Progressive Complete Learn to Play Keyboard Manual - Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners | Perfect for Home Practice, Music Lessons & Self-Study

To purchase any book that will take you months to work through, you have to be convinced that the material and approach is what will deliver for you. So I suggest that you look at the entire contents of the book prior to making the purchase. Otherwise you will lose interest as I did with another self teaching method I bought earlier. I am a guitarist first and want to learn to play keyboard so I have a musical foundation already. When I saw that the left hand chord accompaniment for the bass clef staff indicating the chord names above the top staff as music for guitar does, I felt like this was a good frame of reference for me and it has been. The 3 sections of the book take you from novice to semi-competent reader/player of piano music to a very informed and confident player. This is not a book for anyone who wants top play classical music like Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and the rest of them. This is a book for contemporary musicians. This book was published in 2007 as you can tell from the pictures of what were modern electronic keyboards in 2007. However, the skills needed to play keyboards haven't changed at all since then so the book is right on target to introduce you to music styles that you can understand. The beginning songs in Section 1 are not pop 100 but familiar tunes that anyone should identify. Later, they begin to get more interesting. The 2 CDs are very useful to demonstrate what the songs should sound like and I wouldn't purchase any instruction book without this type of aid, especially if you are intending to be self-taught. If you faithfully complete this entire book, you should be capable of playing any contemporary music written today.