Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A Book for the Earliest Beginner (John Thompsons Modern Course for The Piano)

This book is very thorough in teaching the basics of piano for a beginner who has never touched a piano key. I’d recommend it to anyone!

This beginners book is very much the same as when I used it 60+ years ago. Very easy to a beginner to learn their notes, how to read the music & develop good habits.

I absolutely love how this teaches note reading from the start and avoids having students get stuck with those blasted finger numbers! How many of us as teachers have asked a student what note a piece begins with, only to hear them plaintively ask... "What's the finger position?". As if the lines and spaces mean nothing. No matter how hard I tried to teach notes with the "finger position" methods i always got that question.Thompson avoids that nonsense all together with a firm knowledge of notes.I use the Schaum Pre A "Green Book" for supplementary music. It also uses the note system from the beginning so it doesn't confuse the student.I also like the audio included with each piece in 2 different tempos. It helps the student learn to play along with the background music and stay in rhythm when they practice without you at home and also work towards a goal of playing the upper tempo.I usually move the student to the next lesson when they can confidently play the current one at the slower tempo. As the begin the new lesson, they continue to play the previous one until they can confidently play it at the upper tempo.Remember to have them play all the earlier lessons! They love playing music they know and it helps them gain fluidity in playing as well as teaching them to transpose by having them change hand position to play an old song in a new key.Hand position is not a bad thing when teaching transposition especially if you have them play the 5-finger scale of each new piece.The songs in the book rarely go out of a 5-finger hand position so starting transposition is easy and makes it so simple when the move into the First Grade Book.And for Heaven's Sake! Avoid that "Teaching Little Fingers To Play More" book like the plague that it is! It is NOT written by Thompson.There is a Schaum book that is great if your student needs a little more confidence before moving into the First Grade Thompson.If the teacher moves carefully and spends enough time working hands separately at first, the First Grade Book holds no terrors.

Mi hijo ha aprendido mucho

My daughters teacher recommended it

I had this same book back in the 60's. Bought for my granddaughters to begin piano lessons.

Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A book for the Earliest Beginner by John Thompsons is a wonderful addition to any piano teacher's collection. The book is laid out in an easy-to-follow design. A step-by-step process helps engage beginning students in a fun fashion to be able to read and play the songs from the book.I highly recommend this "Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A book for the Earliest Beginner" by John Thompsons to everyone.I will be purchasing this book again for other students also.Thank you for reading this review.Sincerely,Jeanette L Lane

The media could not be loaded. El mejor método para aprender piano desde los inicios y de muy temprana edad. Muy fácil de entender y muy didáctico.

Lovely pictures and illustrations for children learning to play the piano.

The same book I used when I first started taking lessons - 20 years ago. Very simple, helpful tips and easy to read/understand. The perfect book for beginners! I bought it to teach my 5-year-old and 7-year-old how to play, they love it and picked up cues and tips fairly quickly.

The perfect beginner’s book

Good packaging. New book. My 6 yr old daughter's piano teacher suggested this book. Overall satified with purchase and delivery.

Mia figlia ha iniziato a suonare da pochissimi mesi e ha 7 anni. Con questo libro riesce ad andare avanti nello studio delle pagine anche da sola. E ogni volta giorno migliora.