STOP Learning Piano the Wrong Way
What if everything you've been told about learning piano is backwards? Experience music in your body first, then watch theory become effortless.
What if everything you've been told about learning piano is backwards?
Traditional Piano Lessons
- Force you to memorize theory first
- Read notation before feeling music
- Weekly lessons that don't stick
- 90% of students quit within a year
The Piano Wellness Project™
- Feel music in your body first
- Experience before theory
- Immersive learning approach
- Mental health and wellness focused
Imagine This Scenario:
You want to learn to drive, so someone hands you textbooks on combustion engines, aerodynamics, gear ratios, and the history of road engineering. Sounds ridiculous, right?
Yet that's exactly how traditional piano lessons work.
There's a Better Way
After 5 decades at the piano—35 years as a professional touring musician, recording with Grammy-winning artists—I discovered something revolutionary:
Mental Health Refuge
Piano becomes your sanctuary for healing trauma, depression, and anxiety
Experience Before Theory
Feel music in your body first, just like learning to drive by actually driving
The Three Branches System™
Create beautiful music from day one using our revolutionary 3-branch methodology
Mentorship & Stories
Learn through relationships and oral tradition, not sterile curriculum
You Only Need
Fundamental Branches to Create Music
That's it. Just three.
About The Three Branches System™
Understanding the natural patterns that make music universal and accessible to everyone
Tension & Release
Simply put, music is about tension and release. The name for that in music is called a cadence. If you've ever sung the words "amen," you've used cadence.
Composers learn which tones create tension and which tones release that tension, as well as other ways to manipulate the tension and release cycle. Sometimes delaying the release (in music terms, called a suspension) builds the tension and then misdirects the release.
Cycles & Patterns
There are cycles, patterns, and orderings that create music. In music that's often referred to as the cycle of fifths or fourths.
The 24 hours in a day, the 12 months of the year (which correlate to the 12 keys of music), the seven notes that make up a scale (which correlate to the days of the week), and the Trinity number three, which is what makes up the basic vehicle of music, the triad chord.
Sound & Emotion
Sound and vibration stimulate our brains to create emotions. This is why music moves us so deeply—it's a direct pathway to our emotional centers.
We exist in rhythm. Think of your heartbeat—that's the first sound we hear as we're developing in the womb, the steady rhythm of a heartbeat. So when people say, "I can't keep a beat to save my life, I'm not musical," I laugh inside because I know how untrue that is.
Music is Everywhere
This pattern is found everywhere. Think of a wave crashing on the shore—there's a buildup of the wave, the cresting, and then the crashing of the wave, and then the receding of the water to build up the next wave. Music works the same way.
There are other patterns and cycles. Think of day and night, sleeping and waking, the seasons—spring, summer, winter, fall—and it repeats. There are examples everywhere. Music occurs everywhere.
Most African cultures consider dancing as simple as walking. Music is innate in our lives. And in our process to understand, we mostly overcomplicate and confuse.
The Three Branches System™ Simplifies Everything
Instead of overwhelming you with complex theory, we work with these natural patterns that already exist in your body and mind. You don't need to learn music—you need to remember it.
Learn from 5 Decades of Experience
35 Years Professional Musician
Touring the world, recording with famous vocalists in legendary studios
Mentored by Legends
Studied with musicians who worked alongside John Coltrane and Grammy-winning Nile Rodgers
Cognitive Psychology Background
Understanding how the brain actually learns music, not just traditional methods
Personal Transformation
Piano was my mental health refuge through trauma, depression, and anxiety
"Can I Put an 11?"
That's what over 400 jazz pianists said when asked to rate (1-10) how important piano was to their mental health growing up.
"Can I put an 11? Piano saved my mental health growing up."
"I never thought I could improvise until I learned The Three Branches System."
"This approach made music feel natural, not like work."
The Truth About Western Music
Every song you've ever loved—from Bach to the Beatles, from jazz to rock, salsa to country—follows the same simple patterns using three-note chords called triads.
If you can follow a recipe, you can create music.
No need to study years of theory. No need for perfect technique. No need to read music first. Just pure, joyful creation from day one.
Ready to Experience Music the Way It Was Meant to Be Learned?
Stop struggling with outdated methods that drain the joy from music.
Join the Piano Wellness Project and discover:
How to improvise beautiful music in your first session
The Three Branches System™ that unlocks all of Western music
A wellness-centered approach that heals while you learn
Mentorship from a professional with 5 decades of experience
Your piano journey should feel like coming home, not going to work.
"It's so much easier than you think."