Practical Method for Beginners, Op. 599: Piano Technique

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the usual fare.......2007-08-22

I don't know why I keep reviewing Czerny books. If you've seen one (op. 139, 599, 823), you've seen them all. They all start with a marathon of melodies in the key of C, repeating the tonic and dominant chords until you can scream.

They all consist of square melodies in the binary form, with the same chords in the same places, and with the same rink-chink harmonic treatment. Counterpoint, what's that?

A nice reading book.......2007-05-13

My son has been playing piano for 5 years. He uses this book for his reading exercises. It works out pretty well, except he had to skip the first few pages which were way too easy.

Progressive Classical Guitar Method: For Beginner to Intermediate Students [Book 1]

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Perfect for learning from the ground up
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
GREAT TOOL
Excellent Classical Primer!
Jason Waldron- Progressive classical guitar

Progressive Classical Guitar Method: For Beginner to Intermediate Students [Book 1]
Jason Waldron
Manufacturer: Progressive
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Perfect for learning from the ground up.......2007-08-23

I love this book. I have been playing guitar for ten years and recently decided to learn classical. This book starts you out at a snail's pace, but by taking it slow, I was able to sight-read music in only three weeks. The approach is slow and easy, but effective, with a lot of great examples with multiple parts for the more advanced player that seem very simple at first glance, but end up challenging your brain and fingers. Great first classical guitar book.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......2006-06-29

I highly recommend this book. I purchased a lot of the wrong books for learning fingerstyle and other methods. This book takes you from beginner and beyond. I'm not a rank beginner but this covered all the basics quickly and clearly to impart an excellent review. The charming and progressively challenging etudes was what I was looking for to develop my skills for playing brazilian jazz. I like this book so much, I plan on purchasing the next level book. An excellent book.

GREAT TOOL.......2005-05-14

This is THEE best beginning classical guitar book I have found. I'm so excited to be 1/2 way through and can't wait to go on to the next book. Thank you Jason Waldron (author), you have opened the doors to beginners like me!

Excellent Classical Primer!.......2004-10-26

I've been playing the guitar for about a year on a steel string string acoustic when I decided to start playing classical so I bought a classical nylon guitar along with this method book from progressive.I had other progressive series books and primer but for the classical guitar this was the best.This book has about a hundred pages or so of quality lessons and excercises.The book is all musical notations and fingerstyle lessons.It doesn't contain any TAB lines.It also contains a fretboard guitar notes diagram and a music glossary at the end of the book.If you have a passion to learn classical guitar this is the book for you.

Jason Waldron- Progressive classical guitar.......2004-04-11

Excellent!
In 3 words: Concise, logical, correct!

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Nice, very nice.
Not enough info
Very useful flamenco book

Flamenco Guitar Method for Beginners
Anita Sheer , and Harry Berlow
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0769261434

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Intended as a primer to An Introduction to the Flamenco Guitar.

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Nice, very nice........2007-01-04

I love flamenco! This book is helping me learn the techniques and it is easy to use.

Not enough info.......2006-02-06

The books title is Flamenco for the beginner, a "primer" to the guitar, if you have absoulutely no knowledge of a guitar, and want a book that you will finish in literally 10 minutes this is probably good for you, other than that, I would stay away.There is so little info in here, I don't know why they bothered to publish it. Instead of leaving you with nothing, I will say you should get" 100 guitar tips you should have been told" it's not flamenco, but it will teach you a hell of a lot more than this book, and it can all be transfered over to necessary skills and learning for any style of guitar. But it is also just a beginner book. From what I have gathered so far, I think the serious student should get either a dvd, or instructor to learn the "art" of flamenco.

Very useful flamenco book.......2005-07-01

I have not fomrally had any guitar lessons or courses before buying this book. But I used to fool around the guitar and my hand got used to moving on the fret board.

Only recently I took it seriously and decided to learn flamenco. At first I was worried that this book doesn't have tablature to accompany it. But once I started studying it, I was amazed with the ease with which it goes through the lessons. It teaches basic notes string by string. I'm now half way through and I have learned so much.

