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I am a jazz/blues guitarist and have started studying keyboard for a variety of reasons - mostly to improve my grasp of theory. I have no interest in playing music from printed scores, except as a learning tool (I often refer to 'Fake Books', but never to full, scored arrangements). My interest is i...

I am a retired educator. I spent years designing and implementing pedogogical systems for both 'classroom' and 'computer-based' delivery. I also spent a lot of time teaching in the classroom. There has been a strong trend in education to develop, what I call, 'vertical' teaching systems. Those are s...

I have been playing guitar for more than 20 years and here is my take on 'frustration'. This has all become much more meaningful to me since I started studing keyboard here and am revisitiong 'awkward beginner' land. It is easy, even if you are an advanced player, to become discouraged, and/or intim...

I agree that this system provides a fairly good introduction to playing piano, but there is a lot of very important material missing. I have had to go to other locations to find detailed information on chords (inversions, substitutitons, etc.). I am a jazz guitar player trying to expand my musical s...

I am a guitar player. I have NEVER played keyboard. These lessons are my first experience with keyboard. When I teach, I warn about 'Logical Gaps'. A logical gap is a place in the instruction, where the instructor assumes knowledge on the part of the student which has not been taught. When these gap...

I am a guitar player learning piano to expand my understanding of theory and to generally enhance my ability to read for, and play, guitar. So far, none of the lessons, or the songs, that I have worked with include the chords. Most of the sheet music, including all of the fakebooks that I use, inclu...