Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course CD for Lesson Book: Level 1

I bought Alfred's Basic Piano book from a local music store. A few days later I sat down to begin my lessons, only to discover I was missing something. The book instructed me to listen and play with the CD. What CD? Was there a CD that was suppose to come with this book? I went online to Amazon to order the CD. Great delivery and service. I must say that since I have the CD, things are different.

Terrible. Does not match book. They r trying to sell this like it matches the book. Not even close Waste of money. Just confused me

I don't know if the other two reviewers ordered the wrong item or Neptune pulled a fast one when the discs crossed the equator, but this CD (ISBN 0-7390-1752-7) is in fact the one that corresponds to Book 1 of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course. CD2 is also available from amazon and is ISBN 0-7390-1943-0. The CD's themselves are nothing special, just what they proport to be, piano and accompnyment for the lessons in each of the books.

I would have given this five sars if it had included instruments other than the piano. When you're learning to play a piece on the piano you dont need to hear other instruments drowning out the notes and rhythms you are trying to concentrate on. When the accompaniment is not the best it could be and its overpowering it makes it difficult to learn the piece you're working on. Even though the CD wasnt as good as I had hoped for it was better than not having anything at all. I was able to distinguish some of the examples and to play along with them despite the annoying accompanimens, so I gave it 4 stars.

Its rather confusing - this is NOT the CD for the Basic Adult All in One Piano Course Level 1 (alfreds product 11282).This is the CD for the Basic Adult Piano Course Level 1. (Alfreds product 14039)Alfred's really needs to clean up their product offering & product naming. I appreciate they try to sell the book, the book with CD, the book with DVD, the book with comb binding, the book with spiral binding, the book without comb or spiral binding. Honestly...just do spiral binding and put the CD with every book. The operational cost of printing different covers, shipping and taking returns, and so on would be reduced by simplifying the product line.I don't see the correct CD on Amazon. (That's not to say it might not be available in the future when you are reading this.) But you can visit the Alfred's publishing site for more info and to order the correct one. So I'm returning this one, and probably the separate book, and then I'll ahve to find the book + CD in a combined package elsewhere because that is also not on Amazon currently.

It helps me hear how I am supposed to play certain pieces in the accompanying book.

I bought the lesson book without the recordings.Since many of the training pieces weren't easily realized to me from what was printed, I thought maybe this would be useful. What's on the CD recording seemed to me lifeless and very heavily orchestrated in an unattractive manner. The orchestration left little room for the piano.I suppose someone greatly helped by underlying part for accompaniment might benefit more. For me, I think I was as well served by my elementary sheet music translation phone app. That could have me me a low quality lifeless translations... Without the heavy orchestration.Still it's a semi useful resource that was easy to convert to a collection of files which I could store on or stream from my phone, tablet, or computer.🫤

This book has helped more than any other that I have purchased.