I thought you all might like to know that we received the following email from Mayron (shared here with permission):
My www.freepianomethod.com website continues to thrive thanks to your generous mentioning of it in your Hacker News. I am receiving emails from all over the world from people who, until now, had no way to learn music or to play the piano. I am 80 years old, and my dream of sharing my piano method, for free, with the world is coming true. Thank you for all you have done!
I just received an email from a music studio in Mongolia; the owner of the studio told me he is now using my extensive free piano method as the only teaching literature in his studio. And several school districts have emailed me that they are conducting "at home" teaching via computer and my piano method for students who are unable to attend school due to Covid lockdowns. You have no idea how happy these emails make me! My piano method is my life's work, and now it will continue to live throughout the world long after I am gone!
Worth mentioning for anyone who happens not to know about it that there's a massive repository of out-of-copyright (either by time or decision of the composer) music scores and recordings for all instruments by a huge number of composers. Using the 'genre' section is useful for finding music of an appropriate level for performers.
They are working to typeset out of copyright works using GNU LilyPond. The scores are particularly beautifully typeset and very easy to read when printed.
If any of you is fluent in Spanish and want to learn to play piano, I can't recommend Jaime altozano enough (he's on YouTube). He's the best music teacher and communicator I've seen in any language, I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math.
He also has some paid courses available in https://www.musihacks.com/ but just the free content is already awesome to understand modes, scales, pregressions, etc
Interesting the course looks good. Long time ago I saw the "Learn & Master" piano courses courses which are really good. As a hobbyist guitar player, learning piano is one of those things that I want to do once I retire and have time.
I just started learning piano in the COVID lockdown. The best and cheapest way to learn is use an app: Simply Piano(android+ios), Piano Marvel(ios), etc and connect it to an el cheapo midi keyboard.
this allows you to spend the next 6 months learning without anyone getting disturbed..while the app gives you realtime feedback about which keys you are pressing.
you wont miss the lack of a teacher...especially during the lockdown.
dont buy an expensive piano. Dont buy books and methods. Learning this way is like playing a game...and arguably much better than Cyberpunk 2077 ;)
Sorry but I have to disagree a lot. An app is not the best way to learn piano. Piano is not just about pressing keys. Does the app correct your position (important if you don't want to get fatigue and cramps), your volume, fingerings, etc? Does it tell you how to practice the parts where you're struggling?
> connect it to an el cheapo midi keyboard
Please don't do that. I mean, if you just want to give it a try to piano and not spend anything, yeah, go ahead, but a small keyboard with non-weighted keys will limit you a lot, even early on. The sound is terrible, you won't be able to control the volume properly, and getting a better technique to play better and faster will be far more difficult. Not to mention that at some point you will try to use the extra keys and if they're are not there you can't do anything. If you want to seriously take up piano, just buy a decent keyboard at the start, you'll end up needing it anyways.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, anything that gets more people into playing music is good. But I think it's also good if people know the advantages and limitations of the method they use to learn, and are able to choose the method that fits their expectations. If you just want to poke your nose into piano playing maybe an app is enough for you, but there are no shortcuts and no magic method.
People can disagree with you all they want about the app. I figured out how to play with both hands at the same time with Simply Piano. To me, that is magical. Also, it's fun.
I am using a M-Audio keyboard, which senses speed and was good to get started, and now I feel proficient enough that I want to buy a digital piano. Looking at Kawai, but can't visit a music store showroom because of COVID lockdown.
Maybe in time I will change my mind, but I think it makes perfect sense to use a basic MIDI keyboard to learn the keys and notes while deciding if it is something enjoyable and worth a substantial financial investment.
Completely agree on the Simply Piano plus MIDI approach. My autistic son is musically inclined, can play piano by ear. We have struggled trying to get him formally trained to read music. Then we found Simply Piano. He's taken to it very well, treating it as a game. This is the only way we have managed to get him to read music. We use it in conjunction with a music teacher via Zoom. Here's a video of him playing https://youtu.be/NEa9X36e7Vo
I tried a few of these apps but I wasn't really learning anything. Eventually, I found pianote.com and I couldn't be more happy - it's worth checking out as another option for online piano learning (they also have drum and guitar programs).
