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Keyboard/piano books for improving beginner

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GravityFalls · 01/05/2020 20:22

I used to play the keyboard (self taught from books) as a child and could do melody and chords, but before lockdown someone gave me a full sized keyboard for the kids and I’ve taken this opportunity to work my way diligently through the Usborne Easy Piano Tunes. I’m enjoying playing ”properly” with both hands and I’d like some music books, but obviously now I can’t go into a shop to look, and I can’t really look inside most of them on Amazon, and the ones I have looked in are too easy - super-simple one note per bar with the left hand sort of thing, and I’m trying to work up a bit from there. I have some sheet music books from when I used to play guitar but the piano arrangements in those are far too hard so anything like that would put me off! Any tried-and-tested books or series of books for the next step up? Not particularly bothered about genre but I need to know the tune before I can play it at the moment!

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GravityFalls · 02/05/2020 11:35

Hopeful bump for the morning musicians!

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CoteDAzur · 15/05/2020 21:52

What kind of music do you like? I would recommend getting the sheet music for something you like and working on playing it.

dameofdilemma · 15/05/2020 22:17

I started learning 9 months ago and tried various books but whilst it helped with learning notes/theory, it didn’t really help me improve my timing.

I’d recommend the simply piano app, it’s not just music (inc sheet music) but actual lessons. My rhythm and timing was terrible and this really helped. Also helped dd a lot.

june2007 · 15/05/2020 23:13

Abracadabr piano have different levels and a good series to go with.

Tintini · 16/05/2020 21:44

I like Bill Hilton's YouTube piano tutorials.

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