Piano Adventures® – Primer Level Performance Book

My daughter loves this piano book! The lessons are easy to follow, and the songs keep her excited to practice. It’s been amazing to see her confidence grow each week. A great choice for young beginners!

Fantastic for little pianists! My daughter’s piano instructor recommended this book, and it didn’t disappoint. It arrived quickly, which was a relief because I’m pretty sure my daughter thought piano lessons couldn’t begin without it. The book is perfect for beginners—simple, engaging, and even includes a few fun illustrations to keep kids entertained. Highly recommend, unless you were hoping for your kid to stay a beginner forever—this book will have them improving in no time!

As a piano teacher, Piano Adventures is the main course my students follow. Be advised the cover colors of the purple level are lighter than they used to be. I've figured out it's the 2nd version of the 2nd Edition, so don't feel sad when you get them like I did the first time!

This book was exactly what we were looking for! What we love about the book is that my 10 year old works in it with his piano teacher and then brings it home and I am able to work through it with him too and I am not a piano teacher nor have I ever had any experience. But I feel like I’m learning right along with him which makes it really fun for the both of us. We bought two of these books. Highly recommend for anyone wanting to learn!

Great series of books

Love their way of progression

I am using all three books: lesson. theory, and performance. I am not a professional piano teacher, but I do know enough to teach my 11 year old son. I was first using flash cards and performance songs that my youngest son used when he was learning piano. My grandson soon grew bored of these. Then one day, I showed my grandson the new books and he immediately liked them. He went through 20 pages the first sitting. Then we went to the theory book and next the performance book. We are not finished yet, but my grandson told me he likes to work in these books. I highly recommend these 3 books as teaching aids for teachers of younger students.

Book is quite thin, 32 pages. Has 11 pages of pre-staff reading, i.e. no staff, the note letter is written on large quarter notes/half notes for the child to play. 18 Primer pieces, and an additional 10 pre-staff pre-reading. It's definitely aimed at students who either need some more material at the Primer level, or need a selection for a recital at the average Primer level. It has teacher duets, so that's nice. I'd say it is exactly at the Primer level, not higher. Useful for its purpose, I would guess.Now, in contrast, the Primer Gold Star Performance book (which I also own) is, IMO, Level 1. I'd say that any student who can tackle the Primer Gold Star Performance book is pretty much by definition a Level 1 student. Ledger notes, harmonic intervals. My son is now going into Level 2A and there's no way he could sight read from the Primer Gold Star Performance book, he'd have to work on those pieces.