Piano In 21 DaysReviews of pianoin21days.com

As someone who has tried learning the piano in the past without much satisfaction, I found that this course gave me the thing I needed most: a way to quickly get to a point where I can play along with popular music and enjoy it. The creator of the course admits that he is not himself a great piano player, but he knows how to get a good sound out of the piano and to "fake" being musical. I'm not using the word "fake" to imply anything negative. My father was a professional musician and a very good one. In addition to his main job (playing in show bands in Las Vegas), he also had a small band that would perform at church and high school dances. The kids who came to the dances always wanted the band to play the currently popular songs, so the musicians relied on what were then called "fake books" -- collections of hundreds of popular songs that provided the chords, lyrics and melody. The musicians in my dad's band didn't need full sheet music with every note written out. If they had just the chords and melody, they could "fake" the rest and make it sound good. It turns out that you don't even need the skill level of a professional musician to do this. The Piano in 21 Days course teaches you how to find chords, add some variety with (very simple) improvisation techniques, and quickly learn to play popular songs. Obviously this level of playing won't turn you into a concert pianist, but it gets you pretty quickly to the point where you can have fun with it and sound good. The title of the course suggests that you can get through it all in 21 days, but not everyone does that. I've actually spent more than two months on it so far, because I'm trying to extract as much learning as I can from each lesson. After the first few lessons, each day includes a popular song that you're supposed to learn: songs by Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, the Beatles, John Legend, etc. I might be able to whip through some of these songs at a rate of one per day, but I find myself wanting to spend more time than that on each one so I can try to emulate the rhythm and phrasing of the original song as closely as possible. In the process, I'm listening more closely than I have in the past to songs, which in turn gives me a greater appreciation of the music (and also reminds me of how much more there is to learn).

A fun and fast way to learn to play songs on piano

It is good way of learning piano but nobody ca expect to learn to play in 21 days

Excellent teacher, but he goes a little too fast for me.

Im only half way through but a perfect piano book for beginners..high recommend!! You really do learn alot in a short period of time Cheers

Should be 5 but found it just did not work with me. Probably I'm just to old

Jacques was understanding of the frustrations of traditional methods of piano training and gives helpful tips on learning procedures via Google

It's a very good course and Jaques is always approachable. Like anything though it requires a lot of practice to become proficient. Is it doable in 21 days? I would say, in my opinion, if you practice day in day out I guess it is possible. For me however, no way given my current lifestyle. The beauty though is that lifetime access makes it much easier to progress at the pace you want to or able to, especially when life gets in the way of practicing. I'm only on day 5/6 though, but I'm happy so far. (I'll bump up once I get further into the course and see how I progress.) It's a good feeling knowing I got the support of someone who wants me to succeed. I was super impressed by the level of personal contact that Jaques made considering I live in another country, and it's not a money grab and being left alone with no-one to turn to. The one suggestion for possible improvement, (based on this early in the course), is maybe some more drill exercises that are targeted to certain skills or competency level could be included. For example: having a range of audio files of different speeds for white key familiarizing or maybe more drill exercises on the four chords that build up in speed so you know that once you can play at that speed your at the right level to continue to the next day. Things like that where you can go 'check' I now know I've mastered the concepts and ready to move on. Food for thought. Ultimately though if you can afford it pay for the ultimate package. In my opinion, (based on my progress so far), you won't regret it.