John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano -Third Grade | Intermediate Piano Method Book | Piano Sheet Music for Students and Teachers | Essential Technique and Musical Expression Guide

I began piano lessons when I was in 1st grade, and my teacher used “Teaching Little Fingers How to Play” as my very 1st music book. Once successful with that, she moved me on thru the John Thompson series. Books 1-5. I loved those books! They had a great range of all different kinds of songs and difficulty. And they had pictures. Of them all, the 3rd grade book was my all-time favorite. Unfortunately, I loaned it to someone years ago and have always wished I still had it. Then I discovered that I, too, could STILL have it because Amazon carried it! Happy as a lark, I am! I'm in my 70’s now, and it's so much fun to be able to play my favorite songs once again 60 years later!

Stick with John Thompson using these graded books for your piano students! Sure bet in exactly what each piano teacher should use!!! I’ve taught over 30 years of piano students, these books helped me greatly with the progress of my students !!! Very sound theories of tracing piano!!

After years of not having a piano in her home, my 88-year-old mother has a beautiful electronic piano which fits in her tiny apartment. At first her fingers and eyesight were a frustration to her playing. Now, after a month of practice her fingers move more freely, and her eyes have adjusted to reading those tiny dots called notes. She ordered the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade versions of John Thompson's piano books. (She could only find the beginner versions in the local music store.) The first two arrived today and you should have heard her excitement. She said the books were even better than she had expected. I am very grateful these books were available to order on Amazon. I love having a happy Mama.

I bought this one for my collection of piano teaching books. It is worth every penny. Was difficult to find where I live, but I gladly found it here.

I am a piano teacher and a huge fan of the Thompson books. I learned out of them, and have all my students learn from them because they include so much really great classical music. I hate that the early books include finger numbers above every note, so I cross them out, but by the Second Grade and this 3rd Grade book, the included fingering notations are an important part of the editing. These pieces challenge the students, but also become some of their favorite pieces to play. They really require the students to play more expressively, including dynamics, phrasing, and other accents, etc. Great book!

The book for piano was in excellent shape, reasonably priced and arrived in a timely fashion. I would order from this vendor again.

I am 67 years old, and have spent a few years learning to play the piano. Learning comes slow to those of us who have so many old habits that now prove obstacles to new learning & must be revised to accommodate this learning. I teased my wonderfully patient teacher by chiding her for promoting me from kindergarten to third grade after only six years of study & practice. She appropriately told me I was rapidly progressing into piano. The book is very well presented and explains things like style, mood, interpretation, and form. The selections are all fun after appropriate practice and some helpful additional instruction. (One would likely be lost with this book not knowing a host of other technical details about printed music.) Unfortunately the author only mentions the more technique-oriented and/or technical challenges one faces at this time in one's study. His mention is only a paragraph aimed at selling another of his books on that topic. It is a mystery only booksellers can answer why he needed another book to contain his subject and mine instead of putting it all into one collection. A glimpse at the back cover illustrates the depths of this challenge: the author there offers another seven "third grade" music books. The book is also "modern" in the quaintly academic sense that it contains music from what the academics call the modern centuries (C16-C20); according to their preferred doctrines we now live in the "post modern" era which began sometime in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the precise moment of its birth as yet unsettled. That is not necessarily wrong; we all need orientation from the past. But it is important also to not get lost in the past.

The addition of the cd for this book made it great for me to hear how the piece is suppose to sound before I play it. I was just beginning to start this book in the late sixties when I had to end lessons due to financial hardships. I am now picking up where I left off and the cd made it possible to self teach myself. Now that we're in the new times of using cd's for music teaching aids this book became a no-brainer. For some reason the third grade book is the only one offering a cd in the course. I want to encourage the publishers to make cd's for the rest of the series (grades four and five).

Très bon livre pour piano. Très bien structuré, merci

Must buy book.

I am in my fifties and teaching myself to play the piano. This is a fantasic course of learning books that have helped me understand all the bits that i have struggled with in the past.

its good

Für dass Üben ist es ein gutes Klavierbuch, Es past in die Reihenfolge die bei frühere Klavierstudien gemacht ist mehr kan ich nicht wünschen.