This is a very good practice book for people starting in guitar and flamenco specially.

But again, you can't get the value of the book untill you practice...practice....practice...!

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Classical Guitar for Beginners
Nat Gunod
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Keyboard Strategies: A Piano Series For Group or Private Instruction Created For the Older Beginner, Master Text II

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Keyboard Strategies: A Piano Series For Group or Private Instruction Created For the Older Beginner, Master Text II

Manufacturer: G. Schirmer, Inc.
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Binding: Plastic Comb

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Especially written for the college music major with a primary instrument other than piano or the college piano major who wants to develop functional skills at the keyboard. Best in a second year college class, covering at least 2 semesters.

Absolute Beginners: Classical Guitar (Absolute Beginners)

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Absolute Beginners: Classical Guitar (Absolute Beginners)
Gerald Goodwin
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Progressive Guitar Method: Classical Guitar: Beginner (Progressive (Progressive))

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Progressive Guitar Method: Classical Guitar: Beginner (Progressive (Progressive))
Peter Gelling
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Enjoyable read
If you enjoy Vivaldi's Four Season's ...

Owlie and His Magic Music
Sharon Olexa Crandall , and Antonio Vivaldi
Manufacturer: Astoria Productions Ltd
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This former pediatric nurse, Sharon Olexa Crandall, has taken her love of children, music, and creative writing to present a tale that introduces the reader to Owlie, Oakie, Foxy and other inhabitants of the forest. These creature children of the forest combine their efforts over a year's seasons to put together a harmonious concert using their native talents. This book presents an artful primer on how youngsters can work together to resolve their differences showcasing the enchanting art of Yuri Salzman and including a free cd of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

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Enjoyable read.......2004-05-17

This was a unique book in that narrator on the CD "reads" the entire story for you. Overall, Vivaldi's music takes priority over either the story line(which is a bit silly) or learning the various instruments. Also, the voices could have been more distinctive as many sound similar--maybe two narrators or one with broader range would have been better. Also, I would've liked it more had there been more of an effort to teach the different sounds of the different instruments or possibly to hear them struggle with an instrument or miss a note(as would be the case with any child learning an instrument) and then improve and hear the difference. It might have been a nice opportunity to instill the child with the idea of learning an instrument can be difficult, but the rewards at the end are worth it. That being said, to hear the music while the story is read is certainly a delight and is likely to peak a child;s interest in learning more.

If you enjoy Vivaldi's Four Season's ..........2002-11-02

You and your child are in for a wonderful treat. As a mother of three boys, ages 1, 6, and 8, I'm continually looking for opportunities to introduce classical music to them in a fun and creative way. Owlie And His Magic Music book/cd do just that. The story and illustrations are very enchanting and capture the attention of the reader and looker/listener. You will read what happens when Owlie and his best friend Oakie, along with the other animal creatures of the forest prepare for the Summer Solstice Concert. The story is narrated right along with Vivaldi's Four Season's. This creative book/cd has a great lesson for all of us. And it allows children to feel the emotion that is in Vivaldi's masterpiece. The book/cd are a great way to end you and your child's day. I am looking forward to adding more of Sharon Olexa Crandall's books to my sons library~

Easiest Elementary Method for Beginners, Op. 38: Violin Method

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English/Spanish

Classical Music for Beginners (A Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book ; 66)

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Bravo for Classical Music for Beginners!
Short and Simple, yet Shallow

Classical Music for Beginners (A Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book ; 66)
Stacy Combs Lynch
Manufacturer: Writers & Readers Publishing
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Bravo for Classical Music for Beginners!.......2000-03-28

What a great approach to the subject of classical music! I think the cartoon drawings add a lot of life to what could be a very dry subject. Young people will especially find this book helpful. I enjoyed the humor and art very much!

