Quick Piano
Quick Piano is the world's fastest method for learning to play the piano at home — and it's perfect for homeschool families. Using a unique fast-chord approach and picture-based learning, students of all ages (including 3-year-olds!) can play recognizable music after their very first lesson. No expensive piano tutor. No driving to lessons. Just results.
We have sold this piano lesson book at educational conventions nationally since 1992. It is the only piano course taught entirely by pictures — each of four piano-playing skills is mastered separately using rapidly flashing pictures, powerful memory hooks, and nifty musical tricks until it becomes automatic. Because the total task is splintered into easy smaller skills, the brain is never overwhelmed.
What You Will Learn
- Identify where all the notes live on the keyboard
- Play 24 major and minor chords
- Actually read music (both clefs — treble and bass)
- Conquer basic rhythms
When the skills are finally put together — presto! — you can play. You'll sound like Beethoven to yourself after your first lesson, using your first chord!
What Makes Quick Piano Unique
- Spaced repetition: Five-minute lessons, several times a day — away with hour-long drudgery!
- Right-brain learning: Uses the picture side of the brain, not just the left side or just the tactile (as the Suzuki method does). Children learn to read music immediately.
- Splintered skills: Each skill is learned separately. When you put them together, all the brain has to do is jump the synapses between already-acquired skills.
What's Included
Plus, a huge bonus at no extra charge: this course includes 28 songs with sheet music showing melody notes and corresponding chords — that alone more than pays for the cost of the whole book!
Includes an audio CD (additional copies or MP3 versions available) to talk you through the course (51 minutes; 35 tracks). You can play along with all the songs in the book. See a sample of All through the Night (Old Welsh Air, Sir Harold Boulton, 1884) as a free downloadable sheet music file.
Don't have a way to play an audio CD? No problem. Choose the electronic audio files option, or email us right after placing your order and ask us to send the MP3 files instead — no extra charge.
Save 10% — Bundle Your Book + Audio
Two steps to automatically save 10%: (1) select your book variant (glued or spiral bound) and (2) select one of the audio variants (audio CD or downloadable MP3 files). With this piano course, you MUST have the audio to talk you through it. Bonus: after ordering the audio CD, you may also download all 35 MP3 audio tracks (total file size ~47MB).
You will have all this for the price of one piano lesson.
What a deal: Save $14 when you buy both of our keyboarding courses (piano and typing) in the same order.
Instructional demonstration video: For just $0.99 you can select the option here for a downloadable 54-minute MP4 vintage video produced in 1994. Watch Renée teaching the entire Quick Piano beginner's program, demonstrated with a 3-year-old student. If a little tyke could do it, so can you!
Watch Renee on Quick Piano
Hear Renee describe the Quick Piano method and see it in action — including a beautiful example of what students can play.
- A Kind Redeemer Lives — a song played using the Quick Piano method
- 3 Steps to Teach Your Child Any Skill — Renee explains the splintered-skills approach behind Quick Piano (and Zoom-Type)
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