The Best Piano Lesson Packages!
Choose from the best. The Internet has made it easy to get quality piano instruction at a reasonable price. Video on the Web has made it even easier. But don't be thinking that just because the instruction is easy to get that YOU don't have to work to learn to play. There's a bunch of silly piano packages out there just waiting to take your money - and telling you that you'll be playing like a pro in 2 days...or something like that...Don't be fooled!
The products shown here are all serious well-done teaching tools that can take you a long way toward learning to play the piano. The right product for you depends on how much you're ready to spend. For bang for the buck, Rocket Piano can't be beat. It's the least expensive of the three products reviewed here, and you get a lot for a little money with Rocket Piano. Read more details below.
If you are fully committed to learning to play and can afford to spend a little more, then Learn and Master is likely the product for you. There's more material, and you have access to a site where you can get some help too. The course covers a whole range of playing styles including: rock, classical, ragtime, blues, and much more. Read more below...
Sincererly,
Pete
- Instant Download
- Very Affordable
- Great for Beginners
- Tons of Bonuses
- Scales, Staffs, Intervals
- Guaranteed
Rocket Piano is a very professionally done piano lesson package. It includes a number of ebooks, audio tracks, and video tracks to support the instructional material. In addition, there's a ton of extras, all extremely well-done, and described below. The product is simple to download, and is perfectly paced for the introductory piano student. It runs on Windows and Macs, so it doesn't matter what kind of computer you have. In a word, if you want to learn to play, you'd be nuts to pass on this.
Rocket Piano provides all the basic information you'll need to get started in the right direction. It has the most complete description of how to sit at the piano that I've come across so far. You get the idea very easily from the included diagram that shows the proper position for your head, back, arms, and legs. Pay attention students! There's nothing worse than seeing a beginning player struggling because of a slouch or being too high or too low in relation to the keyboard. The package continues with an explanation of proper hand position, and dispels the popular myth that you need very long fingers to play...
(5 Stars)- Instant Download
- Printed Materials
- Play Along CDs
- Online Support
- Video Demonstration
- Professional Instruction
Learn and Master Piano covers everything from the very basics through the most advanced techniques. It includes 14 DVDs with lessons that take you step by step through the facts and concepts you need to master the piano. The course includes play along CDs that are mixed both with and without the piano parts, so as you progress you can play the piano parts yourself.
And if you get stuck, there's an online website where you can go to get your questions answered.The course covers a whole range of playing styles including: rock, classical, ragtime, blues, and much more.
Here's a short list of some of the topics covered:
- The Layout of the Keyboard
- Good Practice Habits
- Playing Chords and Melodies in the First 2 Sessions
- Major & Minor Chords
- Reading Music & Chord Charts
- Major, Minor, Pentatonic & Blues Scales
- Tips to Piano Accompanying
- Learning Chords by Numbers & Chord Shapes
- Learning Chord Progressions & Melodies by Ear
- Chord Inversions
- Reading Rhythms & Syncopation
- Keys & Key Signatures
- Playing on the Black Keys
- Reading Sharps & Flats
- Connecting Chords in Chord Progressions
- Left Hand Accompaniment
Here's what one student said... "The course is outstanding. I have tried and tried, but I cannot come up with a single way you could improve this course, other than to offer a Learn & Master Piano Part II! Will is an awesome teacher - he is easy to understand and he hits on so many important elements of learning to play the piano while also making it a lot of fun! I was thrilled to see Suzy Bogguss singing "Someone to Watch Over Me" as I personally am a huge fan! It is evident how much time and attention to detail went into producing this course, and how much Will's students' needs are considered, and I for one am very impressed!
(4.5 Stars)- Basic Chords
- Basic Blues Rhythms
- Advanced Chords
- Classical Sight Reading
- How To Practice
- Extra Resources
Piano For All takes a non-traditional approach to teaching you how to play. It starts with showing you how to play basic rhythms with basic chords so you can be playing your favorite songs in a prety short time. No Bach or Mozart here to start with anyway. Think about playing your favorite Elton John or Beatles song on the piano. The first section includes 15 separate videos and 101 separate audio tracks to show you how. Very cool.
Piano For All is broken down into 10 separate "books" that each cover a different topic. Book 3, for example, teaches you more about chords and some of the tricks you need to know to play chords at song speed - called inversions - which are just different ways of playing a given shord that makes switching from one chord to another faster and easier. Good stuff. The quicker you learn to play you rchords the happier you'll be. When you get to the order page you'll see that you can even buy the books separately - so even if you have only a couple of bucks to invest, you can still get started with this package.
Book 6 gets you started with some jazz basics like blues scales and some standard riffs and runs that you 'll add to as you progress. Book 7 introduces some improvisation techniques and more blues tricks to beef up the introduction you got in Book 6.
And the classics aren't forgotten in this package either. After you've gotten some solid rhythm and chord experience under your belt, Book 8 shows you how to read music (at this point - it pretty easy for you.) Once you can read sheet music a whole world of new music is opened up to and you can play anything that's printed. I spend hours myself just paging through classical collections and slowly picking out the right hand to explore the piece.
(4 Stars)