Found a piano instructor on Youtube teaching & performing all exercises of piano method books!

Been browsing tons of piano learning books over the past few days. After reading what were probably several hundred detailed reviews, I decided to purchase these two: Bastien Piano for Adults, and Alfred's Self-Teaching Adult Piano Course.

The reviews provided great insight about the books, yet the biggest thing that swayed me are the Youtube videos of a piano teacher that I *chanced* upon.

He posted hundreds of videos of him going thru the exercises on those books, talking as if the viewer is his student. It's essentially like having a teacher sitting next to you, giving you pointers about the material and the piece, and showing you the right way to perform it! Pretty amazing!

Loved his dry humour and no-nonsense attitude to teaching too!

Here's a video of the teacher describing his channel:

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I also found videos of pieces from piano method books being performed, but it's all just straight performance of the exercise piece and nothing else.

Here's a side-by-side comparison:

Here's a guy performing the Scarborough Fair exercise from page 87 of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Level 1: Scarborough Fair - PianoNoobAlexMan. 56-second of just the performance, nothing else.

Here's the piano instructor's treatment of page 87: Scarborough Fair - Lets Play Piano Methods

His video is almost 7 times longer, spending the better part of it discussing the new things that were introduced, giving pointers on how to play the piece of the exercise, and playing it.


Amazon says I should receive the books next week. So excited!

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*chanced* = I discovered his Youtube channel after searching for additional additional info about the Bastien, Alfred's, and Faber (3rd book on my list) piano method books on Google. (because somehow, the hundreds of reviews already on Amazon didn't seem enough)