--- product_id: 3617355 title: "John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book" price: "AR$40719" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3617355-john-w-schaum-piano-course-pre-a-the-green-book store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book **Price:** AR$40719 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book - **How much does it cost?** AR$40719 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3617355-john-w-schaum-piano-course-pre-a-the-green-book) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations. This is the Primer level. Review: Best Beginner Piano Book for Children and Adults - I have taught piano to children and adults for over 60 years. This is the only book I will use for starting beginners. Even when I taught adult classes for piano, this book brought about consistent success. Why? The notes are large. The pages are uncluttered with "talk." The exercises move from page to page in logical steps, not too big, not too fast. And most of all, the student can master the right hand alone and the left hand alone before the confusion of combining hands. This also means reading treble clef alone and bass clef alone before reading both clefs. Another solid feature of this book is that the answers are often at the top of the page where the student is shown what keys to use. Near the back of the book, exercises start to use two hands. Then there are six songs at the end for two hands that serve as recital type pieces. They are interesting, very melodic, and boost confidence. This book is so well constructed that a person can almost teach themselves. When my students go on vacation or miss lessons, I tell them to go back to the beginning and work their way up to the page they were playing on. This is a great review and works within minutes to put the student back on course. There are fancier beginner books and prettier piano books. But this book is an old reliable standard in which I have about 95 to 98% success with training young and old. From this they go into a book requiring two hands at once. Review: Perfect Books - Delivered gently,the books were in perfect condition. ## Features - Alfred Publishing Co. Model#EL00165A ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #13,847 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #38 in Piano & Keyboards #47 in Songbooks #85 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,721 Reviews | ## Images ![John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61fhIxqUZFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Beginner Piano Book for Children and Adults *by P***Y on July 11, 2024* I have taught piano to children and adults for over 60 years. This is the only book I will use for starting beginners. Even when I taught adult classes for piano, this book brought about consistent success. Why? The notes are large. The pages are uncluttered with "talk." The exercises move from page to page in logical steps, not too big, not too fast. And most of all, the student can master the right hand alone and the left hand alone before the confusion of combining hands. This also means reading treble clef alone and bass clef alone before reading both clefs. Another solid feature of this book is that the answers are often at the top of the page where the student is shown what keys to use. Near the back of the book, exercises start to use two hands. Then there are six songs at the end for two hands that serve as recital type pieces. They are interesting, very melodic, and boost confidence. This book is so well constructed that a person can almost teach themselves. When my students go on vacation or miss lessons, I tell them to go back to the beginning and work their way up to the page they were playing on. This is a great review and works within minutes to put the student back on course. There are fancier beginner books and prettier piano books. But this book is an old reliable standard in which I have about 95 to 98% success with training young and old. From this they go into a book requiring two hands at once. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Books *by V***D on December 25, 2025* Delivered gently,the books were in perfect condition. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good beginner book for young child *by B***Y on April 22, 2015* Purchased to begin piano lessons with my 5th child (age 5, recently learned to read words). Have used John Thompson's beginner books previously. (The one with the little monsters on them - books 1 and 2). Bought this because at the end of Thompson 1st grade book with other children, the jump to 2nd grade book seemed rather high, so I use Schaum's Blue book (B) for some of my kids and Thompson 2nd grade for others, depending on skill/preference. Decided to start the 5th child with both Schaum and Thompson books from the start. Great beginning lessons. Begins with learning finger numbers and 6 short melodies (copied from teacher's example playing). Learns the melodies without staff or note names. Note names added next, then staff added last. These melodies use all 5 fingers in each hand, but hands are played separately. Next song after this repetitive 6 mini-songs uses some of 5 fingers (notes middle C through E in right hand) and progresses back up. So far, we like it a lot and seemed easier to begin than Thompson, but the Thompson does a better transition of slowly explaining note values (whole, half, quarter) and position on staff. (one note value at a time, then one note at a time). Will be using both together, but this could totally be used by itself also. ## Frequently Bought Together - John W. Schaum Piano Course: Pre-A : The Green Book - Schaum Note Spellers Book 1 (Schaum Method Supplement, Bk 1) - John W. 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