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Piano for Dummies (For Dummies) | 
 enlarge | Author: Blake Neely
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £4.62
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2428
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Com
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764551051
Dewey Decimal Number: 786.2071
UPC: 785555551053
EAN: 9780764551055
ASIN: 0764551051
Publication Date: September 4, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
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| Customer Reviews:
 reall good January 13, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
one of the worst things when learning an instrument is frustration, something i have experienced whilst reading other books on the subject of piano/keyboards. this book tells you how to play in plain english and goes into good depth on the basics of playing. you never feel overwhelmed.
highly recommended
5 stars to what the book tries to achieve March 15, 2007
37 out of 39 found this review helpful
This book is very straight-forward and if you're really personally committed to learn the piano, not really caring for the deeply technical part of it, it is a must-have. It is not to be taken very seriously. The book aims to teach you the principles of playing the piano and that Mark Phillips indeed achieved. I bought it without knowing much about music or piano and after 4 months studying it, I already knew how to play 2 pieces like a true prodigy. However, music is a very intricate art and to be a real musician, Piano For Dummies may be your start point, but not your back bone to music.
There is really, indeed, much much more to music after "Piano for Dummies", and beginners must realise that. It is a great buy if you're wanting to play the piano just for the fun of it, but if you want real technical knowledge and to be a professional, you must go far beyond this book.
 Disappointing September 15, 2005
24 out of 47 found this review helpful
Too many irritating bad jokes and not enough substance.
 the dummy and idiot market is insatiable March 24, 1999
35 out of 160 found this review helpful
We've learned in the past few years that there are many more dummies in the world than we had reckoned on and that the dummies are much more ambitious than we had supposed. They want to be taught to do everything. In any case, this is a serviceable work for persons of average intelligence (or so), but of course there are many other general method books available, many of them much better (and there are piano teachers as well.) I particularly recommend PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
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