Best Book for Pianists -- EVER!! 

did you purchase it? can you give me some more information, please?

Thanks! You have to read the notes directly and not by intervals. Actually, you have to be able to do both equally well, but reading the notes is more important than reading intervals. You need to know musical notes as well as you know the 26 letters of the written and spoken alphabet. There are no shortcuts.

Thanks! But people need to realize it is not "my" book but "Bach's" book. I am simply publishing exactly what Bach wrote. If I were to publish a book of the Chopin Etudes exactly the way Chopin wrote his etudes, nobody would be calling it "my" book but "Chopin's" book. Why then is it all of a sudden "my" book with Bach chorales? When people get upset or offended with this video, they must realize they are up against not "me" but rather the greatest composer in the history of music, J.S. Bach. If there were a contest between Bach and Chopin I think most educated musicians would rank Bach superior to Chopin, which gives all the more reason to rank a book of Bach chorales as more beneficial and useful than a book of Chopin etudes.

Don't you understand this is all personal opinion? There is no way to "scientifically prove" a personal opinion such as the one I assert here. It's just my opinion, so there's no sense in getting all worked up over it. It's just that up until now, pianists have pretty much ignored Bach's chorales as practice and performance "etudes" and I am trying my best to get them known and out in the public eye. We all know Chopin's etudes, which are overplayed. I suggest everyone throw away their Chopin etudes and play Bach chorales instead. They are better music (in my opinion) and more gratifying to play (in my opinion) and require many more vital techniques for developing pianists than Chopin's etudes (in my opinion).

Well, I can't comprehend how most pianists play Chopin's etudes so diligently yet throw out Bach's chorales. You can look at it either way, and either way is founded on one's own beliefs. Look, just face it, the majority of piano students (and about 60% of mine) are adults both returning to piano from a long hiatus, or they are beginners. The over 40 and 50 demographic is now the largest demographic of piano learners in most of the western world. These adults will never be virtuosos and they will never play in Van Cliburn Competitions and become touring concert pianists. For them, Chopin etudes are not only impossible, but totally useless. Bach's chorales are much more useful and teach many more vital aspects of piano playing than Chopin's etudes, which are really only for talented young pianists who plan to attend conservatories and who strive to be virtuoso concert pianists. It is a different world now than in the 1850s, when usually the only reason for learning piano was to become a virtuoso, concert pianist. For this reason, today in 2018, Bach's chorales are MUCH more useful and practical for 95% of piano students, young and older, than Chopin's etudes.

I plan to upload performances on RU-vid as well as tutorials on The Well-Wounded Pianist. Thanks!

My website (BachScholar.com) sells only PDF downloads. If you want hardcopy prints of any of my books, go here: store.subitomusic.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1346_1322

Thank you Cory. I will go for the hard copy.

The point is to read the chords from the sheet music directly.

You should do both.

Thanks!! Can you give me an example of doing both of these things at the same time?

Yes, look at a Grades 1-2 or 3-4 line, play the first beat, and then name the intervals between the notes as well as name the notes themselves. It's that easy.

I meant look at the "Soprano & Bass" line, not Grades 1-2 and 3-4 which refers to the book "Sight-Reading & Harmony".

BachScholar Thank you!!

About Grade 6.

@@BachScholar Thanks, Ill get the book as soon as I feel im near that grade, currently im still in the preparatory level and I hope to stay consistent until I reach grade 5 or 6

It's on Amazon: amzn.to/3b3lzMn

As said in another comment, they are not "my" chorales, but "Bach's" chorales. It's really not about me at all, but all about Bach's music being, as I claim, more beneficial than Chopin's music for the average aspiring piano student. It is much more practical in piano playing to learn how to play and master chords, and especially four-part chords, than pages upon pages of highly virtuosic material that the majority of piano students will never even be able to play at half speed.

Scroll down this page and look for "24 Easy Four-Paert Chorales" www.bachscholar.com/hardcopy-piano-books/

No, the "Air" is not in it since it is not a chorale.

Gracias cory just got it at amazon, can't wait

"Sight-Reading & Harmony" is a very thorough and systematic approach to reading. You get many shorter examples with it. The "24 Easy Four-Part Chorales" is shorter but has more full chorales as well as full chorales equal to the Grades 3-4 shorter lines in SR&H. I think the best thing to do is get both.

What even is it