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Title: Does not stand on its own as a self-teaching method.
Review: Play Piano Today! - Level 1 (The Ultimate Self-Teaching Method), comes with a book and audio CD. The book does a fair job of showing some of the basics, but it could have been a lot better. Right off the bat they start giving you musical pieces to play, but they don't tell you how to do it. This might be ok, if you knew how to play years ago and wanted a refresher. But if you have never played the piano before, this book will not show you how to do it. Likewise, the CD starts right out of the gate telling you to play things, but doesn't first tell you how to do it. Overall, I would call this product far from the Ultimate Self-Teaching Method, or a complete guide to the basics, which is how they bill themselves.
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