Alfred Music Super Mario for Piano Easy Piano Sheet Music Book

Lots of songs but NOT beginner friendly

This is a really neat piano book. However as others have noted, it’s really not beginner friendly. I think “easy piano” is misleading because the level of play required to achieve these songs is intermediate at least. I’m sharing some photos to illustrate this. 4/5 for ample selection but misleading categorization of “easy”

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My kids loved it.

NOT for beginners!!

My 9 year old was super excited when this book arrived. Unfortunately it is DEFINITELY NOT an “easy” or “beginner” level. I included a few pictures of random pages for your reference. In the entire book there’s only one song that my Bastiens Level 3 kiddo could even begin to attempt. We’ll stick it on a shelf and hopefully revisit in a couple years.

Content is fun but the book has poorly cropped pages.

I would give this 5 stars for the content. My son enjoys the Super Mario music and is excited to play it on the piano. While the tempos of the pieces are beyond his skill, he is excited that this book makes familiar tunes accessible to him and this is inspiring him to pick away at them.

I agree with other reviewers that these pieces are not for beginners; but the term, "easy" is subjective. As with most books of this nature, some pieces are easier than others. My son is a beginner and while it will be a long time before he "masters" any of them, he is inspired to try, which is the reason that I purchased this book for him.

However, I expected higher quality control from Alfred Publishing. While this book is obviously new, it was cropped with some pages folded in, making for an uneven book when those pages are unfolded. I will have to cut the affected pages in order for the book to sit flat on the piano and I should not have to do this. In addition, those folded pages have ink smears, making the otherwise new/pristine pages appear smudged. (See the pictures posted for a better image of my complaints.)

I intend to keep this book because my son is already enjoying the content -- but I am unhappy that this book was not well inspected before being sold to me. If I had been able to purchase it locally, I would have flipped through it in the store and chosen one that was not incorrectly cropped.