Alfred's Group Piano for Adults Student Book, Bk 2: An Innovative Method with Optional Compact Discs and General MIDI Disks for Enhanced Practice and ... (Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Bk 2)

By Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Company

Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 2 is designed for non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience. Upon completion of the course, students will have a strong grasp of functional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Plastic Comb
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882847007
• ISBN13: 9780882847009
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 1.3" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

excellent book for piano classes

This book is suited to piano classes and offers extensive materials for sight-reading, harmonization, ensemble playing, repertoire, and improvisation.

Works Wonderfully!

I received this book in no time at all. It's perfect for my piano class.

Excellent group teaching tool

This book is an excellent teaching tool for group piano. I found the exercises thorough, and the theory concepts complete. I would recommend it for anyone who wants a comprehensive overview of the piano.

The best class piano book I've seen

I have taught from this book this year and also used the first edition for several years. This is a good book with lots to recommend it to the teacher and student. The multiple-key approach dovetails very well with college theory courses. The instruction in lead sheet and figured bass harmonization is also excellent. Solo repertoire pieces have been thoughtfully integrated and offer the teacher and student plenty of choices. The only drawback I have found, from a teacher's perspective, is that the presentation of scales is, in my view, unsound. Stressing two octave scales and arpeggios at this level is much too advanced. It would be better to spread the presentation of scales out more (one per week after they are first introduced) and require only one octave. Of course, a good teacher can adapt the scale presentation, but with so many other excellent features, I think that the authors could easily address this (maybe in the next edition). Also, since this is used as a college text, it is preferable to teach natural and melodic minor scales and fingerings too. But other than this slight quibble, I highly recommend this great book, which is useful for the entire first year of piano study.

The Best Book for Novice Pianists

This is a very well arranged instructional book on piano. When I took my first year Classical Piano class with Maestro Ping-Cheng Wang: it was just our group, the pianos and this book. I learned so much and with a practacally dismal musical background. One of the authors of this book is a professor at the prestigious University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. I was able to do assemblies, preludes and boogies and play accelerando and staccato. This book helped me with my Music Theory classes, as well. The large sized book allows you to make notes and record assignments. My advice is to practice, practice, and practice. Especially, practice your scales.