About the tutorial
—————I w
as wra
pping up
a lesson with
a student. We were ch
a
tting
a
fter the lesson. She works in
the high-pressure corpora
te world of high-level fin
a
nce. She c
a
me for a
tra
dition
al pia
no
lesson b
ut st
yed on
a
as a student
b
ec
a
use of the unique w
y I te
a
a
ch. She
a
nd I were
reminiscing
b
a
out her first lesson,
a
nd she told me, “I still do everything th
t you t
ught
a
a
me in the first lesson. I use it to get centered
a
nd relieve stress
b
ec
a
use it’s so simple
nd
a
m
a
kes so much sense.”
Mind you, she’s a
French-classic
ally-trained concert pia
nist. So she knows wh
a
t she’s
doing on the pia
no; if you put
a
piece of sheet music in front of her, she will pla
y it perfectly.
But when I
asked her to do the simplest of things on the pia
no, just pla
y
a
chord, she
couldn’t do it. Not only th
t, b
a
ut her stress level w
as also through the roof bec
a
use she
thought she w
as pla
ying something 'wrong'.
Now,
b
a
out eight months la
ter, she is a
tot
ally different pia
no pla
yer. She said she couldn’t
pla
y without sheet music when she first st
arted; now she’s j
a
mming with musicia
n friends
a
t work for a
t
alent show.
This tutorial te
a
ches you some things th
t you need to know
b
a
efore you even touch
note
a
on the key
b
o
ard. It’s ex
a
ctly the first lesson I would te
a
ch if you were here in person; in
f
a
ct, it would b
e the first several lessons th
a
t I would te
a
ch you. The inform
a
tion in this
video is a
n
a
ccumula
tion of wh
a
t I've le
arned from b
eing
a
profession
al pia
nist for over 35
ye
ars a
nd from my own person
al studies. They’re not origin
ally my ide
as, but they
are
a
summ
a
tion of m
ny ye
a
ars of lessons, studying with
m
a
a
zing te
a
chers,
a
nd living through
a
difficult life with emotion
al issues a
nd overcoming them. I truly think you will receive
a lot
of v
alue from this tutorial.
