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9780760383704

Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners Impress Your Friends with Simple to Learn Magic that Anyone Can Do

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  • ISBN13:

    9780760383704

  • ISBN10:

    0760383707

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2023-04-04
  • Publisher: New Shoe Press

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Summary

With a little practice and this beginner’s guide, you will quickly be amazing your friends and family with your new sleight-of-hand craft.

Being an accomplished magician definitely takes practice, but it starts with the right instruction. Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners offers just the right level of foundational guidance in easy-to-follow, illustrated, step-by-step instruction. Whether it’s cards, coins, or magic boxes and hats, even the most inexperienced magic enthusiasts will be able to access the insider magic tips and performance advice taught in this book. 

Professional magician Bryan Miles from the world-renowned School of Magic presents:
 
  • A guide to all the tools you will need to do everything from a simple card trick to tricks that use multiple props to execute
  • The practical elements for executing a wide array of tricks, starting with the basics and including fresh takes on traditional tricks
  • Performance skills such as distraction, sleight of hand, storytelling, and pace, which are the key to executing a convincing magic trick

Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners will give you the inspiration you need to create a magic show around every trick you perform. No matter which end of the spectrum your magic aspirations fall in, you will succeed in performing your tricks of choice with panache and leave your audience wondering how you did it.

Always wanted to pull a coin out from behind an ear or pull the queen of hearts from a shuffled deck of 52 cards? This book will teach you what you need to know to be the magician you’ve always wanted to be!

Author Biography

Bryan Miles is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed magician. His mind-blowing shows have taken him from London to New York. He has performed at the prestigious Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. He is featured on TV, radio, magazines, and newspapers regularly. Bryan has studied the mysteries of the human mind through illusion, mentalism, magic, and hypnosis. He is a Silver Medallion graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town and is frequently invited to teach his skills to aspiring magicians. His YouTube channel BryanMilesTV showcases his latest clips in which he demonstrates the incredible power of the human mind. He is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Contents
CHAPTER 1:
The Foundation 
The Hand 
The Deck of Cards 
Mechanic’s Grip and Biddle Grip 
Classic Two-Handed Spread 
Cutting the Cards 
Overhand Shuffle 
Riffle Shuffle 
Hindu Force 
Criss-Cross Force 
Slip Force 
Finger Palm 
Classic Palm 
French Drop 
Bobo Switch 
CHAPTER 2:
Magic in the Classroom 
Magical Pendulums
Color-Changing Pencil 
Perplexing Paper Rings 
Mind Tapped 
Vanishing and Appearing Glue Cap 
Which Hand? 
CHAPTER 3:
Birthday Magic 
Phone-Nomenal Birthday 
Birthday Card for You! 
Impossible Birthday Card Prediction 
Card in Balloon 
Birthday Card Transformation 
Confetti to Candy 
CHAPTER 4:
Restaurant Magic 
Vanishing Sugar 
Penetrating Cork 
Torn and Restored Straw Paper 
Sugar Packet Stab 
Psychic Waiter 
Traveling Olive 
Coin through Napkin 
Vanishing Toothpick 
CHAPTER 5:
Office Magic 
Animated Stickman 
Acrobatic Linking Paper Clips 
Lie for Me 
Card on Fan 
What Is in My Hand? 
Rising Ring on Rubber Band 
Magical Number Prediction 
CHAPTER 6:
Magic at the Bar 
Inexhaustible Match 
Freeze! 
Vanishing Matches 
Keep the Change 
Penetrating Coin through Coaster 
The Traveling Kings 
The World of Magic 
CHAPTER 7:
Street Magic 
Ashes on Arm 
Receipt to Money 
Card on Window 
Coin through Hole 
Obedient Ketchup Packet 
Bending Nail 
CHAPTER 8:
Holiday Magic 
Transporting Napkins 
Torn and Restored Tissue Heart 
Appearing Rose 
Santa’s Production Cone 
Spooky Money 
CHAPTER 9:
Anytime Magic 
Devious Domino 
Dice Divination 
Match through Metal 
Tissue Paper Divination 
Pencil Prediction 
Water to Ice Cubes 
Jumping Rubber Band 
Do as I Do 
Glossary 
Credits 
Index 
About the Author 


 

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