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well you can dress it up however you like, but at the end of the day you need to know about music notation (theory etc), learn rhythmics, and of course, technique. The John Thompson books are as good as any for children. Its not so much the book that matters as the relationship between the pupil an...

I had a chat with my piano teacher today and she thinks those pinao teaching books (e.g John Thompson books, A dozen a day series) are too mechanical and boring for a learner nowadays. Therefore she wouldn't recommend to use and she thinks I would learn scales/theory as I go along with music books. ...

As a child I started learning piano but didn't get very far; not reaching grade 1. I was taught from the John Thompson and Lina Ng piano books. 10 years on I would like to start picking up piano again. I found a piano teacher and have had a couple of lessons. I was expecting to be taught in the same...