Short and Simple, yet Shallow.......2000-02-19

Stacy Combs Lynch has given a beginners book on Classic Music, however I am not sure what age group the beginners have to be. Although there is some interesting information here, it seems as though something is missing in this book. Perhaps its not focused enough, for the idea of Classical Music alone can be very broad. She carts down the famous composers dedicating a page or two to each of them pertaining to different eras and different classical styles. Once in a while there is be an interuption in what a particular style or instrument does. Overall the book is brief and could have been better with more information. A better book is "Classical Music (Teach Yourself".

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This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented and demonstrates in particular how the "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.

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Ugh........2003-11-07

A terrible waste of shelf space.
This guy is curmudgeonly, arrogant and ill informed. He criticizes like-minded books in the field for their inaccuracies and yet this book is riddled with laughable errors.
Get a fact-checker, buddy.

'Buyer's Guide' is flawed but valuable resource.......2003-05-27

While it is still several years before DVDs completely push "Buyer's Guide to Fifty Years of TV on Video" into obsolescence, it may be useful to note that the book, for all of its flaws, contains some extremely valuable information.

Yes, the late Sam Frank hammers away relentlessly at the mistakes of other TV historians, then makes numerous errors of his own; and certainly his editorial comments often seem like unwarranted intrusions, even though the premise of an opionated buyer's guide isn't inherently wrong (Leonard Maltin's annual Video Guide is clearly meant at least in part to be a consumer guide, to name one example; yet the Maltin guide is superior because it is seems far less capricious).

Nonetheless, there are things here that are difficult to find elsewhere. For example, it lists the episodes available from many of the series released by Columbia House Video Library through mid-1997 (and does so in chronological order, rather than the order of each volume). Even if you ask Columbia House for a list of every episode it offers of, say, "The Untouchables," you will get just a list of episodes, with no airdates, and no plot descriptions. Frank doesn't always give you plot descriptions, but generally he does, and with the airdates included, you can at least choose episodes from your favorite period of the show's development, if you're so inclined.

Frank's guide is particularly good for anyone interested in television's so-called "Golden Age." He was a Baby Boomer, and takes a great interest in playing up -- and simultaneously debunking myths about -- what made this era special.

It is here that his editorializing, particularly on things like picture and sound quality, is quite useful, as there are some horrible third-or later-generation public domain video dubs out there that should be avoided. The worst of these sometimes use kinescopes that are just overexposed or otherwise compromised to begin with. Yet, there are others that look and sound quite good, and it's good to have a reference point that helps to make the distinction. Listings are included for a lot of the "Playhouse 90," "Studio One," "Four Star Playhouse" and other early anthology shows released by Video Yesteryear and other public domain dealers, many of which are still available through retailers like Movies Unlimited. Inevitably there are listings for dealers in the book that no longer exist, or have since stopped selling videos, but in the age of the Web, a lot of this stuff can be found.

The book also includes exhaustive appendixes about the history of videotape and the development of color television, which seem to be squarely aimed at TV historians. In fact, throughout "Buyer's Guide," Frank's extreme interest in both innovations is underscored again and again. His main point seems to be that old television shows that can now only be seen on somewhat blurry black and white kinescopes looked crisp and bright in their original telecasts, and for that reason, among others, we shouldn't automatically judge these shows, and the audiences who appreciated them, harshly today. Whenever Frank does find a tape of something shot on video before the late '60s that actually looks close to pristine, he makes sure to draw our attention to it. How relevant this is to the typical reader is open to conjecture.

Numerous items from the MPI Home Video catalog are another welcome feature, including their "Nightline" tapes, "Hullabaloo," "The Missiles of October" and more. Frank's overview and descriptions of a number of episodes in the "Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts" series are solid, and again represent something you don't see discussed very often today.

"Buyer's Guide" is a good supplementary reference if you've already got Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's "The Complete Directory to Primetime Network and Cable Television Programming: 1946 to Present," or Alex McNeil's "Total Television." Frank's myopia keeps it from being anything like the definitive tome he apparently envisioned, but it's hardly a disaster.

