Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, it is essential to have a piano book to either learn from scratch or to learn new skills from. These books, written popularly acclaimed professionals, serve as top reference points and go-to books you can learn from in a step step format.

Most lists online cover only a part of piano lessons but the books listed here are comprehensive books containing everything you are looking for in a piano book, covering all aspects from technique, method theory, musicianship, etc.

In no particular order, this list contains the most popular piano books of all time, rated relevance of content, volume of sales, how well they are talked about and how many people recommend them. By reading these books, you can be sure to have learnt how to play the piano even without the need for any instructor.

Lets go.

1. Learning To Play Piano – Denes Agay – First released in 1992, this incredible book teaches you how to play in a systematic progression and changes the way you see pianos forever. It breaks learning into really simple bits and makes the new learner confident all through the way. Covering technique, music theory and musicianship all in one.



2. Easiest Piano Course – John Thompson – A classic, comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of children beginning the piano. Includes: colorful characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * and more. Contains worksheets, reading-aloud exercises and accompaniments for teacher or parent.



3. Piano Basics Bastien – The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary style. With powerful usage of illustrations all round to keep the readers interested yet focused.



4. Basic Keyboard Workout John Dutton – While it’s one thing to plug in a keyboard and play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” it’s quite another to discover all the possibilities of harmony, chords and counterpoint.



The key to being a successful keyboard pro is versatility. Basic Keyboard Workout offers you a pocket-sized guide packed to capacity with everything the modern working keyboard player needs to play and understand to get the best from their instrument. Beginning with the questions of posture and simple playing techniques, this book then becomes a full theory guide that takes you into the worlds of harmony, scales, chords and rhythms.



Lessons include: Starting to read music; Basic rhythms and time values; Major and minor diatonic harmony; Inversions and intervals; Playing and recognizing music ear; Technical skills such as voicings, pedalling and developing your dexterity; and more, all explained in clear and simple English.



You will then find a full and detailed guide to your equipment, including how to set up correctly, using and abusing MIDI, how to work with samplers and sequencers, and much more besides.



5. Piano For Dummies Blake Neely – Originally published in 1998, this book remains an amazing reference for learning to play the piano yourself. this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory and applies it to playing the piano.


And if you’ve been playing piano for a while – or took piano lessons when you were a child but haven’t played since – you can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing or use the book as a refresher course.

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