of traditional, folk song, classical, and very musical originals by Monell. If I have siblings starting at the same time, I put one in the Faber books and the other in these.

Not sure why this seems to be the status quo for music books, but I ordered two and both were pretty well beat up upon delivery. Our local music stores are closing down one by one which limits access to hard copy music, but this kind of shipping quality is embarrassing to have to give to my students... Please come up with a better shipping system!

This book is a favorite of my grandson's teacher... It IS a fun book to learn piano techniques!

Fast shipping, and book arrived in good condition. Great book for basics. Captures kids’ interest well.

Piano student

thank you A+++

Easiest beginner book to follow in my opinion.