I agree not to buy an expensive piano (or keyboard). While a fully weighted 88-key instrument is definitely ideal, you can get by just fine on a semi, or even el-cheapo, 61-key keyboard.
Does it have like random chords for reading practice? I'd enjoy just getting a single chord or a chord sequence and going through it as quick as possible.
This is fine to get started (it's pretty close to how I got started) but I recommend getting a good teacher and instrument asap, if you're really enjoying yourself. They will help immensely in progression and good habits. After about 5 months with a teacher, I was playing a Chopin piece I wouldn't have dreamed of playing previously.
I love this little sub-thread. I don't know what it is about piano in particular that brings out the nail-biting. You don't seem to get that with guitar for example. What I like is that there's a lot of concern-for-others visible, which is admirable. The place where it strays into misplaced concern though (kind of as usual in life) is where in some cases there's a disproportionate intensity of concern that seems to indicate projection of each writer's own unconscious issues. I will now proceed to probably project my own, but just keep in mind... Why should someone care so much how someone else learns piano or how much piano they learn? And why should the 2nd someone care what the 1st someone thinks in the first place?
Mira, does it sound good, ¿sí o no? That's the only thing you need to ask yourself. If it sounds bad, try harder. (Or don't. Since it's for you and has no meaning except what you bring to it, and since it's near-worthless as a way to pay the bills, you're kind of free to do whatever. Maybe that freedom demotivates some people. That too is fine.)
The argument for a structured approach or formal lessons tends to be that it prevents learning "bad habits." But what's wrong with finding that out for yourself, i.e. finding out that you learned a bad habit by progressing to the point that you notice the habit is bad? And then you either live with it (as many of them will actually be pretty inconsequential) or work to change it.
I can even make a case that unlearning a bad habit is superior in some ways to never developing it. Because first of all, the way you reach "good piano player" status is always by passing through "shitty piano player" status, but secondly, an analogy: The way you mature to the point where you see that, let's say doing drugs (another bad habit for some people) isn't so good for you, is by doing drugs and then quitting, not by "just saying no" from the getgo. What the fuck does a Nancy Reagan type know about drugs? Someone who quits drugs knows all about it. Ah but the additional knowledge takes (or if you think in terms of maximizing piano throughput like some industrial process, it wastes) additional time. If your parents have you convinced that your survival depends on getting early-admitted to Juilliard by age 14, yeah that is gonna hurt you. You can't spare the time to do it "wrong" or even to question whether doing it is bringing you any joy in the first place for that matter. But if you're willing to wait until age 18 for Juilliard, that gives you another 4 years to unlearn the bad habit. Plenty of time. 4 more years of playing piano, which is what you were trying to do in the first place.
Apps can be useful but there is simply no replacement for having an experienced person observe your playing and giving you feedback. A good teacher can pick up on problems early and correct them, saving you hundreds of hours. They can also answer certain types of questions very easily that you might never be able to find via google.
I would add earpeggio and music tutor for iOS (not affiliated, there are other similar apps). It's basically a Duolingo-like way to get used to reading sheet music and ear training respectively, you just put in 5 min a day and in a matter of weeks you're able to read sheet music relatively well.
This will teach you to play keyboard but not piano. There is ALOT more to piano than pressing keys at the right time. It's as nuanced an instrument as the violin, but you don't know that unless you've studied professionally or played on a good instrument
I like this resource because it is anti-workaholic and principled. It also really focuses on developing good habits, which is a huge part of piano. A strategic approach to practice can make it MUCH more efficient.
This sounds like a great resource, am I missing something or are there only two chapters and one is dedicated to piano tuning? Or is this more of a meta resource that tells you where to go to learn something like chord theory etc?
Started learning clarinet in my 30. The internet was full of advice against learning clarinet without a teacher. So I took lessons. It surely helped but it did not feel like a great accelerator. Most gain came from practising almost every day for about three years. After the birth of my daughter I stopped taking lessons because I did no longer have the time to practice and to drive to the teacher's home once a week. I wonder if anyone has experience with online teaching? Commuting to a teacher's place won't fit my schedule anymore. But I wonder whether a teacher can really be helpful via a standard webcam.
