In 14 clearly organized lessons you will learn how to handle a deck of cards like a pro. And along the way you will acquire some amazing, yet simple card tricks, which will allow you to successfully perform a little card act for an audience.
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Lesson 1: Tools and Instruments
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Lesson 2: Getting Acquainted With Your Instrument
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Lesson 3: Your First Techniques: Basic Shuffles
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Lesson 4: Your First Card Trick: "The Mystery of the Triangle"
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Lesson 5: Ordinary Cuts
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Lesson 6: A Small Card Miracle: "The Cards Know"
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Lesson 7: More Auxiliary Sleights and Review
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Lesson 8: A Few Simple Flourishes
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Lesson 9: Audience Management: "The Open Prediction"
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Lesson 10: Creating a Program
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Lesson 11: Techniques Without Sleights
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Lesson 12: Three More Tricks
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Lesson 13: The History of the Cards and Some Famous Card Conjurors
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Lesson 14: Your Next Step
Over 150 color photos and 85 video clips. You must be connected to the Internet to view these, but you can use all other features off-line.
The course is written in an engaging style and goes far beyond teaching you sleight-of-hand and a few card tricks. Roberto Giobbi, who has been called by Eric Mead "one of our most important and influential contemporary writers and teachers in magic", will take you by the hand and tell you how to practice efficiently even if you have little time, what to do when you meet difficult spectators, how to best communicate with your spectators, how to avoid failure, how to get applause, how to use psychology and the knowledge of human nature in your magic to create true wonderment, and much, much more know-how that will give you a complete understanding of how to entertain with a normal deck of playing cards.
