"Ok – so who would like to start playing the piano without the hours of frustration learning music theory? I’m one. That’s exactly what Benedict does in this course. … I’m amazed at what I’ve been able to learn and play." - Greg R "This course walks you through playing simple songs, but they actually sound like the real thing which gave me a sense of accomplishment and encouraged me to keep playing. I highly recommend this course!" - Helenmary Cody This course will teach you good piano technique by getting you to play real pieces of music. In it, I'll show you how to play the following pieces: the riff to John Lennon's "Imagine" - When the Saints - Happy Birthday hands together - Amazing Grace hands together - the opening of Pachelbel's "Canon" - the bass line and chords of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" And at the same time I'll teach you the following fundamentals: which way is up on a piano - good practice technique - the finger numbers - playing in time - the note names - good hand position - how to play "legato" (and what that means) - phrasing - what an "octave" is - coordinating your 2 hands - how to play with a metronome - the right way to play chords So why this beginner piano course instead of any other one? 1) It doesn't teach you how to play the piano by teaching you how to read music first Almost all beginner piano courses teach you how to read music first and then get you to play from a score, but that's backwards - after all, you didn't learn to read before you could speak! Reading music is difficult, and if you try to learn how to play piano while learning how to read music at the same time you'll end up doing both badly. Instead, there's a body of research that shows that getting people to play first and then showing them how to read music is better (the approach is called "Sound before Sign"). This is the approach I use in this course. (I have a separate course which teaches you how to read music, called "Read Music FAST!", which you should do after this one.) 2) I have a ridiculous amount of experience teaching music using videos I've been teaching piano one-on-one for over 10 years, to children and adult beginners as well as industry professionals, and I record practice videos for all of my students. At the time of writing I have over 4,000 private videos on YouTube, and so know exactly how to pace videos so that they're not so fast you can't follow them, but not so slow you get bored and stop either. 3) You'll develop good habits which will save you a ton of time in the future A lot of beginner piano tutorials are designed to get you to play a piece as fast as possible, which is a good aim in itself (mine do the same), but they'll usually teach you bad habits at the same time, which you'll then have to spend a lot of time unlearning in the future. By contrast, I'll get you to play pieces as fast as possible but also make sure that you're developing good habits in the process so that there's no limit to how good you can get.

#10 Hand Coordination - Transfer Chord Technique -  Play Flowing Ballad 9  to a song: He is Lord C Key & Bb Key It’s exciting for me to see my students having so much fun in learning piano!  I am creating this new series of course for my students because they want to learn how to coordinate both hands in a flowing manner. Here's My Secret: Rosa's Unique Transfer Chord Technique - Use 2 Hands to play chords to create new sounds! Our struggles: we have already acquired some very basic skills to play good accompaniment to our songs, but we have reached a plateau that everything we play sounds very similar. we  want to get out of the boring LH arpeggios but cannot because we don’t know how else to play them. we are frustrated trying to figure out how to fit the entire arpeggio into a song. we do not know how to count the arpeggios to make them fit to the melody of the song. we find our LH ballad playing so predictable and boring that they even put us to sleep at times. we feel stuck in a rut and do not know how to spice up our ballad playing. If this is your experience, this new series of “Mastering Fun Piano Techniques” using my Transfer Chord Technique from Left Hand to Right Hand to add new sounds. Piano Tip: Use Transfer Chord to Play Flowing Ballad 9 Fillers! Purpose of this course: 1.  This course is designed to ‘help’ students apply ONE Specific Piano Technique – the Flowing Ballad 9 Transfer Chord Technique to He is Lord. 2.  From my own experience of teaching, I notice that students need to DRILL one technique at a time to their songs so that the technique can become ‘automatic’ in their playing.  The series of video clips are prepared in slow motion and normal tempo so that students can practice, practice, and practice until they feel very comfortable in using the technique easily to songs. 3.  In order that students can come away with confidence in Mastering the Flowing Ballad 9 Transfer Chord Technique , the steps shown are very thorough and systematic in the  video clips and explained clearly in the lectures.  All that is left is for students to have FUN practising them at the piano! This course will give you: 1.  Many great piano tips of how you can turn boring arpeggios into professional sounding ballads. 2. This Flowing Ballad 9 is one that you want to MASTER! You can then apply them easily whenever you want to and it always sounds great. 3. My Secret Piano Tip of using 2 Hands to get out of the boring rut of LH repeated patterns.  Many concert pianists use this kind of techniques and that’s how they ‘flow’ in their piano playing. 4.  Learn how to play the Ballad Flowing 9 in 8th notes. 5. Use the Color chord piano tip to put color tones into your ballad arpeggios playing. 6.  Watch, copy and play, play, play. That’s what this course is about! 7.  With that foundation, you can go and experiment the idea and create your own Ballad 9 with variations! Enroll and I will see you inside, Rosa ************************************* Rosa's Online School: Teaching 93  Courses on Music & Piano Courses! OVER 74,000 Successful students have already taken my online courses since July 2014 with many 5 Star Reviews ************************************* About Rosa's online course at Udemy: Over 74,000 very happy students already in my Udemy classes See the 5 Star Reviews from VERY satisfied students You get free lifetime access All videos are at your finger tips to watch anytime & anywhere All future extra lectures and upgrades are always free Unconditional Udemy 30 day money-back guarantee and that's my personal promise to your success! Join this happy family of students

