Czerny - Practical Method for Beginners on the Pianoforte Opus 599 Piano Technique Book | Classical Piano Method for Early to Intermediate Level | ... for Students and Teachers: Op. 599 (Buonamici

This book is a great product for someone new to playing piano and in my opinion this work in particular is necessary for learning to read sheet music starting from very basic excersizes to help you read notes etc to excersizes that actually help you develop finger dexterity and the ability to play with both hands at once, for beginners you wont be disappointed with the speed of improvement that you see, especially if you are self taught like me. Personally i recommend buying this book alongside some hanon to help further improve your technique.

Very helpful!

A good piece of music.

Bought as instructed by piano teacher to strengthen my sons fingers when playing. He is working towards his grade one piano exam and it is nice to hear him playing classical music rather than kids piano music for a change.

I bought this book for my son I would say this book best suits a beginner to intermediate piano player (ABRSM level 1-5.) Overall, the Czerny OP. 599 is a great supplemental book that offers all the technical music you would need in the beginning years of learning the piano.

I grew up on Czerny's Method and Hanon's Exercises, and wanted to give my current student clean, new copies. Whereas Hanon is for finger dexterity, Czerny is for contrasting both hands and enjoying technical accomplishments. Getting to grips with these exercises, and working through them steadily, ensures great flexibility and strength in the fingers, and trains the mind and memory like no other sets of exercises do. Despite the pages of black dots, these can be fun to play, quite tuneful (even hummable – try using some of them as vocal exercises too!) and satisfying. I recommend using them together with today's more modern (but often less exacting) approaches to learning to play the piano.

Good Book for hand techniques

Like many music books that claim to be for beginners, this definitely isn’t. The progress is very fast so you would need other books to fill the gaps, which is not really affordable for students. It would work better for an adult returning to playing after a break.

I am an adult learner who started from ground 0 in piano (and music education) in April of this year (2016). The book I chose to start with was the Alfred Adult All-In-One course Book One. I was really motivated and got to around page 90 of that book in about 3 weeks time. I guess I was trying too hard, my left hand started to hurt. I had to completely stop playing to rest my hand for about 2 weeks. I stopped learning from that book after that, plus I really didn't like the songs in that book. But by then, I had enough of the very basics to be able to learn to play some of the songs in Burgmuller Twenty Five Easy and Progressive Studies. For theories, I studied The Complete Book of Scale, Chords..... I even practiced using the Hanon book. I learned to play the complete Fur Elise (all three sections) to a fairly OK level. All seemed to go OK, until I came upon this new song. I heard on the radio and found the sheet for it. I spent 3 days on it and could not get past the first half page, I was literally mapping out each note to the fingers and was going note by note, finger by finger. Luckily, I came upon this brilliant young concert pianist Yuja Wang. She plays over 100 concerts every year all over the world and there are many clips of her amazing playing on youtube. In one of her interviews, she mentioned it usually takes her 3 days to learn a new concert piece, the kind that lasts 20, 30, 40 minutes. A light bulb went off in my head, she must not be learning it note by note, finger by finger. Long story short, in China, learning to play the piano is very popular. The serious students go through a very thorough training program that usually starts around age 6. The Czerny books are very much part of that regime. It is said if one masters Czerny book 599, followed by books 849 and then 299, that puts the person in the mid level of piano playing. While I will continue to search for more materials to supplement the three Czerny books, I know I am on the right path now. I needed to get through the past 8 months to be where I am today, I consider that pre-learning. The real learning starts with this book. In case anyone is interested, there are complete sets of training video on youtube for this book.

Me gustó mucho el contenido, son 100 ejercicios que aumentan gradualmente el nivel de dificultad. El material del libro es bueno aunque no es sencillo plegarlo para su lectura. Considero indispensable para iniciar a estudiar el piano. Junto a HANON y BURGMÜLLER son herramientas que permiten desarrollar un buen entendimiento del instrumento.

Muy buena edición con digitación correcta! Algunos comentan que está mal porque pone diferentes dedos en las mismas notas pero si eres profesional entiendes que es el mejor ejercicio para reforzar los dedos y practicar su independencia. Recomendable

from the page nr 1 there are mistakes in the numbering, ex 1 repeated note C is marked as 1 and successfully as 2 twice, it will require verifying and correcting exercises before playing. i do not advice to purchase this edition again. marked as 2 because it is Czerny and it is easy to find the right notations...

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