It should only take two days to learn to play piano "like a master". Gee whizz. How cool is that?You can find out how for just $50, here: http://www.pianobypattern.com/

Yes I know - very silly. Is anyone taken in by this nonsense?

This site is a lot more useful: http://www.piano-lessons-master-teachers.com/

Bernie might

Eh? I'll have a voice like a Steinway in the morning?

Typo, I'm sure. But cool, I will be able to play like Horowitz with minimal effort, I'll buy two!


What a load of absolute tosh, if there's a way of speeding my fingers up to the level required to play the revolutionary Etude in 24 hours, then plug me into the Matrix or whatever it is

2 days seems like such a long time to learn to play the piano!!!

Why waste 24 hours??!!!!

My piano teacher is ripping me off!

Ahhh, bless him...

MT ssssshhhh!!!!! you'll have all us poor teachers out of a job..

when I think of all the hours and years I've been learning the piano and I could have made it so much easier on myself...

Anyone can play piano - just plonk your fingers on the keys. I could play every note on the piano is much less than 24 hours.



Playing music on the piano is a different matter.

At my sprogs' (secondary) school, they had about three class music lessons involving pressing about four keys on electronic keyboards. Then they changed to drums because, "you've now learnt to play keyboard". Erm......

I like the bit in the blurb where he says 'ask any piano teacher - it normally takes a year to learn to play the piano, - then just in case we didn't know - thats 12 months, or 365 days

So I've been playing for more than a year, well 30 years - does this mean I know everything?

So no shortcut to success for the violin/string instruments then?

Rats!

Only the piano can be learned in two days...

Reminds me of a nurse I encountered at our doctors' surgery. She was miffed that I didn't let her inject one of my children. So when, in conversation, I said I was a piano teacher, she sniffed and said her daughter didn't need a teacher. She was learning it all from a book.

if you are thinking of getting into this, be aware that it's designed for a keyboard that has black notes in groups of five.

If you don't believe me click on the link ...

Now I know why my playing doesn't sound right, there are obviously lots of black notes missing from my piano!

Ah, it's Condensed Piano....

That is shocking, and a terrible indictment on music education in some schools.

Makes me sad

It means you know THIRTY TIMES everything! You genius, you

PS Looking at the fact I've written a bit in captials (why didn't I just use bold or italic?), I think our friend BERNIE might find a course such as this of INTEREST.

####### - so why couldn't I work out 3 bars in my new piece this morning then? I was obviously using the wrong elementary finger patterns

Gets slated reviews in here:

http://www.pianocoursereviews.com/Piano-By...CFdRb4wodVDao0w

Looks like they DO give the money back if requested, but they probably base their "business model" around the fact that a certain percentage of people will not bother.

I like it - learn to play piano without learning the notes????? Cool! So how does he play the Beethoven sonatas then?

I'm sure that Tom the Cat did a much simpler course: Three lessons and only 6 notes in total - it took him about 5 seconds! Then he threw the book away and launched into (I think) a Chopin Waltz (from memory!)

After that when Tom played Jerry danced, until Tom stopped to try and catch Jerry, then Jerry ran for it!

I think the course as advertised in the link in the OP falls into the same category of fiction as Tom & Jerry's course.

I liked the Tom and Jerry Listz one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWGQaczNL5I here's the link for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a must, honestly one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Thanks for that link, Digby - it's just given my son and me a great laugh!

That cartoon is the reason that Lang Lang took up the piano!!!!

One of the keyboard's black keys is broken. BUT... if you click on the one without a label, you get $10 off!

I have to say though, I'm quite enjoying the whole-tone white notes. I think a redesign of the standard keyboard is called for.

LOL! Great design

Inspires you with confidence!

similar set of jokes, and a few new ones: bugs bunny doing battle with another mouse. Liberties with the actual structures of pianos taken in both cartoons

What, seriously?!

Yes - to be fair, he was 2 at the time.

The one I was thinking of was "Johann Mouse": It was 6 lessons not 3, 9 notes not 6 and Johann Strauss the younger, not Chopin. Still . . .
Johann Mouse

So funny, the Fred Quimby ones are legendary.

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The sites you suggest containing interviews with famous pianists is great. Thank you.
But in reality, I am posting to say that I am so very glad you decided to post again. I hadn't been to the Forum for about a fortnight and it was good to see you among us Forumites once again. Welcome back!