Good start for potential piano players
925184
I bought this book for my 4 and 6 years old grandchildren.  Their mother is very impressed with its appropriate content.  Now if she can just get them to sit down at the piano long enough to get started learning.
4868112
This is a great book for beginners, it helped me to learn all the basics and get started learning how to play the piano.
1409037
This is a great item for the beginning piano player.  I purchased this for myself, 64 years young, as I started learning piano in January 2013.  I was trying to teach myself, not working too well, but this is helping a great deal.  I would suggest this for any youngster beginning piano lessons.  Colorful, engaging and a great learning too to go along with lessons.
3042590
Very good overall.  The pieces are easy to play for someone with limited piano training (three years as a child), but not so simple as to be entirely boring.  The collection is mostly very classic hymns, and a nice selection.
Some of the arrangements are a little dissonant, however, which spoils the hymn-like quality.
Also, the book would be easier to use if it had a spiral spine so that the pages would stay open on the piano.
1701185
Helpful for students. Nice supplement material for my piano students.
1896437
I have gone through the first five books of The Complete Piano Player, with the guidance of a teacher. This organ course is similar - everything appears to be there and it is not hard to understand. I think you still would need the help of someone who has learned a piano or organ from time to time though. I like all the songs in it too. I have done the first book of the Organ player and found it very pleasant to do.
1440627
I bought this book for my daughter who had only been playing the piano for about four months.  The pieces are a little too hard for her, but by next year she will be able to play at least a couple of songs.  Most songs have one flat or sharp, although there are at least two songs with no flats or sharps.  About half of the songs (5) are written so only one had is playing at a time.  The last four songs are a little harder.  Most songs are played with both hands on middle C.  The last four songs are played with the right hand, first finger on D so that A can be played by the fifth finger.  If you are looking for a book for a very beginner piano player, this is not the book for you.  However, if your child has been playing for a year or two this book would be perfect.
3282042
As a piano teacher being asked to teach an adult who tried lessons as a teen,  I looked at the reviews on this book and felt it would work for a 60-plus student who was anxious about lessons but eager to learn.  It moves slowly to give time for the student to absorb and reinforce points.  I also picked it because it has songs that he would recognize and enjoy playing.  We can move through it as fast as he has time/ability to do so,  It is also good in that it has theory and technic pages included with lesson material.  Only one book is needed, not three.
4048784
I'm not a music teacher, but I do teach for a living (flight instruction). I also play a few other instruments so I feel like I have experience learning. I bought these for my ex-girlfriend, and she moved out. I figured I'd keep the piano and learn. I'm very pleased with book 1. I like that for each song there is a slower practice track with demo (which I don't use, but it would be a great help to someone with zero musical experience) and a faster backing track.

I'd offer that the best part of this book is how gradually different aspects of playing and music reading are introduced. They have really done a great job at laying out the exercises so you can take on small parts of this big skill at a time. You could probably get through this book in about 1-2 months with an average of 20-30 min per day (so shorter practice sessions on days when you're tired from work, maybe longer on weekends or if you can't sleep and you need something do to, and even some days off). At the end of that time you'd be pretty happy with your progress. I am about to start book 2 and it's getting to the point where I'm excited about playing because I am just starting to notice that "effortlessness" that develops when you master something. I know it's just a matter of time before the skills "take off."
134855
My 8 year old and I wanted to learn how to read notes and play the Piano.  We didn't want to spend a lot of money on a more advanced model unless we actually learned and continued playing.

PROS:
1. Nice sounding Piano sound. Sounds realistic.
2. You will learn how to read notes. When you press on a key, there is an LCD display that shows the note on the scale so that you can see if you are hitting the same note as written on the music sheet.  I learned to read some notes when I see it now.
3. Battery or power adapter(not included).  So you can take it with you.
4. Intuitive. My eight year old understood how to do it really quickly.
5. There are pre programmed songs as well as other instruments.
6. Very loud.

CONS;
1. Keys are a little small so have to learn how not to accidentally hit other keys.

SUMMARY:
ThIs is a great keyboard to learn how to read notes and play the Piano.
3872477
Very satisfied with the piano especially with the price. It is built well and sounds good. Going to help me learn and pass my college course. Just what a new player needs. I can pack it up and put it away, take it with me, move it room to room, it's wonderful. I'll get a real piano when I know I am committed, then I can complain about how this one feels like others do. Until then....ignorance is bliss and I like the piano.
4652113
Don't confuse this book with the 'Guide To The Pianist's Repertoire' by Maurice Hinson.  It is not nearly as comprehensive.  But for the money, it is a good place to start and might be all that many pianists and teachers need.  The price is an added bonus.  Much information at a very modest cost.
Recommended
1784273
This is a wonderful piano book, with large print, and the music adapted correctly for the beginner:  not too hard and not too easy.  I also like the Baroque one.  I'd steer clear of the Chopin and Mozart books in the series, which are adapted by someone else and much too hard for a beginner.
4414131
Easy to understand and follow.  A great supplement to other basic piano training.  Diagrams are helpful.  Good practice suggestions for how to approach and space out learning.
2549081
My guitar teacher recommended this book so I got it because I want to play Gavotte I and II and this book has it. Most of the pieces are arranged with easier keys like C. This makes Sleepers Awake more playable than the usual key of D with D tuning (6th E tuned down to D). It is good as a start but for performance pieces I would pick Hal Leonard's publication of "Fingerpicking Bach" versions as they offer longer versions for a fuller performance and some closer to popular key the piece is usually played in (Sleepers Awake is in D in the Hal Leonard book). It is good to use the arrangements here to get familiar with these famous Bach pieces. Even in first position, they are not always easy to do e.g. a lot of hammer on/pull offs in the long stretches of eight notes and some left hand positions are awkward. My guitar helped with some modifications to make Gavotte I more playable. But do get this book if you want to play Bach.
4465242
Have had this for a few weeks now and so far so good. My daughter is loving it for her introduction to learning how to play the keyboard. A good investment for beginning piano lessons before investing in a traditional piano.
2221358
Great piano series that for my 6-8 year old beginning students, doesn't move so slow that they get bored, but also covers all the basics well enough  that they get it.