Pianoforall - Incredible New Way To Learn Piano & Keyboard

Here's the link to that ad learn piano in 3 weeks

I'd recommend enrolling in this course https://www.udemy.com/course/pianoforall-incredible-new-way-to-learn-piano-keyboard/

200k student and highly acclaimed. Music production is not cheap and you will probably bleed money for a good time but you should be proud of yourself for earning that money and working on your dream :)

I grabbed this one yesterday for $9.99

I did this one. If you google for coupons, you can get the course even cheaper. If you do the entire course, you will learn all the fundamentals. After that it is just practice. https://www.udemy.com/course/pianoforall-incredible-new-way-to-learn-piano-keyboard/

I've been using mostly pianoforall to learn how to play. It's a course that consists of both text books and video examples to make it easy to follow along. You can usually find it for cheap here. I occasionally also look up tutorials on youtube if I want to learn a specific song.

If you already have some background, I'd encourage you to try this course:

https://www.udemy.com/course/pianoforall-incredible-new-way-to-learn-piano-keyboard/

I am a guitarist and singer and I wanted to learn piano to break up my guitar-centric view of music. I tried a number of method books and video-based courses. Nothing I found had the right mix of getting playing and avoiding the "you must memorize XYZ completely before going further"

Robin's course was an incredible find for me. He makes it easy to make progress and learn. It was a great bootstrap for me. Top it off, it's really inexpensive and I think that it's still on sale right now. Either way, it comes up on sale pretty frequently. Even if you pay full price for it, I think it's worth every penny! I've spent a lot more for not as much value.

/kengon

Timeline of expectations?

I'm brand new to music and I just bought a digital piano 2 weeks ago (Roland FP-30) . I always wanted to learn but never had the time, now I'm stuck inside and all of my existing hobbies were outdoor things. Enter my new piano hobby.

At first I signed up for an online course that a lot of people said would get you playing and reading piano faster than other methods. I've learned a good bit but the instructor is big on "don't ask why, just memorize it." I've always been a very detailed oriented person who has to know why so I'm thinking now that attempting any shortcuts were a mistake. I've ordered Alfred's basic adult course book 1 after seeing several recommendations on here that it's the best self-taught way to go (once this whole mess is over I plan on taking in-person lessons).

I see lots of posts on here about people who just started X time ago and they seem to be all over the place. I realize that this is incredibly difficult and will take time, but what would realistic expectations be for progress for someone just starting out in their 30s? I'm planning on spending 1 hour per week day towards this then closer to 3 hours per day on the weekends. Is there a standard for measuring progress? I just want to know how to track my progress and see how it's changing.

I started playing the piano for about 20 mins a day since January. Somedays I find it refreshing and other days it's a chore. But if you want to learn you need to put in the time. I am now at the point I can play some fun songs and have gone beyond my expectations in such a short time. I tried books and lessons in the past, but for me, I found the online apps that are out there now are amazing. I found them very helpful and fit my learning style.

https://yousician.com/piano - what I am using

Udemy.com

Lots of a great iphone apps out there too!

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Good luck!

A couple other Youtube channels to check out:

• Piano Dojo
• Andrew Furmanczyk
• PianoTV

If you're okay with going off Youtube and paying a tiny bit, PianoForAll is pretty good and available on Udemy (just make sure you get it on sale, they usually go down as low as $10-13 on a regular basis).

I hear Pianote is good hybrid between live training and prerecorded lessons but I never tested. Stay away from paid apps like Flowkey or Simply Piano. They give you fast results but also plenty of long lasting mistakes.

I am learning piano from these courses:

How to play Piano a very dry but precise piano lessons. Next best thing to a personal piano teacher.

Piano For All is a light approach to learn Piano.

Piano For Life with Piano For Quitters best overview of Piano in general.

My advice: Learn it ultra slowly. One note and bar at time.

Happy learning.

I can suggest two good online courses for you - one requires you to have a notebook/tablet before you while you are practicing, with another one you can just watch videos and print out sheet music:

First one is PianoMarvel, pianomarvel.com, really good software that will get you through fundamentals without overloading you, can't recommend it enough, material quality here is top notch;

And another one is PianoForAll on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/pianoforall-incredible-new-way-to-learn-piano-keyboard/ - this one is good too, though it won't get you to the level that Pianomarvel can.

Yes, both are paid, but worth it, and they cost much less than you would pay for a piano teacher.

As for YouTube piano course - I recommend this one, it has everything beginner needs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphWgqbF-AM&list=PL253192EED47525A8

Also, I recommend checking out this little playlist about four pillars of piano technique, they may be a bit of reach for a total beginner, but I think it's something to keep in mind as you progress: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL753730BB176690A0