Over forty million piano quitters have been produced by a phenomenon of the 20th Century. When piano teachers stopped teaching harmony, the vast majority of students quit long before they learned how to play. For more detail on the history, read the article Confessions of a Piano Quitter.
The Piano for Quitters video / DVD is designed for all beginners as well as everyone who wants a practical understanding of chords and harmony that will enable them to play both with and without music notation. The 10 lessons in Piano for Quitters contain some of the best chord progressions we have developed over the last 30 years. These chord sequences can also be played at advanced levels but are not repeated in the three volume sequel. Whether you have had piano lessons for many years or no piano lessons at all, we highly recommend Piano for Quitters as a practical foundation for the entire series of lessons.
The foundation volume Piano for Quitters covers:
- The simple building blocks of all chords and harmony -- without technical terms -- real chords and real chord symbols, not simplified substitutes. Understand how to play the piano based on a practical analysis of music itself.
- Chords placed in musical families -- ten chord progressions which you will be using for the rest of your life.
- Step by step development of what pianists do with this information on a practical level. Various options are demonstrated that improve left-hand, right-hand and hands-together playing.
The Piano for Life three volume sequel:
- Develops all of the concepts in Piano for Quitters to a more advanced level with all new material. (The strategy and approach used in Piano for Quitters is quickly reviewed for those who have not seen it.)
- Teaches how to read music notation by first explaining the actual layout of the notation system.
- Gives the best exercises ever developed by the greatest concert pianists in history -- which give everyone, no matter what your level of playing, insight into how to develop physical skills efficiently.
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