In my opinion, Schaum's piano course (from the 50's, I think!) is the best piano course published in the last 100 years. It's been given slick new covers, but the text hasn't changed.
There are eight lettered books, A-H. Then there are two "After the H Books" and one "Pre" book, called the "Green Book."
I myself used Alfred's and had some impressive success with that, but I must aver that Schaum's is a superior series. It takes the student much, much deeper and at a much more comfortable pace without, at any point, throwing anything horridly intimidating in his face.
I didn't know about Schaum's while I was learning piano or I would have switched over. As it is, I can still get put through my paces with the F, G, and H books, which take me into realms Alfred's did not get into, at least explicitly. And Alfred's certainly goes far deeper than either the Bastien or the Faber.
Too bad these don't come with CD's, at least to my knowledge.Get more detail about John W. Schaum Piano Course: A-The Red Book : Leading to Mastery of the Instrument.
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