I wish piano methods would offer me the choice of genre (jazz, latin, classical, ...) and that they would start with songs that are perhaps technically simple, but still interesting from a musical viewpoint.
Can it get you to Marc Rebillet's [0] level in 5 years of a few hours per day practice? He makes it look so effortless and I can't even begin to imagine the flow state he's experiencing.
I feel like there's two different skill-sets at play--the ability to learn a piece, as printed, and play it back accurately, and then this, which is more improvisational skills. The two skill sets intertwine but mastery of one does not necessarily transfer.
To learn the latter quickly, I find it easiest to build a catalogue of music you like listening to, and then figure out how to transcribe it (by ear) on your piano. Maybe just the most overt melody lines at first, before you can grok chords all that well.
In time, you start building your own internalized library of "licks", little musical gestures that are automatic, and to achieve what Marc is doing, is to just string those gestures together. It sounds musically complex but when you're doing it, it almost feels like cheating, because you're leaning so hard on these "tropes" that you've built up over time.
Long-time self-taught improviser here[0]. 5 years is, I think, a reasonable time frame if you're passionate. My suggestion would be to go through a beginner's course, then as soon as you can start copying and analyzing. Find things like licks and styles and little bits here and there that you like, then try to learn them by ear.
I know the "music is a language" troupe is tired, but it really does help me explain. It's sort of like muscle memory, but with a musical vocabulary.
Look up basic Chord theory, then look around youtube for theory videos on the kind of music you like. After a while, you remove thinking from the equation, and then it gets kinda hard to explain in a comment
Has someone here picked a musical instrument seriously for the first time in their 20s and managed to self learn? If yes, it would be helpful if you could point to resources that were helpful to you and any daily practice schedule you followed?
I have tried learning piano and I found a lot of stuff irritatingly hard to get right and got bored. Like for some reason I am not able to transition to other keys well when I am using both hands or when some finger involuntarily moves because of motion of neighboring finger. Also, I seem to get finger fatigue which is surprising considering the amount of time I spend on keyboards anyway.
On my resume I like to put everyone that plays piano isn't a Beethoven. There is a range between expert and those who don't even play. This is my excuse for being in IT but not well in programming.
If you have a child < 5 years old, I highly recommend teaching them perfect pitch, AKA absolute pitch. In my experience it only took a few hours of note-color association in combination with some stickers on the piano keys for my child to learn absolute pitch at 2 years old, which they have retained for years.
If you want to learn the acoustic instrument-- either upright or grand piano-- pay a teacher to show you how to learn.
There are just so many parts of piano-playing that are counterintuitive. At the same time, if you learn them early and practice a little bit, it's not difficult to develop healthy habits that will make everything you play sound more natural and beautiful.
It's a bit frustrating because at least in the U.S., most people don't do this and just learn how to depress some keys in the right order.
To me, hearing that result is equivalent to walking into someone's house and seeing pictures on the wall where the paint is smeared past the border onto the wall. It's novel the first time, but once you realize everyone's walls are like that you start to feel like you're being set up to eventually burn to death inside a wicker man.
For context, I started playing piano when I was a kid with a mix of classes and self-learn, tried to pick up guitar a few years ago and I'm now learning clarinet with a teacher.
With this experience, I can say that self-learning an instrument is the most inefficient way to learn it, specially if you haven't already learned another instrument before. Don't bother comparing it to self-learning programming because it's a whole different world:
- If you don't know basic music theory (notes, rhythms, basic chords, etc) you'll have a hard time understanding any method or any other resource of any kind. A teacher will usually teach you those concepts as you go along and help you understand them. You can self-learn music theory but it's not the fastest way.
- As a beginner, your ear is not trained to the instrument. If you haven't played an instrument before, your ear won't be trained at all. You will sound bad and you won't know why. Having a teacher hear you and tell you what's going wrong will help you advance faster and also train your ear so you detect those issues.
- Technique. This is one of the things that's the hardest to learn by yourself. You can read books and watch videos and still nothing beats having direct feedback from someone who knows the technique. You might struggle days by yourself for days to play some passage, then your teacher comes along and tells you how to do it in five minutes. And yeah, that teacher will probably make you do boring exercises, but let me tell you something: those exercises are necessary. I didn't do enough exercises when I learned piano, and I feel that lack of technique and agility now. On the other hand, now my clarinet teacher insists on technical exercise along with practicing pieces and those exercises are already paying off, in the sense that I can pick up pieces faster. Technique is necessary, if you don't do it at the beginning you'll hit a wall later on, you'll need to practice technique anyways and it'll be worse because you will have picked up bad habits.
