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Masterallen New user 50 Posts 
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I do recommend that you do start with a beginners book. Unlike myself I purchased and intermediate/ Advance book and didn’t understand how it was wrote and couldn’t follow it. It wasn’t until I read a beginners book that I understood how to follow a how these books are written. I went back to the advance book and now can understand. And follow.
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Olly Poncho New user 3 Posts
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Hello everybody. I thought I'd drop in with a set that I am finding fantastic. The Essential Card Magic Toolbox (mostly) by Liam Montier.
I've found his teaching style to be clear, and he spends a lot of time discussing why certain moves can be deceptive and giving what seems like really good advice. I'd recommend his series to anybody. https://bigblindmedia.com/products/essen......-montier |
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NEKKODDD New user 53 Posts
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Tarbell is a great set for beginner and/or experienced magician.
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diamondjack New user orlando,fl 58 Posts
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My first magic book was Darwin Ortizs' At the Card Table. I know, bad choice for a first book, but I stuck with it and I was hooked. I didn't get discouraged, I found something to aspire to. Of course I ended up going back and buying much simpler books but I never rewgretted buying Darwins' book first.
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EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 1398 Posts
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This topic has been of interest to me for a while, especially because I'm involved in introducing young people to card magic. So I decided to write an article about it, covering some of the top resources (both books and videos) that I'd recommend for newcomers to card magic. Here's a link to the article:
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FOR BEGINNERS IN CARD MAGIC https://playingcarddecks.com/blogs/all-i......rd-magic   BoardGameGeek reviewer EndersGame - click here to see all my pictorial reviews: => Magic Reviews <==> Playing Card Reviews <==> Board Game Reviews <== |
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Gwydeon Lichtertanz New user Germany 1 Post
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Is there a significant difference between "The Original Tarbell Lessons in Magic" (MARTINO FINE BOOKS, 1200pages e.g. amazon for ) and the series of publications with the single lessons?
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EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 1398 Posts
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For a beginner, one of the best books on card magic is Roberto Giobbi's Introduction to Card Magic. It's certainly the best value book you can get right now, since Mr Giobbi is generously making it available free for a limited time, to promote the art of card magic, and to help those who genuinely want learn the basics properly. The content is terrific!
He originally created it as a course for people learning card magic, and it teaches all the fundamentals of card handling, along with links to youtube videos showing the moves, and half a dozen tricks. See a detailed review on The Magic Café here, or else just download it from his website here: https://www.robertogiobbi.com/site/produ......rd-magic  BoardGameGeek reviewer EndersGame - click here to see all my pictorial reviews: => Magic Reviews <==> Playing Card Reviews <==> Board Game Reviews <== |
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mentaldiego New user Spain 63 Posts
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Tarbell
it has everything |
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Topper2 New user 76 Posts
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Tarbell is a mine of information, especially for those seeking to expand their background knowledge of magic, for that reason it is highly recommended. Where it falls down though is in actual tricks, if you buy a set of linking rings or multiplying billiard balls etc and then consult Tarbell for suitable routines you are going to find yourself very disappointed; it simply doesn't match up to modern requirements. I remember deciding I needed to find some decent impromptu card effects I could do with a borrowed deck and I went through the whole of Tarbell without finding a single trick that I felt was strong enough to be worth doing - not one!
Someone above asked about the difference between the Tarbell lessons and the Tarbell course in book form. If you have all 8 Volumes of Tarbell then you're going to have far more material that that available in the Lessons, and the order of the that things appear in is different too; but the Lessons is still a valuable book and you could call it 'Tarbell Lite', good for those who don't really feel the need to go through 8 volumes. Does Tarbell really contain everything as is often claimed? Well of course it doesn't, nowhere near in fact, but no book on magic no matter how big it is could contain everything. If the world of magic could be condensed into a mere series of books, even a very large series, then it would never have survived the hundreds and possibly thousands of years that it has been happily going for. |
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weirdwizardx Veteran user 341 Posts
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I would recommend the fine art of magic by kaplan
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Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1110 Posts
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On Nov 13, 2019, weirdwizardx wrote: Now available in an expanded 2nd edition both as PDF and hardcover: https://www.lybrary.com/the-fine-art-of-......399.html
Lybrary.com preserving magic one book at a time.
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magic.99 Regular user 108 Posts
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Anything by Giobbi would be an excellent place to start, especially Card College and the DVD sets that you can now get to accompany the books. This will give you a fantastic foundation...
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magic.99 Regular user 108 Posts
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EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 1398 Posts
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On Feb 3, 2020, magic.99 wrote: You're right. It was only available for free for a relatively short time, as a promotion after Giobbi updated and revised it in 2019. The earlier version (2012) of this e-book originally sold for €9.95. But in order to promote the art of card magic and to help budding magicians, Giobbi has made the updated and improved 2019 version available at a reduced price of just €6.95. So there is only a minimal cost to download it, and I think most beginners will find that it is well worth it. BoardGameGeek reviewer EndersGame - click here to see all my pictorial reviews: => Magic Reviews <==> Playing Card Reviews <==> Board Game Reviews <== |
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MSaber New user 50 Posts
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I found these videos to be a good resource for me when I began learning: https://www.youtube.com/user/DecksAndContests/featured
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