Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course: Lesson Books

Teachers keep coming back to the complete series, starting with Lesson Book A and progressing through Book F. The most popular choice remains Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course: Lesson Book A: Piano Book, which is also available with online audio to reinforce listening skills alongside notation learning.

Willard A. Palmer authored this entire prep course series and wrote 789 published works across piano, accordion, guitar, and choral music, many translated into German, Japanese, French, Dutch, and Spanish. He was a child prodigy and later served as choir director of Memorial Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas.

Amanda Vick Lethco co-authored Alfred's Basic Piano Library with Palmer and Manus. She studied at Juilliard with James Friskin and served as Professor Emeritus of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin, bringing deep pedagogical expertise to the method's design.

Morton Manus served as president of Alfred Music Publishing from 1952 to 2016, overseeing the company's evolution from its roots in 1922 on Tin Pan Alley. His leadership shaped Alfred's trajectory into one of the most widely used music publishing houses for educational materials.