The Essentials of Great Hymn Arrangements Review

Do you play the hymns? Are you stuck playing them out of a hymnal or some other type of sheet music? Are you tired of all that madness? Well, The Essentials of Great Hymn Arrangements, by Yoke Wong, will free you from church sheet music if that’s what you are looking for.

The Essentials of Great Hymn Arrangements is a piano course focused on teaching you how to play hymns or church music. The concept is simple. Well known hymns are used throughout the course and arranged right before your very eyes. Every arranging technique is explained and shown up-close and in detail.

As with all of Yoke Wong’s piano courses, this one is beautiful. I enjoyed the layout of the four DVDs along with the workbook which contains all of the songs in each piano lesson.

To say there is anything wrong with this set of piano lessons would be for me to nitpick. I will warn you of this one thing. Yes, the course does cover hymns in many different styles, but it is not exhaustive by any means. A variety of styles are covered which makes this a great course to really whet the appetite of the aspiring church musician. Don’t let this fact scare you from the course however. There is plenty of material here to keep the average (or if you prefer, the intermediate) pianist busy for months on end.

Conclusion:

Audio & Video Quality – Very, very, very nice.

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Lesson Materials – The materials are perfect. All four DVDs are in one case which I like. The lesson book is formatted very clean and there is an ample amount of space to write notes as you watch the piano lessons.

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Lesson Instructions – I personally love Yoke Wong’s approach to teaching. She is always warm and genuine. She covers a wide range of ideas in this course that will push your piano playing to new levels.

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Fun Factor – She really delivers her materials well and doesn’t hold back any of her tricks of the trade. The lessons are hard to put down because they are so easy to apply.

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Value – There is a total of 6 hours of DVD material which unfolds to much more when you really start getting into it. It currently sells for $140 which brings it to around $23 an hour. I really think a decent teacher would spend 12-18 hours teaching you what is contained in these DVDs if you could even find one.

With all that said, I think these lessons are a bargain. They are a good deal in my opinion.

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Yoke Wong’s The Essentials of Great Hymn Arrangements is a very impressive piano lesson course. Through and through it delivers solid lessons, lessons that will make you a better player, lessons that will help you lead people into the worship of God.

If you can sight read basic sheet music (3-6 months of sight reading) then you might be ready for this course. If you play by ear and need a few new moves at the piano then this will give you tons of ideas. If you know nothing at all about playing piano then stay away. This is not for a complete beginner. I think most people would find this course a pure joy to learn from.

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