- Repertoire. As a beginner in an instrument, knowing which pieces you can play is really hard. A good teacher will know pieces and will give you pieces that you like, that are up to your level and it a lot of cases they will actually help you improve with certain aspects.
If you are serious about wanting to learn an instrument (as in 'I want to dedicate time and effort to this', not necessarily being professional or anything), the best option is to get a teacher. It's more expensive, of course, but tends to be more rewarding and efficient. Even if you only take a few months of classes when you're starting, it will give you a lot more tools to continue improving than if you were doing it by yourself.
Also, there are no shortcuts. I've seen a lot of people who wanted to learn piano, and instead of starting with the basics they just took a song way above their level and tried to play it. After a year, the song still sounds bad, and they haven't actually learned anything that helps them playing another piece. Playing music is amazing, but be patient and don't be discouraged when it takes time.
That's great advice. I had two piano teachers. One of them made me love going to the lessons and the other made me hate to go there. The latter was first so I quit piano and took a few years break before I found the teacher who gave me inspiration.
If you're not familiar with Piano Gym - We're an independent content creation and learning platform for Piano that uses flash cards and spaced repetition to smooth out all the hard parts of deliberate practice for learning Piano!
One of the biggest issues we've had has been getting teachers to create content for us, but with this kind of open content, that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore!
Come and check out Piano Gym if you're interested! We'd love to have you in the gym with us!
[+] [-] dang|5 years ago|reply
My www.freepianomethod.com website continues to thrive thanks to your generous mentioning of it in your Hacker News. I am receiving emails from all over the world from people who, until now, had no way to learn music or to play the piano. I am 80 years old, and my dream of sharing my piano method, for free, with the world is coming true. Thank you for all you have done!
I just received an email from a music studio in Mongolia; the owner of the studio told me he is now using my extensive free piano method as the only teaching literature in his studio. And several school districts have emailed me that they are conducting "at home" teaching via computer and my piano method for students who are unable to attend school due to Covid lockdowns. You have no idea how happy these emails make me! My piano method is my life's work, and now it will continue to live throughout the world long after I am gone!
--Mayron Cole
[+] [-] vixen99|5 years ago|reply
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Composers https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:View_Genres
Download is free but delayed by 15 seconds unless you pay a small yearly fee.
[+] [-] bananapear|5 years ago|reply
https://www.mutopiaproject.org/
They are working to typeset out of copyright works using GNU LilyPond. The scores are particularly beautifully typeset and very easy to read when printed.
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[+] [-] kace91|5 years ago|reply
He also has some paid courses available in https://www.musihacks.com/ but just the free content is already awesome to understand modes, scales, pregressions, etc
[+] [-] kjsthree|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] markdown|5 years ago|reply
Never heard of that person, but I'm intrigued. Are they better than Sal Khan?
[+] [-] martin_vejmelka|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sandGorgon|5 years ago|reply
this allows you to spend the next 6 months learning without anyone getting disturbed..while the app gives you realtime feedback about which keys you are pressing.
you wont miss the lack of a teacher...especially during the lockdown.
dont buy an expensive piano. Dont buy books and methods. Learning this way is like playing a game...and arguably much better than Cyberpunk 2077 ;)
[+] [-] gjulianm|5 years ago|reply
> connect it to an el cheapo midi keyboard
Please don't do that. I mean, if you just want to give it a try to piano and not spend anything, yeah, go ahead, but a small keyboard with non-weighted keys will limit you a lot, even early on. The sound is terrible, you won't be able to control the volume properly, and getting a better technique to play better and faster will be far more difficult. Not to mention that at some point you will try to use the extra keys and if they're are not there you can't do anything. If you want to seriously take up piano, just buy a decent keyboard at the start, you'll end up needing it anyways.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, anything that gets more people into playing music is good. But I think it's also good if people know the advantages and limitations of the method they use to learn, and are able to choose the method that fits their expectations. If you just want to poke your nose into piano playing maybe an app is enough for you, but there are no shortcuts and no magic method.
