Online Piano

So, you want to learn the piano. But you don’t want to spend years learning how to read music.

That’s understandable. Learning piano doesn’t have to be the hard chore so many believe it to be. In fact, it can be quite easy IF YOU START BY LEARNING CHORDS!

For example, in the lesson “Reflections in Water,” available below, we have four chords and a scale to create music with. We don’t need to read music and we don’t need piano tabs either. All we need is to learn how to finger one chord position and play the C Major scale. Then we can use these materials to create music with.

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You want to learn piano and play it now, but you don’t want to spend years at it. Understandable. You’re going to love this. It’s something called the ostinato technique and with it you’ll be able to improvise and create your own unique piano music right away!

An ostinato simply means repeating pattern. It’s used in all types of music and is perfectly suited for the piano. Why? Because it’s easy to create with! For example, let’s look at one of my free piano lessons, “Winter Scene.”

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Have you ever seen someone playing piano without sheet music and wonder “how are they doing that?”

It’s like magic to the uninitiated. They think this person must have years and years of piano lessons under their belt. And while some pianists do have years of classical training it doesn’t mean a thing!

That’s right. In fact, taking classical piano lessons can actually hinder your ability to just sit down and freely improvise. No, what most improvising pianists know is how to use chords. Chords and knowledge of the scale the chords came from is all that is needed to make music at the piano.

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In this piano lesson you will learn to play Mary Had A Little Lamb without the use of sheet music. We will be a little bit professional and use both hands!

As you probably know Mary Had A Little Lamb is a popular nursery rhyme. Here is the first verse:

Mary had a little lamb
little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
its fleece was white as snow

In When testing his invention of the phonograph in 1877 Thomas Edison used this poem and it became the first audio recording to be successfully made and played back.

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So many piano students wonder how they can improvise. They just don’t understand how someone can sit down at the piano and play off the top of their head. What they don’t know is that there is some method or system behind the pianist’s approach. One of the best methods is to just pick a few chords from a Key and play.

For example, imagine you’re sitting down at your piano and you just want to play what you feel. What do you do? For starters, you could place your fingers on the first chord that calls out to you. Perhaps a minor chord is what you feel like playing. Or maybe you’re in a Major mood. The key is to

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