PlayPianoFluently
A radical approach to learning piano & keyboard skills
Practice and learning materials to develop musicianship skills to foster powerful piano and keyboard skills such as improvisation, playing by ear and fluent sight-reading
Play Piano Fluently offers practices for developing rhythmic and tonal musicianship
Conventional approaches to learning piano leave huge deficits in practical musicianship, sight-reading and aural skills. Most courses that try to address this are densely theory-driven making them unapproachable for most people. Playpianofluently.com uses a much simpler model of how musical language works than conventional theory. This simple model of rhythm cells in the groove structure and tonal blocks in the keyboard map builds on our natural musicianship yet it is a solid training system for developing better rhythmic and tonal understanding and skill for pianists.
MASTERY OF MIND AND BEGINNER MIND
In many ways, the skill of focus and letting go at the heart of this training is more meditative than cognitive - and this can be challenging for some people. If you are a beginner, it can be a great place to start, providing an initial grounding that nurtures deeper musical understanding than conventional piano methods. More experienced musicians will need to adopt a playful, childlike, beginner's mindset to discover the deep simplicity at the core of musical language that can reawaken their original motivation for making music in the first place.
Playful, meditative training - express yourself, don't impress yourself
or anyone else
Complete fluency in the language of music is difficult to achieve for most people. That's because our formative experience of music generates mimetic or passive decoding skills that establish themselves very deeply in our brains and are difficult to give up. So the task of becoming a consummate fluent musician requires a very rigorous approach to this training, which is possible if you possess the necessary dedication and I offer 121 coaching to help people with this. However, the rhythmic and tonal musicianship skills that this course develops will enhance your ability to create and perform music with deeper understanding and freedom even if total fluency is not achieved, whilst your aural, keyboard harmony and sight-reading skills will be greatly improved.
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