BEST/Favourite BEGINNER Piano Books | Grades 1-3 

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I was very interested to hear about the differences between American and British preferences. I would be very interested in what you think about the UK versions of Faber vs the American? They have fewer books, but I doubt they drop the pre-reading music at the beginning. Is there any difference between them aside from being more condensed? I have loved using Faber, but the 4 books are too much for some students. I don't want to leave anything out though... Thoughts?

How many pieces per grade on average would you suggest to learn in order to say that the student is that grade player?

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I wanted to check out your recommendations, some of your suggestions don't have samples of the music. It's difficult to buy music online if I don't have an idea of how easy/difficult the music is.

Please reply to my comment. Can you recommend any book for self taught pianist?

Just asking, since the books has different kind of publisher, will the contents be the same(composition of the pieces) or will it differ from publisher to publisher

Hi. I know that you do many book reviews for beginner books and I am looking for a beginner Theory book. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you.

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Why do they change the books every 2 years?? :o

Good books but no audio CD, so without a teacher it would be difficult to use. I use the Keith Snell books, they are simple from prep to level 8. Also i use the alfred books for adults. I have both versions of the two books, which give different pieces of music. The alfreds are good for chords and the Snells for the fingering. What i like about them is they have audio cds on them, the problem with the alfreds though is they just play the back ground music and not the piano line, that can be confusing. Still it gives timing, speed and how the tune is supposed to be played. For example in book one, i was playing "when the saints going marching in" and i thought i was way off, then i put the audio on and found it okish. What i did was find somone online who played it and it was spot on. It gave me encouragement. The problem with the Snell books, even though they are in many styles, the further up go up the levels it is harder to find the audio for the books. The books without the cd are easy to find though. I just found the audio their website. The are free as well. kjos.com/essential-piano-repertoire.html