Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Typical Dummies manual for piano

This book was a lot of fun to begin with, but I found the author's terse, supposedly humorous comments tedious after a while. The piano instruction portions are sound, however, and the CD provides a lot of jazzed up guidance and hints without being too overbearing. I'm not real sure that a pure beginner could learn to play from this book, but an advanced beginner to intermediate student would surely glean some useful hints from this book and have fun while doing so. I loved the author's section on how to improvise and improve a song ending. All in all, useful.