Rocket Piano Review

Here is a sneak peak as to what’s inside the box when you buy your copy of Rocket Piano.

Hope this will help you with your buying decisions….

Purchase Your Copy of Rocket Piano Here

Don’t forget to check out the Piano For All – What’s in the box Video too.

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Here are two reviews of the best, most complete beginners piano courses available online;

Rocket Piano

This course comes as a large collection of piano tuition books (eBooks), audio files, videos and learning games all of which can be downloaded to your computer.

If you are just starting out then this is the best method around to have you playing the piano to a proficient level in no time at all. It takes you right from the basics of how to to hold your hands and use your fingers through to reading music, improvising and professional jamming techniques.

The guides and videos will walk you through how to read music, and how to improvise, how to play Jazz and how to play Gospel all with the touch of a professional musician. The course is not only for absolute beginners as there are many advanced techniques to work up to. These include whole sections on Jazz and Gospel, improvisation made easy, advanced fingering exercises and groundbreaking learning techniques.

You will be trained to read music AND play by ear, so you will be able to play virtually any song that you hear This is real cutting-edge material and all for the incredible price of no more than one or two conventional piano lessons.

This is our top recommended beginners piano course – for more information visit the Rocket Piano manufacturer’s site for the best deal.

PIANO FOR ALL

This is a really complete guide containing no less than 10 eBooks with accompanying audio and video files. The course is set up a little different from most as it teaches you how to play by ear from the very beginning. You start off playing real songs with the chords you are taught and with professional sounding rhythms. Once you have the chords and rhythms internalized then you will progress on to the more advanced material which includes how to read music. The titles of the 10 eBooks say a lot about the course. They are;

• Party Time / Rhythm Piano Teaching you rhythm style piano straight away
• Shake.. Rattle ‘n’ Roll.. Showing how to play Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll Piano
• Chord Magic Contains more piano chords and memory tricks and works on chord progressions
• Advanced Chords Made Easy For you to learn advanced piano chords including songs and a rhythm chart for 80 Beatles songs
• Ballad Style Teaching you piano ballad style
• Jazz Piano Made Easy Contains some easy techniques you can apply to any tune – Standards, Traditional Jazz piano, Modern Jazz, improvisation and more
• Advanced Blues Piano & Fake Stride Expands on the blues piano techniques learned earlier.
• Taming the Classics Here you will learn to read piano sheet music
• Speed Learning Speeding up your learning process with scales and exercises
• Bumper Resource Book This covers everything else you need to succeed at the piano.

For more information visit the Piano For All site

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Piano For All
Click here For more information on the Course.

For those who want to learn to play the piano here is a detailed look inside one of the most popular beginners piano home study piano courses available. Piano For All.

The video shows in detail the exercises and what is inside the 10 books including,

• Party time
• Blues and rock
• Chord magic
• Advanced chords
• Ballad style
• Jazz made easy

Piano For All
Click here For more information on how to download the Piano For All Course.

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I saw this post on another piano blog and thought you might enjoy it. This is the ultimate in beginners piano…  learn the piano whilst climbing the stairs.

• Volkswagen Fun Theory: Piano Staircase – Volkswagen built this piano stairway in Stockholm, Sweden as part of their fun theory project, which aims to change people’s behavior for the better through fun. That is a great strategy. Related: Water Pump Merry-go-Round – Fold.it …

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I recently came accross these videos by Ruth Searle from Rocket Piano. She is giving free piano lessons over at song pond.

I have made a video playlist of a few of them…  just hover over the video to see the playlist and navegate or just let it run to see them all back to back.

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Here’s a new Rocket Piano review that brings up quite a few useful points for anyone considering buying this. On the same site there are a few other reviews too.

Rocket Piano Review

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Here is our beginners piano chart of the key signatures and what sharps / flats they have.

C major / a minor – No Sharps or Flats

G major / e minor – F sharp
D major / b minor – F sharp, C sharp
A major / f sharp minor – F sharp, C sharp, G sharp
E major / c sharp minor – F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp
B major / g sharp minor – F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp
F sharp major / d sharp minor – F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, E sharp
C sharp major / a sharp minor – F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, E sharp, B sharp

F major / d minor – B flat
B flat Major / g minor – B flat, E flat
E flat Major / c minor – B flat, E flat, A flat
A flat Major / f minor – B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat
D flat Major / b flat minor – B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat
G flat Major / e flat minor – B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat
C flat Major / a flat minor – B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat, F flat

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I have just come across this fantastic resource which will help you to learn piano by ear.

Its a free online ear training software.

The utility takes you from absolute beginner piano level through to a really high level and trains you to recognize the intervals between notes. The theory is that once you have learned to recognize all of the intervals then you will be able to play any song by ear with out needing to see the music. There are full instructions on the site but for me I spent hours just playing around with the utility. It made me remember my time at the conservatory.

Have fun with this and see if you can learn piano by ear yourself.

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This is not the typical piano for beginners but certainly worth taking a look at.

The piano manufacturers Bösendorfer teamed up with Audi to create this futuristic looking piano.

Apparently, despite its lightweight look it still feels and sounds like a genuine Bösendorfer high quality professional grand piano.

See more photos and read the review at the Bösendorfer site

http://www.boesendorfer.com/en/audi.html

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• Music Blogspot: Learn How to Play Easy *Piano Songs*

June 26, 2009
– Check out this piano for beginners web site on how to play by ear.

• Lola !: *Piano* Lessons

June 26, 2009
– Lola puts new light on piano lessons for small children.

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The people at about.com have kindly provided us with a list of free piano sheet music which can be downloaded and printed out.

The interface is a bit clumsy as you have to print out each page separately but as a way to get completely free and legal sheet music its not that bad. If you subscribe to 8notes.com (the providers of the sheet music) then you can download the entire scores in one go.

Included in the list of free music is:

• Alabama – Trad.
• Alouette -Trad.
• Also Sprach Zarathustra (Intro – several pages) – Strauss
• Aria from The Pearl Fishers – Bizet
• Ave Maria – Gounod
• Caprice – Paganini
• Danny Boy – Trad.
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
• For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow – Trad.
• Fur Elise – Beethoven
• German Dance in C – Beethoven
• Hava Nagila – Trad.
• Jesu, bleibet meine freude – Bach
• La Cucaracha – Trad.
• La Donna e mobile – Verdi
• La Marseilleise – Trad.
• Largo from the New World Symphony – Dvorak
• Mazurka from Coppelia – Delibes
• Mexican Hat Dance – Trad.
• Minuet – Bach
• Musetta’s Waltz – Puccini
• Musette in D Major – Bach
• Ode to Joy – Beethoven
• O Sole Mio – Trad.
• Scarborough Fair – Trad.
• Skater’s Waltz -Waldteufel
• Song of the Torreadore – Bizet
• Spring from The Four Seasons – Vivaldi
• The Blue Danube – Strauss
• Theme from Sonata K331 – Mozart
• Theme from Surprise Symphony – Haydn
• Theme from the 1812 Overture – Tchaikovsky
• Theme from Water Music – Handel
• The Swan from Carnival of the Animals – Saint-Saens
• Turkish March – Mozart
• Waltz from Die Fledermaus – Strauss
• Waltz of the Flowers – Tchaikovsky
• Wedding March – Mendelssohn

Enjoy this free piano for beginners sheet music courtesy of about.com and 8notes.com

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