Easiest Piano Course Part One - Book Only

Part One

By John Thompson

This book is easy enough to use with a 5 yr. old beginner who has just started Kindergarten. Also works well with students who don't pick up the concepts as quickly. This is my new go-to primer.

I have used "Teaching Little Fingers to Play" for many years. I am seeing much better success, much quicker, with this series than the old one. Recommend you try it. I'm glad I did.

I love this book because it teaches the basics (lines, spaces, whole, half, quarter notes, along with name of note etc. I haven't given piano lessons for at least 10 years, but am starting my granddaughter, and this book was not available during the early years of teaching children...

. All that was offered for the bginner was Teaching Little Fingers to Play. I also like the cartoon characters. I think she will learn very easily everything she needs to know with this book. Ethel Kolbe

This book explains to children about music for the piano. It tells you about the staff, the treble clef, the bass clef, and the types of notes, starting with middle C. It also explains about the C major scale.

This book completely by-passes the usual "start on only the black keys with no lines or spaces" approach. I am using it with great success for a kindergarten beginner. It goes straight to reading notes on both clefs, and has seven different cute and brightly colored "creatures" associated with...

each note of the scale, so this helps the student read successfully so much faster than other methods. John Thompson has always been great, but decades-old illustrations just didn't cut it and now that's fixed!