She happily gives me a " concert" of the pieces she's learned every week and I can see amazing progress as the book brings her along slowly and surely.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Enchantingly illustrated, in full-colour throughout, this essential and irresistible book will encourage the young pianist to expand his or her learning in the most enjoyable way. Me And My Piano Part 2 takes the young pianist step-by-step through the early stages of piano technique, first with separate hands, then with a sequence of very easy pieces for hands together. Fanny Waterman s success as a teacher stems from her concentration on security of technique combined with the development of imagination and musicianship.

She has a half-an-hour a week lesson, one-to-one with a tutor at school and because there were so many fights over practicing, I've now got the boy next door giving her an hour a week for pocket money.

These books are a great way to work out if your child has any talent or inclination to persue music before paying an expensive music teacher. Her series of ten master-class programmes entitled Fanny Waterman s Piano Progress was screened on Channel 4 in the 1980s, and she is also joint founder, with Marion Harewood, of the Leeds International Piano Competition.