Learn How to Play the Piano, from Newbie to Virtuoso, in 80 days or less

Have you ever wanted to play your favorite tunes on the piano? Do you want to be the life of every party while your friends and family sing with you in amazement? If you are ready for people to start thinking you are cool, fun and sexy, then learning piano may be for you. We share all the astonishingly simple secrets to learning how to play the piano – in less than 80 days! Master Pianist Andrew F. shows you everything step-by-step: no fuss, no confusion!

1. Very basics of piano, finger numbers, names of keys, C major scale, finger tuck, (song) Twinkle little star.
2. Whole tones & Semi tones, Major scale TTSTTTS, Sharps and Flats, G major scale, Definition of Octave, Intervals.
3. Triads, Inversions, Tonic and Dominate, 4 note Chords, Solid and Broken Chords, D major, A little extra talking about Sharps and Flats.
4. Subjects covered: Note Values, Time Signatures, Basic Clapping + exercises.
5. Clefs, Staff, Reading sheet music, Intro to ledger lines.
6. Sheet music: Intervals, Sharps, Flats, Naturals, Dynamics, Musical Italian Terms, Staccato, Legato, Ties
7. How the Piano Works, Showing my grand piano opened up and explaining the parts and what they do. This includes, soundboard, pin block, cast iron frame, action, dampers, and more.
8. Minor scales, The rules for : Natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, and the explanation of where they come from.
9. Key signatures,  How to draw a circle of fifths.
10. Chromatic scale, Blues scale, Hands together scales, Penta tonic scale, Contrary motion.
11. How to learn songs, for any instrument, this should increase the speed at which you learn songs, or at least help you understand the steps.
12. An awesome super helpful Chromatic chord learning exercise!
13. How to transpose. To move a melody up or down.   Stem direction, how to know which way the stems go.
14. Time signatures, rests, clapping, strong and weak beats, duple & compound time. Mostly rhythmic topics.
15. Scale degrees, and their functions. Dominate function chords, chord symbols, Intro to Harmony.
16. Using your ear to recognize intervals. Hear the intervals in your head. This should help you play by ear.
17. Relaxing Your Physical Posture, the correct way to sit at the piano, and get the most of your motions into the piano. (Important lesson)
18. The mental approach to playing piano well. This lesson should help you relax your mind and give you much better results. (Super important lesson)
19. Rules for good Sight reading.
20. Intermediate-advanced, rhythm, clapping and exercises.  Adds, triplet, doted notes, and more.
21. Arpeggios, Octaves, how to play them.
22. Trills, mordents, turns, and ornamentation. Basically those quick little notes and squiggly lines you see in your sheets.
23. Expressing emotion into your playing.
24. Lesson on Metronome. Learning how to use it to keep your playing steady.
25. General Overview of Music history. Know how we got to where we are in music! This helps for playing stylistically correct.
26. Polyrhythms. Learn how to play 3 vs 2  & 3 vs 4.
27. Cadences, Perfect, Plagal, Imperfect, Deceptive. It’s like musical punctuation! Also, you get to hear how they sound.
28. Modulation, and applied dominate chords. Learning to shift keys in your compositions.
29. How to play Fur Elise (easy part) tutorial.
30. Harmony 101.  Intro to harmony! Voice leading, choral writing.
31. Structural Analyisis. learning Binary form, Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Rounded Binary, and Ternary Form. Great for learning how your pieces are built.
32. Playing leaps across the keyboard. With and without looking. This should help you play without stopping and looking as much.
33. Alberti Bass pattern. a LH broken pattern to play chords, popular in most music.
34. Hanon, a finger centric exercise book, used to strengthen the fingers and make them much stronger and faster! This lesson should give you things to practice to help you improve your technique.
35. More advanced scales, scales in 3rds, 6ths, formula patterns, poly-rhythm scales, repeated note scales.
36. How to perform for an audience. Mental techniques, physical techniques, and preparation.
37. Teach your kids how to play piano. Techniques to teach your kids what you know about piano. Idea’s how to interest your kids in piano, motivate them, and even games to play with them!
38. Rolled Chords, this covers where you’d use them, how to play them, etc.
39. Pedaling, reasons for pedaling, what we use it for. Demonstration of with vs without pedal. Different techniques.
40. How to learn piano online. This lesson is for motivation and direction to self teach yourself piano. (If you ask me this lesson should be at the very beginning! I didn’t think of doing it until the end though!)

Learn from the comfort of your own home and start by playing like a pro with this video course.