Introduction 1

n my years of teaching, playing and selling pianos, it's become obvious to me that piano "lessons" don't work well enough. More people drop out of making music on piano than not. I think I know why. This site will make an effort to fix that problem.

This site is still under heavy construction as of June 2011 so there's not a lot here yet but you can begin to get an idea of the direction we're going to go by clicking on the following start button.

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Introduction 2
PianoLessonsEtc.com attempts to create a basis for piano lessons that involves simply watching and listening to the original musicians performing a piece, then watching and listening to a piano or piano/vocal version of it by an amateur. Links to free sheet music and an explanation of the chord changes and other features will be added. There is no other piano lesson website like it that I have yet discovered, yet it is based on a powerful monkey-see monkey-do behavioral science confirmed phenomenon in humans.

[+] Discussion Forum for latest topics to which many of the above indexed items are linked.

[+] Earlier forum... "Piano Lesson Party"

Online no-play piano lessons require beginner index & custom lesson index.

I'm going to be recalibrating my effort to create online no-play piano lessons so that I have an actual course for beginners established in one blog and then a custom lesson index for those who have been through the course, just as I have in my real live studio.

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Newboys-- The Breakfast Song

Here's a song a student of mine is switch on by... so I guess we'll take a look at it.



[+] Start by printing out these chords with lyrics and sing along.

[+] Further work with discussion in outline format here. We'll look at the song structure, how to play it on the piano, what you need for the vocals etc.

Autumn Leaves became a piano hit and has been used in jazz.

Part of your active listening no-play piano lessons must include tunes that became piano hits but started out as regular songs. Like this one... Autumn Leaves... sung by a lady named Edith Piaff in the 1930's.



It became a standard that everyone plays in some form. Here's a jazz band playing a version of it.



And here's an amateur pianist playing it on just one piano... using some very nice chords.



And finally a comedic version by Victor Borge...



Now that you've listened to Autumn Leaves in various ways, let's look more closely at it from the chord point of view.... enter the discussion outline for that here.