Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Adult Beginners Forum anyone have experience with PianoInstruction.com??

here is a link to the various offerings:

http://www.pianoforkids.com/PianoInstruction/index.html

quite an interesting array of options, ranging from a CD instructional package to online instructional aids to personalized video lessons. i'm wondering how it compares to other methods (sudnow, etc.).

obviously anything other than having a real instructor (who is good -- i'm convinced that no instructor beats a poor instructor) is not ideal, but given my current schedule and other constraints i think the "self directed" route is what i'm going to have to settle for.

thanks very much for any information!

I haven't heard about this site before, but
you should try contacting them first before
ordering since it looks like the website hasn't
been updated in 3 yrs. There are several
dozen sites like this on the web, including
one that emails you lessons every week completely
free. The free lessons are to whet your
appetite to buy a complete instructional
CD, but they are surprisingly informative
and you could learn a lot from them. This
is in the jazz/popular, chord-based style.

I'm slightly skeptical about this 64.00 CD
offer. I've seen sites that offer similar
CD's for less. And you can also buy
adult series instructional books for less
than this, for example, the very good 2-vol.
adult piano series by Mark Nevin.

Also, it depends on what style you're interested
in. The Nevin books would be better for
classical and all-around training, while
the internet sites seem to be mainly jazz
(chordal accompaniment) style.

gyro thanks a lot for your comments.

there is a lot to choose from, that is for sure. one way to look at it is $50-75 is not much of a risk, but my concern is the potential time wasted on a method that turns out to be not very good (which of course could be time spent on something better). so i'm trying to get feedback on the experience of others, while immediately crossing off the list the methods that promise proficiency in a week or whatever.

i'll keep looking for now, but may give sudnow a try.

thanks again!

Sudnow is a tablature-only system with no
standard musical notation. If you're a complete
novice, it would probably be better to have
some experience playing from standard musical
notation as well, like you would get
in the Nevin books (these are about 20.00
or less on the web for both books).

There are some enthusiastic Sudnow players
on these forums who swear by his system. It
seems to be pretty good as an introduction
to jazz style playing, but I'd
think that you should also study
some general piano playing from standard
musical notation--for example, with the Nevin
books or a similar series--along side
with it.

There are a few of us (well, maybe more than a few) who use the Sudnow method, and if you do a search, you will find a lot of favorable comment.

Bob

thanks for the follow up.

from what i see on the www, the nevin books look kind of "classical oriented" to me, which is not the style i'm after.

i've done several searches and have actually found quite a few posts about "DIY" methods. today i found this one about sudnow

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/37/52.html

which makes it sound like the sudnow method may not be appropriate for the style i'm most interested in (rock). however, it still may be the best way to start.

since this is getting away from the original inquiry about pianoinstruction.com, maybe i'll make a more general post about what i want to do and finding the best way to do it.

thanks again for taking the time to post replies!