Wielding the piano opens up a whole new world of creative possibilities. In this foundational course, I teach you how to play piano as a singer/songwriter. It's a unique method that takes somebody with zero musical experience and transforms them into a piano wielding singer/songwriter. This method has been refined over the last 3 years as I've taught more and more artists in New York and Los Angeles. Every lecture builds upon the previous lecture. I walk you through the whole process as efficiently as possible, taking every effort to find ways to cut your learning time in half. Watch the lectures, complete the challenges, and enjoy playing! By the end you should be able to pick a song, adjust the song to most singable key for your voice, and accompany yourself on the piano. You should take this course if you think you'd have fun playing the songs you love and exploring how piano wielding singer/songwriters like Carol King, Alicia Keys, and Ben Folds express themselves on the piano. This is a foundational course for beginners. This course is meant to be an alternative to a traditional piano lesson schedule. If you love playing, writing and singing songs, this course is for you. Hope to see you on the inside! - R Promo Music provided by Ben Sound at Ben Sound Dot Com

Parents are often hesitant to invest in long term tuition and expensive instruments before knowing if their child has the aptitude for music or will enjoy lessons.  This assessment course takes the child and parent through the beginning stages of what is required in order to learn how to play the piano.  If your child can successfully manage this course and enjoys it, then this will give you the positive encouragement to keep going.  You will be able to determine, after working through each section, whether your child has grasped each new concept and is ready to learn the language of music.

Do you love classical music? Do you want to play and enjoy the most famous pieces from the piano repertoire? Would you like to be able to play them like a professional? Do you play Fur Elise by Beethoven but not sure that you are playing it correctly? This course is for you! What it takes to be able to play this pieces beautifully? It is not easy indeed, BUT each piece has key elements that are not a secret but could be kind of hidden for the beginner student. In this course you will be able to understand the core elements of the pianistic interpretation,  according to the style of every piece, this course is dedicated to FÜR ELISE, this beautiful piece from the composer Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN and to TRAUMEREI from the composer Robert SCHUMANN If you are a piano student and has the reading level that is required to play this piece, you will find this course really helpful, through practical videos the instructor will teach you how to play this piece successfully, it is important to mention that this course is not the kind of regular tutorial that teaches you note by note how must be played. On the contrary it is expected that you have the necessary skills to read this piece, why? because you are going to learn about the genre, the stylistic technique that is required and about the musical structure as well. This course will teach you thorugh videos and lectures: The complete performance An analysis of the piece. A listening and reading exercise. Recommendations at the piano for each section or the piece. DO NOT WAIT ANY LONGER!! ENROLL TODAY Ilse Lozoya is going to be your instructor in this course, she is a pianist, music teacher and online educator, she teaches more than 60 courses in Udemy, more than 43 000 students are already taking her courses. She will help you during the course with any question, so you will not be alone in your learning.

Are you a beginner?  Do you know the basics of piano already?  Would you like to impress your friends?  Then, this is the course for you!  You will learn to play to great standards by Scott Joplin- "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag."  Both of these songs are popular and are used in many films (most notably "The Sting").  As with all of my courses, I go step by step, taking you through both hands.  All sheet music is provided!