Too Much Bias.......2000-03-14

This book ultimately has to be had because it at least provides assistance to collectors in knowing what shows are on tape. Unfortunately the style of this book is atrocious. It is almost impossible to thumb through at random because something convenient like an alphabetical heading at the top of the page to key the reader as to where he is is not provided (this especially hurts when one flips through and finds a whole page spread and no sense of where one is at all!). And frankly, Mr. Frank's personal biases and assessments of various shows are just downright annoying and guaranteed to offend more people than inform them because he doesn't have the decency to offer a caveat at the beginning that others who don't share his politics, tastes in music etc. should take what he says about a lot of things with a grain of salt (I especially take umbrage to his characterization of Battlestar Galactica as a "bomb", saying not one word about Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" one of the most important TV miniseries ever produced, and I wanted to scream shut up everytime he opened his mouth about Richard Nixon and blacklisting). A simple reference guide with equal comment for each show in a neutral manner in the tradition of Brooks/Marsh, McNeil etc. would have worked much better. Those books aren't popular because readers want to know what they think of those shows, they just want the facts. In the end, Frank comes across as a man talking down to the reader and that defeats the whole point of the project. Even on those points where I do agree with him (I too love "Our World" and the Goodson-Todman panel shows) I think it was for the most part out of place.

Since Mr. Frank (who I understand has since passed away) sees fit though to talk about the errors of other reference sources, I should feel compelled to correct a goodly number that I found in just one afternoon after I bought the book.

1-In his review of "The Late Shift" Frank reverses the actors who played David Letterman and Jay Leno respectively.

2-John Brown did not leave the Burns And Allen Show because he was blacklisted. This occurred long after he had left the show, and in fact Burns did make an on camera reference to his departure as being because of "other committments." Also, Frank is dead wrong in his description of the transition from Fred Clark to Larry Keating in the Harry Morton part. First, the episode is available in the Columbia House series, and second it took place entirely with Keating.

3-His summation of Burns And Allen shows on tape is woefully incomplete.

4-NBC did not "bring" Steve Allen from New York to Hollywood in 1960, Allen personally asked for the show to move there so he could spend more time with his children from a previous marriage.

Authors with grudges should not write books........1999-12-03

When I first heard about this book being published I couldn't believe it! This is a dream come true! I can finally stop searching and let this book do all the working for me. What I found instead was an author that was very opinionated, arrogant and, I'm sure, held several grudges. In the beginning of the book he lists several sources of where to order the listed tapes (many of which is either wrong contact information or the companies are now out of business) Did he verify and update his sources before this book was published? He also includes a brief description of each company, many of which he criticizes. It almost seems the author either is an ex-employee or somehow clashed with these companies, but what he says ranges from total praise to downright rude, even calling some of these companies "Greedy" or "They steal from some of the other public domain companies". He also states throughout the book many complaints about companies who refused to give out thier owner's name or "lend" him screener tapes. Unfortunatly just because someone is writing a book does not mean that these companies are obligated to either lend him tapes, or they will receive a bad review. That aside I found the reviews not too helpful, I put this book down MANY times because the opinion got in the way. There are several sources to find information on what's out there without the opinion (the internet is a HUGE palce) so I cannot suggest this book.

One Star is not low enough.......1999-05-13

I had the same thoughts as above, but what the heck. The author is opinionated, inaccurate, and arrogant in the extreme. Everyone has a right to his or her own opinion, but not in a "buyers" guide. It is okay to praise, but...well, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. As mentioned in a previous review, Sam Frank's taste is highly questionable, and he rams it down the reader's throat. Quite frankly, the author's comments indicate a jerk. Not worth one's time or money. A real waste of space.

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The Illustrator 10 Wow! Book, a diverse cast of artists share both their work and the hands-on techniques behind each piece. Follow along as more than 100 of the country's top Illustrator artists take you on a beautiful, inspirational tour of the latest Illustrator features and how to use them, dispensing hundreds of hard-won tips and savvy shortcuts along the way. The Illustrator 10 Wow! Book covers the entire spectrum, from the basics to the sophisticated, making it a must-have for beginners and professionals alike.

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