Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book Level 1: Lesson Book, Level One/2236

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This means that you’ll be completing 1-2 pieces per week if you’re planning on completing the first book in a year.

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I’ll give you a brief overview on how to go through Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course if you’re a complete beginner, and then we’ll get into some of the finer details.It’s not usually so difficult that students give up, but frustration can happen sometimes (especially when parts of the first book were so easy).

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With Beautiful Brown Eyes it’s a combination of learning a new chord AND the ¾ time signature AND the bottom-top left-hand pattern. If you’re only used to playing chords with your left hand, it’ll be a rude awakening when you attempt your first Baroque or Classical dance piece, where the left hand makes big leaps and follows its own path (instead of being led along by the right-hand melody). Overall, it’s a great course – solid, effective, affordable, and most teachers are familiar with it. One thing you’ll immediately notice when you crack the cover is a list of books that can be used alongside this one.

This gives the student perspective, and generally instills a newfound fondness for the easier material of the Adult book. The Alfred series has been around for a long time – I grew up using their regular lesson books for children, and I’ve taught with their books as an adult. Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is designed for the beginner looking for a truly complete piano course that includes lesson, theory, technic and popular repertoire in one convenient, all-in-one book. For example, by the time you reach page 45 of the Adult Lesson book, you’ll be ready to start the Alfred Pop Song Book 1. I want to briefly mention that there’s a third book in the Adult series, but I don’t have it so I can’t speak to its content.

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The first Adult book roughly corresponds with the RCM’s Preparatory A level, and the second Adult book roughly corresponds with the RCM’s Preparatory B level.

A quick correction: I mentioned that you could transition from the 2nd adult book to the 3rd regular book in the basic series, but having reviewed this I don’t recommend it. But like primary school, we need to lay the groundwork and learn the basics before we get to a grade 1 level. A beginner usually has a ton of fire and motivation when they first start learning the piano, and this overcomes some of the hokeyness of earlier pieces.