Your Golden Ears vol. 1: Learn With 5 Minutes Daily Practice, Master Finger Dexterity & Technique Using Sheet Music, Songs, Music Notation and More!

I'm still working through it, but this is a fantastic resource so far. A lot of lessons for beginners are very simple and don't really get you much further past the starting point. This book really does start from the beginning (pros and cons of picking a keyboard versus a piano) and gets you playing multiple songs by the end, but it teaches you so much in between to set you up to better understand the instrument, reading and playing music, and music in general. The lessons are split up nicely and encourage healthy learning habits. Steps are laid out very clearly, and there's stories about composers to help break things up and give you more appreciation for the music that you're playing. One of the things that games does well is teaching you something simple, using repetition to solidify it, and then bringing that concept back as part of a larger concept to make something complicated easier to learn. With the author's background in music education and gaming, I think this book uses an ideal approach to help the reader learn. It's well made and the price is quite generous, it's an easy buy in my opinion.

Easy to ready. Miss 14 is loving it.

I have recently started to use this book to help me learn and I have to say I am super impressed. So much so I am about to order the next one. I am a complete beginner and this is so well written, explained and the short videos, making it visual too, to assist, means everything makes sense. The fact that you are learning the music theory along the way with it is just amazing. I feel I am not the most academic, I am definitely more of a creative and I thought I may struggle with a written book to learn, rather than hands on, but this is as I say, so well done and I am really enjoying it so far. I have learnt a lot already. Highly recommend.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who really wants to start out in music. The approach is so basic yet easy to understand and adequately technical.

I'd recommend this book for anyone wanting to try to learn piano as an adult. This book is very approachable and takes what might be a daunting task and makes it very easy to get started and has a good, graduated approach to building your knowledge over the course of the book. It is frames in tasks/exericizes that are in good, comsumable sizes so getting started and then progressing is easy, and it will keep you on a cadence if you follow it. The lessons stay fun and digestable, but the book does well to increase your learning within that. It also has great extras like instructional videos, facts/tidbits, and tons of positive encouragement. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to learn the piano but duanted or unsure how to start.