There are plenty of options for learning to play the piano. At the beginning, the question often arises: Which is the best piano method for me or my child? This page is intended to show which different piano methods and textbooks for piano are available and to give you an overview.
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There are a variety of available piano methods for children, usually sorted by age and often in several volumes that build on each other. In our shop you will also find many more Piano methods for children.
Nancy & Randall Faber
Piano Adventures Primer Level – Lesson & Theory is an exciting Piano method that teaches children analysis, creativity and musical expression. Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Primer Level All In Two Edition provides an integrated, step-by-step approach to music reading, a wide range of musical styles.
James Bastien
The classic among piano methods for children: The series, which has been tried and tested for decades and is recommended by piano teachers, ensures steady, uninterrupted progress through carefully graded, logical learning sections. As preparation, the volume Primer is ideal for introducing younger children to the piano school.
The interesting pieces in all styles have been lovingly arranged by the Bastiens, and pupils learn all 12 keys and the most important basics for successful piano playing.
Anne Terzibaschitsch & Regula Buser
There used to be a time when children, both in the country and in towns, sang a lot. They sang as they played and danced. With the help of this Piano tutor, you can also now play and dance: with your fingers. And you can also sing the many children's songs you'll find in this book: with their words, or with the names of the notes.
With time, you can even - if you've practiced hard enough - sing the songs while accompanying yourselves on the Piano.
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Agnieszka Lasko
The piano school by Agnieszka Lasko is based on the successful guitar school by Tatiana Stachak and is trilingual, German, English and Polish and suitable for children from the age of 5.
The content is divided into four parts, varied and focuses mainly on duets between teacher and pupil.
The European Piano Method by Fritz Emonts
Pianistico! by Anselma Veit &Hiroyo Masumara
The Lang Lang Piano Method
Piano Junior by Hans-Günter Heumann
Learning to play the piano as an adult? The best thing you can do!
Whether you already have some beginner skills or are starting from scratch: With the right piano school, you can still access music in adulthood and make rapid progress.
Most Piano methods for adults are also well suited for teenagers.
Amanda Vick Lethco, Morton Manus, Willard Palmer
Adult All-In-One Course is a unique set of lessons aimed towards the adult piano student. The fields of theory, technique, lessons and repertoire are all contained within one volume. Includes an accompanying CD.
Nancy & Randall Faber
Adult Piano Adventures enables the adult beginner to play music for pleasure while developing musical understanding. This comprehensive, “All-In-One” book includes lessons, technique, and theory in a single volume for ease of use.
Book 1 presents the fundamentals of music notation, chord playing, and musical form. The redesigned layout improves information hierarchy, putting focus on key concepts and step-by-step learning.
Alan Bullard & Janet Bullard
Written especially for the older beginner, Pianoworks 1 explains all you need to know to get you started on the piano. It focuses on the traditional concept of learning to play from music but also includes hints on improvisation and playing by ear.
At every stage there is an appealing and accessible range of pieces to play, from classical to modern in style, including a number of new pieces by the authors.
New ideas are introduced at a steady pace, and examples and exercises reinforce learning and build confidence.
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Mike Cornick
Written especially for the adult beginner, Play the Piano! Levels 1 and 2 may be used either as a 'teach-yourself' method or with the help and guidance of a teacher. The 'returning beginner' will also find this ideal. The key issue is enjoyment whilst gaining the skills of making music.
John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano
Adult Piano Method
Bastien Piano for Adults
The Rusty Pianist by Pamela Wedgwood
Gone are the days when musicians interested exclusively in pop music had to slog through classical piano schools only to learn their own pop techniques by imitating the stars. In the meantime, there are many tuition books for pop and rock pianists!
Mark Harrison
Complete method for playing piano and keyboards in contemporary styles.
Andrew Scott & Gary Turner
Progressive Rock Piano covers all aspects of rock Piano playing, featuring the most common rock chords and progressions. Special emphasis is placed on music theory as it relates to rock, including bluesscales,chord construction and substitution in the most common rock keys.
A basic chord chart section and glossary of musical terms are also included.
Mathias Leber
A fun way to practice rock riffs in all 12 keys just as you would your scales and arpeggios.
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Jürgen Moser
Learn to play the Piano styles of today's top rock, pop, and jazz artists with Piano Styles Of 23 Pop Masters: Secrets Of The Great Contemporary Players.
Great for beginner to intermediate Piano players, and including the melodic and harmonic techniques of 23 iconic performers, including Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Elton John and Stevie Wonder , to name just a few.
A must for players who really want to get inside the styles of their favorite artists.
The Rock House Method: Learn Piano
The Rockschool Piano Method
How to Play R&B and Soul Keyboards
Rock'n'Roll Piano by Andy Vinter
Ambitious amateur piano players, classicists and aspiring pianists take note! No study library should be without these textbooks:
Penelope Roskell
The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime’s experience of teaching, performing and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing.
Containing more than 500 pages of text, 300 videos and 200 exercises newly devised by the author, this is the most comprehensive book ever written on piano playing. The book has something new to offer to all pianists and keyboard players – student and teacher, professional and amateur.
Carl Humphries
With clear and easy-to-understand exercises, The Piano Handbook is perfect for anyone interested in learning the piano or improving their skills. It provides fresh material and techniques in styles ranging from classical to jazz, rock, bebop and fusion, and gives new players everything they need to learn and enjoy the piano.
This book's innovative tutorial approach covers classical and contemporary music styles in an integrated way, and the companion audio brings the playing techniques and concepts to life.
Anton Rubinstein, Teresa Carreno
With Rubinstein considered Liszt's only possible rival on the concert stage, and Carreño as the foremost woman pianist of the late nineteenth century, it is an unexpected gift that both have left behind insights into that supremely important — but grossly neglected — aspect of performance called "the soul of the piano": the art of piano pedaling.
Their treatment of pedaling is of the utmost importance, not only from a historical standpoint, but for what it can still teach even the most sophisticated player.
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Julia Hülsmann
How does one learn to improvise? The well-known jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann provides an easy and accessible introduction to Modern Piano Improvisation in this first volume of the series. In 15 easy pieces she shows how to use just a few tones to develop your own improvisational ideas and motifs.
In Recital for the Advancing Pianist, Duets - by Helen Marlais
Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist
Professional Piano Teaching
The piano offers many more possibilities beyond classical and pop! Find instructional books and methods to perfect more styles on the piano here
Mark Davis
The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano – from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary.
There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book!
You can find even more jazz for piano on our special page Learn and Play Jazz Piano
Diego Collatti
In recent years the tango has re-emerged and is enjoying popularity once again. The publication of this new educational tango album by Diego Collatti is particularly well timed and will surely be of great interest to teachers and anyone wanting to learn to play music of this fascinating genre. A brief history is included. The pieces progress in difficulty.
Jimmy Peart
Reggae music continues to grow in popularity. This folio thoroughly explores the many sounds of this music for the piano and organ player. This step-by-step method illustrated the various rhythmic and melodic techniques unique to reggae music, and the accompanying CD allows you to hear the exercises and play along with them.
Tim Richards & John Crawford
The latest publication in this award-winning series. This unique collaboration between two of the UK's top pianist/educators offers intermediate pianists a detailed introduction to the highly rhythmic music of Latin America and Spain, featuring a wide range of styles from many countries.
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