Customer Reviews
reall good - By: D. Bebb, 13 Jan 2008 
one of the worst things when learning an instrument is frustration, something i have experienced whilst reading other books on the subject of piano/keyboards. this book tells you how to play in plain english & goes into good depth on the basics of playing. you never feel overwhelmed.
highly recommended
5 stars to what the book tries to achieve - By: R. Oliveira, 15 Mar 2007 This book is very straight-forward & if you're reallly personallly committed to learn the piano, not reallly caring for the deeply technical part of it, it is a must-have. It is not to be taken very seriously. The book aims to teach you the principles of playing the piano & that Mark Phillips indeed achieved. I bought it without knowing much about music or piano & after 4 months studying it, I already knew how to play 2 pieces like a true prodigy. However, music is a very intricate art & to be a real musician, Piano For Dummies may be your start point, but not your back bone to music.
There is reallly, indeed, much much more to music after "Piano for Dummies", & beginners must realise that. It is a great buy if you're wanting to play the piano just for the fun of it, but if you want real technical knowledge & to be a professional, you must go far beyond this book.
Disappointing - By: , 15 Sep 2005 
Too many irritating bad jokes & not enough substance.
the dummy and idiot market is insatiable - By: , 24 Mar 1999 
We've learned in the past few years that there are many more dummies in the world than we had reckoned on & that the dummies are much more ambitious than we had supposed. They want to be taught to do everything. In any case, this is a serviceable work for persons of average intelligence (or so), but of course there are many other general method books available, many of them much better (and there are piano teachers as well.) I particularly recommend PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
