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Danster
01-06-2007, 05:51 PM
My son has been taking piano for about 1.5 years. I take him to his lessons. He has a superb teacher. I decided a few months ago I might as well take advantage of the fact that I go to the lessons also, and I started working my way through his books he uses for his lessons. Problem is, they are for kids, and I don't care too much for playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" and the like. What I'd like to get is a series of piano books that are made for adult beginners. Of course there are zillions of books for adult beginners, but I would like to get some that are for learning piano as a course of study, and are meant to be gone through in the order of the pages as presented, as opposed to just song books where one picks and chooses songs to play. Ideally these would be strongly geared toward classical music. Any suggestions? Thanks!

SostenutO
01-06-2007, 06:41 PM
I've bought a lot of music here. This is all of their adult method books

http://jwpepper.com/Piano_Catalog_Methods_Teens_Adults.list#

Since the books are "courses" you will go through them in order until you finish and are ready for the next book in the course (book 2, 3, etc). And I noticed some of the books include classics such as The Entertainer (though they are simplified for beginners).

(you have to purchase online, I hope thats not a problem)

The Doc
01-06-2007, 09:48 PM
http://www.amazon.com/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-Piano-Course/dp/0882846167/sr=8-1/qid=1168120018/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-7843633-2034012?ie=UTF8&s=books

Try that one. It's pretty good.