Pianoforall Review After One Month

Course Goals and Suitability

There are two answers to this question because it all depends on your goal. If your goal is to be able to pick up a piece of classical music—this complicated piece with all the 10 pages of sheet music—this course is not for you. It's not going to help you reach your goals. But if your goal is to instead be able to hear a song that you like, play the chords, and accompany someone else, accompany yourself as you sing, or even just play through the song, this course is a fantastic resource. In my personal opinion, this course is completely worth the money. It's actually, I feel like, a bargain for how much content there is in it. So, definitely check it out if that's one of your goals.

Additional Goals

Also, if you have a goal to be a songwriter or to compose music, it's fantastic because you learn all the different chords, how those chords can make chord progressions, and how to put those chords together. As you're playing, you'll play a chord progression, and then you might get a little creative and make your own song just from the same chord or another chord progression from another song. So, absolutely a great resource if it matches with your goals; that's a key point there.

Course Structure and Methodology

So, what's in the course? Well, there's a lot going on. From the very beginning, Robin does a great job of explaining how to start, and he uses an interesting teaching method. Instead of giving you different drills, he immediately jumps into songs. You start playing songs with some basic chord shapes, and what I think is really cool is that he teaches you the rhythms and different rhythms to play different songs really, really soon in the curriculum. For example, this rhythm is so common in a lot of music that we listen to:

Progression and Complexity

So, that's kind of his method starting out—to teach you all the different chords of the piano and different rhythms that you can use for different songs. As the course progresses, the chords get more difficult and more complex, and the rhythms get more difficult and complex. The rhythm even gets more complex for the left hand, and as the right hand plays the chords, vice versa. It adds complexity as the course proceeds.

Practice and Pace

In a month, I was only able to get through lesson three. There are like 18 lessons, so there is a lot of content here. What Robin, the instructor of the course, doesn’t do is give you a daily regimen of things to practice. So, you can practice as much or as little as you want, and he gives you tons of songs to practice. If you want, you can perfect them—you can practice them over and over again until you get them perfect—or you could not. It's really up to you. But you're going to progress faster if you put more serious practice in and try hard to make your song sound as good as possible. But it's up to you regarding the pace. From my pace, where I tried to perfect some songs, I was able to get to the point that I showed you earlier.

Final Thoughts

So, absolutely, great course. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to play piano in a way that's more approachable. It's kind of intimidating to get to the piano and have to learn all the nuances of sheet music right out the gate. This will teach you some aspects of sheet music, but again, if you are more interested in being able to play a song note for note exactly how you hear it in a classical piece, then you might look elsewhere. If you're trying to play music that you enjoy, such as popular music, and be able to play along and write music, this is really a great resource. I'm going to be taking other courses for other instruments, so if you're interested in learning instruments and are curious what courses can teach you in just a short period of time, make sure to subscribe to this channel. Thanks for watching.