Course Outline/Description! Video 1: Section goal: basics of technique, rhythm basics of reading music, especially CDEFG, sharps and flats, where everything is located on the piano, give a foundation for reading and being creative at the piano! Topics covered: Basics of technique Black/white keys/high low Treble and bass clef Sharps and flats Keyboard geography – ABCDEFG (repeats) Basics of rhythms – quarter, half note, and whole note Learn C – D -  E – F - G for the right hand Learn CDEFG on paper Video 2: Section goal: Learn Jingle Bells (right hand) and play along! Topics covered: See how “Jingle Bells” is played including an introduction! Look at sheet music to “Jingle Bells” including an introduction See how “Jingle Bells” is played on the piano (another option) – this one is good to play along! Sheet music to “Jingle Bells” (including the introduction) Listen to the “Jingle Bells” play along! Accompaniment track provided to play along and be creative! Play along with “Jingle Bells” if you would like! Kathryn plays “Jingle Bells” Sheet music includes: 7 different ways to play "Jingle Bells" Video 3: Section goal: learn finger exercises and left hand chords C major and G7 Topics covered: Play through RH (right hand) finger exercise Sheet music to RH finger exercise Learning left hand chords C major and G7 Learn left hand chord exercise Sheet music to finger exercises Video 4: Section goal: C major scale for the right hand “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” both hands including chords! Topics covered: C major scale (fingering 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5) Sheet music to C major scale (going up and down) Eighth notes – (takes two eighth notes to equal a quarter note)! "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" including RH scales Sheet music to Twinkle LH (left hand) chords to Twinkle Sheet music to LH chords to Twinkle Piano both hands to Twinkle (looking at the piano or keyboard) Sheet music to both hands (various ways to play the song) Video 5: Section: Tools to improvise, to learn easy chords, and tools to write a song in the key of C! Topics covered: Major chords = sound happy Minor chords = sound sad Learning chords in C major (looking at the piano or keyboard) C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, B dim C major C major – CEG D minor (also written Dm) – DFA E minor (also written Em) – EGB F major – FAC G major – GBD A minor – ACE B diminished (also written Bdim) – BDF How to double a bass in a song! (Use 2 of the same note)! Tools to write a song in C major (C major, F major, and G7) Side note: The key of C means that there are no sharps or flats!

Lessons 1 - 22 Musical Alphabet. Black Note Groups. Finding Notes on the Piano. The Stave. Bar Lines. Treble and Bass Clef. Time Signatures. Note and Rest Time Names. Note and Rest Time Values. Dots and Dotted Notes. Counting the Beat. Right Hand Notes Middle C, D, E, F and G. Left Hand Notes F, G, A, B and Middle C. Note Stems. Fingering and Finger Numbers for Piano. Sitting at the Piano. Finger Number Exercises. Rhythm Exercises. Sight Reading Exercises. Practice Tunes. Video Demonstrations. Audio Files. Lesson 20 is a revision of Lessons 1 to 19 covering the musical alphabet and notes on the piano. The stave, clefs and bar lines. Time signatures. Note and rest time names and time values. Notes on the stave. Playing with two hands at the piano Playing with two hands together

Have you always wanted to learn to play the piano? Have you tried traditional piano lessons before but couldn't stick with them? Are you ready to FINALLY cross playing the piano off your bucket list? If you said YES to either of these questions, this course is for you. My course is designed to rekindle the piano player in you and help get you started playing quickly with an easier methodology than is used in traditional lessons.  I designed my methodology to help you learn how to play the piano quickly with a few tricks. My course is NOT designed for those individuals looking to learn/ play traditional music. I don't focus you to learn the chords and scales but help you get started playing a song right away. Are you still considering playing the piano? Consider these added benefits from learning to play: Powerful Purpose - Whether it's for your life or the next generations, learning to play the piano can instill within you a purpose and drive like nothing else. Strong Mind - Making the piano a part of your daily life has proven to fight off the adverse effects of aging, depression, and even Alzheimer's! Health Body - Reduces blood pressure, betters your coordination, stave off arthritis - just some of the many ways the piano can help keep you happy and health. Refresh Spirit - When you sit down and play the piano, it can transport you away from the trials and tribulations of the day like few things can.

Have you always wanted to play the piano, but were not sure if you want to fully commit to private lessons or an expensive course? If so this course is for you! I wanted to create a very basic course for a complete beginner. This course does simply one thing - demystifies the keyboard. If you look at a piano and think, "this is too complicated to learn", this course will hopefully dispel those thoughts. The piano is much more logical and easier to understand than most people think. I will teach you... How to purchase your first keyboard (amongst the many, many, many keyboards that are out there) The 12 unique notes that make the 88 keys of the piano easy to memorize How the piano is spaced out How the piano relates to other instruments How the piano relates to singers By the end of this course the piano itself, will make a lot more sense!