[+] [-] dade_|5 years ago|reply
Maybe in time I will change my mind, but I think it makes perfect sense to use a basic MIDI keyboard to learn the keys and notes while deciding if it is something enjoyable and worth a substantial financial investment.
[+] [-] kidproquo|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] lscotte|5 years ago|reply
I agree not to buy an expensive piano (or keyboard). While a fully weighted 88-key instrument is definitely ideal, you can get by just fine on a semi, or even el-cheapo, 61-key keyboard.
[+] [-] knuthsat|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] rdiddly|5 years ago|reply
Mira, does it sound good, ¿sí o no? That's the only thing you need to ask yourself. If it sounds bad, try harder. (Or don't. Since it's for you and has no meaning except what you bring to it, and since it's near-worthless as a way to pay the bills, you're kind of free to do whatever. Maybe that freedom demotivates some people. That too is fine.)
The argument for a structured approach or formal lessons tends to be that it prevents learning "bad habits." But what's wrong with finding that out for yourself, i.e. finding out that you learned a bad habit by progressing to the point that you notice the habit is bad? And then you either live with it (as many of them will actually be pretty inconsequential) or work to change it.
I can even make a case that unlearning a bad habit is superior in some ways to never developing it. Because first of all, the way you reach "good piano player" status is always by passing through "shitty piano player" status, but secondly, an analogy: The way you mature to the point where you see that, let's say doing drugs (another bad habit for some people) isn't so good for you, is by doing drugs and then quitting, not by "just saying no" from the getgo. What the fuck does a Nancy Reagan type know about drugs? Someone who quits drugs knows all about it. Ah but the additional knowledge takes (or if you think in terms of maximizing piano throughput like some industrial process, it wastes) additional time. If your parents have you convinced that your survival depends on getting early-admitted to Juilliard by age 14, yeah that is gonna hurt you. You can't spare the time to do it "wrong" or even to question whether doing it is bringing you any joy in the first place for that matter. But if you're willing to wait until age 18 for Juilliard, that gives you another 4 years to unlearn the bad habit. Plenty of time. 4 more years of playing piano, which is what you were trying to do in the first place.
[+] [-] snvzz|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] kace91|5 years ago|reply
I would add earpeggio and music tutor for iOS (not affiliated, there are other similar apps). It's basically a Duolingo-like way to get used to reading sheet music and ear training respectively, you just put in 5 min a day and in a matter of weeks you're able to read sheet music relatively well.
[+] [-] Brian_K_White|5 years ago|reply
Well who is recommending that real teachers don't matter?
"I just started learning piano..." That's who.
[+] [-] nautilus12|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] rubyn00bie|5 years ago|reply
> to an el cheapo midi keyboard.
El cheapo? You could just have said cheap and not come across as prick.
[+] [-] biophysboy|5 years ago|reply
https://fundamentals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/
I like this resource because it is anti-workaholic and principled. It also really focuses on developing good habits, which is a huge part of piano. A strategic approach to practice can make it MUCH more efficient.
[+] [-] porknubbins|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] ad31mar|5 years ago|reply
[0] https://youtu.be/XMFnkKWXgKw?t=203
[+] [-] evo|5 years ago|reply
To learn the latter quickly, I find it easiest to build a catalogue of music you like listening to, and then figure out how to transcribe it (by ear) on your piano. Maybe just the most overt melody lines at first, before you can grok chords all that well.
In time, you start building your own internalized library of "licks", little musical gestures that are automatic, and to achieve what Marc is doing, is to just string those gestures together. It sounds musically complex but when you're doing it, it almost feels like cheating, because you're leaning so hard on these "tropes" that you've built up over time.
[+] [-] jacquesm|5 years ago|reply
I posted this on HN a while ago but it sank without a trace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBwRfQbXkg
[+] [-] jedimastert|5 years ago|reply
I know the "music is a language" troupe is tired, but it really does help me explain. It's sort of like muscle memory, but with a musical vocabulary.
