The Piano Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering Piano by Carl Humphries Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Piano Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering Piano
Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I consider myself an intermediate piano player, but I love this book. Yes, it does take you through the lessons rather quickly, but it is just as good as a teacher if not better. I highly recommend for anyone who is an amateur or intermediate piano player.Book Review: Perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
More than I could wait for. Amazing cover and pages layout, quality and content with focus on beginners and intermediate. This book gives a solid foundation on the basis of piano's world. Highly recommended!! A++Book Review: It's truly a real guide!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes you ran out of words when you want to describe something magnificent,as this book is.The book itself has everything a piano student would like to know in relation to piano origins, composers,techniques and the songs that made this artist withstand the test of time.I was recently watching a french movie titled "Le silence de la mer"and it's about the french resistance back in the second world war.The movie contains two songs that are on this book, one is Bach's "mussette" and the other Bach's "Prelude in C". While I was watching the movie and the songs appeared, I was like "hey this songs I recognize"went back to the book, and yes they are here. As I am writing this review, I know the Mussette, and I am preparing the prelude in c too.But apart from this experience, the book has beautiful illustrations, history and it really guides you through the technique that we are looking forward to perfect. Carl Humphries thank you very much for such an excellent work,we want to see your next one coming soon!Book Review: A Piano Book of a Different Color
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a lovely and handy book. It is unusual to find a spiral bound hard cover book. It is very good quality for the price, with somewhat glossy pages and good illustrations. It's an oddball type of book, in that it moves quickly through the material and yet covers the most basic information. It's excellent for someone like me, a self-taught pianist, with some good skills and a groundwork in music theory, who needs some pointers on technique, some progressive sight reading practice...the type of things you would learn in standard piano lessons. For me, the absolute best part of the book (and I am only in unit 2) is the CD. To hear a relatively easy piece from the book, such as the Purcell on page 58 (with only one tricky measure rhythm-wise, at least for me) played so beautifully...a humbling experience. The pianist with subtle interpretive elements makes what sounded like an exercise when I played it into something truly lovely. That's the kind of thing you can't learn on your own. And it inspires me to think beyond notes, rhythms and mastering a piece into the soul of a piece I saw merely as a tool for progression. So I'm very happy with the book.
Book Review: Not for everyday use
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good reference guide, with useful information on piano history and music theory. It is not a practical daily piano textbook.