Piano Pieces for the Adult Beginner

I am a more advanced piano player, but I use this book for easy and fun pieces that don’t require a ton of practice. It has a lot of old fashioned and fun music and I would consider it perfect for any adult beginner. Nice range of easy to slightly more challenging selections.

I played music out of this and the Children's version when I was learning piano back in the 1960's! Most are fairly well know pieces and arranged so they don't frustrate newer players, each is marked with the estimated "grade" (1,2,3) so you know if you are in way over your head. My original copies were falling apart and so very tattered they were practically unusableSo, I was elated to find them in print again on nice white pages and with no real changes from the original copies.

The content of the book is fine, but the binding is bad. It's one of those cheaply printed volumes that will not lay flat. I'll be taking it to Kinkos to get the binding replaced with a comb binding. This same thing goes for all of the books in this series.

The word beginner is not true. Students need to have 3-4 years of lessons before they can tackle these. The pieces are well arranged and recognized melodies but don’t put this in front of a students with a year or two of lessons!

I gave this book to my 12-year-old granddaughter since it was too easy for me. She took it with her to her piano lesson and her teacher was impressed with the songs and the variety of music.

This is a very good book for I think intermediate players. It might be a little advanced for beginner players.The order of the songs is a little bit strange, but it works for me. It has a white variety of classical, baroque, romantic, folk, and old pop songs.Some complaints about the book are that many of the classical pieces don't have the full names listed. They will only have a generic name like minuet, or piano sonata, instead of giving a full name. this makes it annoying for when you want to hear a performance of it, but you don't know the full name, especially since the pieces are often transposed to an easier key to play in, so you don't even know it's the sonata in __ what specific key.I've worked around this by joining a Facebook group and asking people what the name of a piece is by playing the melody.Also, the lyrics are sometimes not perfect, they'll be missing a word, or have the wrong word at some points.Silverado, I'm happy with this purchase, but I wish that the book didn't have these couple problems.Andrew

this selection of pieces is wonderful. I haven't played on a regular basis for many years, but can pretty much sight-read all the pieces in this collection. LOVE IT

First 3 pieces are okay, a beginner can play them. But after that, everything is too difficult.Instead of all those master pieces that are un-playable why not more easy ones for the beginner?Plus there are no instruction and not much finger number, I don't know why they even publish this book...I would say just get the Piano Pieces for Children instead.

Un manual de piano muy útil. Tiene obras de muchísimos autores. Me ha gustado mucho para retomar mis lecciones de piano.

Das Buch kam gut erhalten an und ich habe mich fleißig rangehalten zu üben. Für komplette Piano Neulinge ist es zu empfehlen sich die Notenlehre und einige Übungen zum herantasten zu suchen und danach erst an das Buch setzen. Wer sich ohne jegliche Kenntnisse an das Buch setzt und sich denkt „warum klappt’s denn nicht sofort“ „das ist ja viel zu schwer“ ist einfach ein Opfer.All in all very good als Anfänger zum Stücke lernen und gleichzeitig die Piano Fähigkeiten zu erweitern

Love this book! Great selection of music, and even though it says beginner, the music pieces are easy to play, but sound more advanced, arranged with adults in mind. Again I love it!

My own practice

Partituras fáciles de leer, claras y precisas. Una selección variada y muy simple de éxitos clásicos y no tan clásicos. la calidad del libro es bastante buena y su tamaño permite colocarlo en el atril sin que tienda a cerrarse. Me gusta. Ahora sólo falta uno del mismo tipo con música Española.