Look up basic Chord theory, then look around youtube for theory videos on the kind of music you like. After a while, you remove thinking from the equation, and then it gets kinda hard to explain in a comment
[0]: https://youtube.com/user/jedimastert0810
[+] [-] pimlottc|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] actuator|5 years ago|reply
I have tried learning piano and I found a lot of stuff irritatingly hard to get right and got bored. Like for some reason I am not able to transition to other keys well when I am using both hands or when some finger involuntarily moves because of motion of neighboring finger. Also, I seem to get finger fatigue which is surprising considering the amount of time I spend on keyboards anyway.
[+] [-] dghughes|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] kranner|5 years ago|reply
-- attributed to Henry van Dyke
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[+] [-] asimpletune|5 years ago|reply
1. https://youtu.be/hkQOtL6gzX4 (this title might throw you off, but she truly communicates what I mean so well about starting with melody.)
[+] [-] TheOv3rminD|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] jancsika|5 years ago|reply
There are just so many parts of piano-playing that are counterintuitive. At the same time, if you learn them early and practice a little bit, it's not difficult to develop healthy habits that will make everything you play sound more natural and beautiful.
It's a bit frustrating because at least in the U.S., most people don't do this and just learn how to depress some keys in the right order.
To me, hearing that result is equivalent to walking into someone's house and seeing pictures on the wall where the paint is smeared past the border onto the wall. It's novel the first time, but once you realize everyone's walls are like that you start to feel like you're being set up to eventually burn to death inside a wicker man.
[+] [-] gjulianm|5 years ago|reply
With this experience, I can say that self-learning an instrument is the most inefficient way to learn it, specially if you haven't already learned another instrument before. Don't bother comparing it to self-learning programming because it's a whole different world:
- If you don't know basic music theory (notes, rhythms, basic chords, etc) you'll have a hard time understanding any method or any other resource of any kind. A teacher will usually teach you those concepts as you go along and help you understand them. You can self-learn music theory but it's not the fastest way.
- As a beginner, your ear is not trained to the instrument. If you haven't played an instrument before, your ear won't be trained at all. You will sound bad and you won't know why. Having a teacher hear you and tell you what's going wrong will help you advance faster and also train your ear so you detect those issues.
- Technique. This is one of the things that's the hardest to learn by yourself. You can read books and watch videos and still nothing beats having direct feedback from someone who knows the technique. You might struggle days by yourself for days to play some passage, then your teacher comes along and tells you how to do it in five minutes. And yeah, that teacher will probably make you do boring exercises, but let me tell you something: those exercises are necessary. I didn't do enough exercises when I learned piano, and I feel that lack of technique and agility now. On the other hand, now my clarinet teacher insists on technical exercise along with practicing pieces and those exercises are already paying off, in the sense that I can pick up pieces faster. Technique is necessary, if you don't do it at the beginning you'll hit a wall later on, you'll need to practice technique anyways and it'll be worse because you will have picked up bad habits.
- Repertoire. As a beginner in an instrument, knowing which pieces you can play is really hard. A good teacher will know pieces and will give you pieces that you like, that are up to your level and it a lot of cases they will actually help you improve with certain aspects.
If you are serious about wanting to learn an instrument (as in 'I want to dedicate time and effort to this', not necessarily being professional or anything), the best option is to get a teacher. It's more expensive, of course, but tends to be more rewarding and efficient. Even if you only take a few months of classes when you're starting, it will give you a lot more tools to continue improving than if you were doing it by yourself.
Also, there are no shortcuts. I've seen a lot of people who wanted to learn piano, and instead of starting with the basics they just took a song way above their level and tried to play it. After a year, the song still sounds bad, and they haven't actually learned anything that helps them playing another piece. Playing music is amazing, but be patient and don't be discouraged when it takes time.
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[+] [-] PianoGym|5 years ago|reply
We've been looking for content to help bootstrap https://pianogym.com
If you're not familiar with Piano Gym - We're an independent content creation and learning platform for Piano that uses flash cards and spaced repetition to smooth out all the hard parts of deliberate practice for learning Piano!
You can see a beta demo video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmSM4RB1NI
One of the biggest issues we've had has been getting teachers to create content for us, but with this kind of open content, that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore!
Come and check out Piano Gym if you're interested! We'd love to have you in the gym with us!
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