Learn to Play Piano: Step by step guide to playing the piano | Perfect for young people - early teens or older juniors

LEARN TO PLAY PIANO and how to read piano music fluently

This is a great starter book for aspiring pianists of all ages - all topics presented in fun and easy steps!There are many types of pianist, but all can be put into one of two main groups:

those who can read musicthose who cannot read music

If you want to learn how to play the piano and at the same time, learn how to read piano music then this book is for you. Reading piano music is difficult - don't believe anyone who claims that it isn't. It is an intellectual skill and even more than that it is a practical skill. Many people can look at a single note and find it on the piano keys, but the skill of co-ordinating your fingers and mind so that you can read a complex selection of notes on a page and produce music on the piano is another level entirely.

The aim of this book is to give you the skills you need to read music fluently so that you can move onto playing music you love

How does it work?

Easy to follow with new skills introduced one step at a time and lots of repetition.Simple arrangements of well know tunes, so you know what the tunes should sound like before you play them.Also includes new original tunes in a variety of styles.Written by a piano teacher with over 20 years experience of working with young students - all ideas have been thoroughly tested on real learners.Just the correct balance between new material and repetition so that students retain what they learn.

Tunes in the book include:

Lightly Row

When the Saints Go Marching In

Au Clair de la Lune

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

Scarborough Fair

We Three Kings of Orient Are

Away in a Manger

Happy Birthday to You

Sur le Pont d'Avignon

Beautiful Brown Eyes

Aura Lee

Jingle Bells

Heather Milnes has been teaching the piano for over 30 and in that time has tutored over 300 successful students. She performs and composes for the piano, flute and clarinet.