Traditional Lessons
One on one piano lessons can be quite expensive and normally range between $20 and $60 per hour. You need to get a teacher that suits you and you may need to try various before you end up with one who you can work well with. You will eed to attend at least once a week for the lessons to pay off.

Home Study Courses
The other option is invest in a home study course. These can be relatively inexpensive and for the cost of one or two traditional lessons you should be set up with months of study material.

Are They Any Good?
A simple web search will reveal that there are literally hundreds of these courses available for immediate download. The question you might be asking is are they any good and will you be able to learn anything from them.

The better quality courses will take you from the absolute basics, teaching you proper posture, hand position, fingering and harmonic basics. You will be presented with practice exercises and pieces to play and depending on the course will be taught to read music, play from chord charts or play by ear. The beauty with all of the home study methods is that you advance at your own pace only moving onto the next lessons when you have mastered the previous.

A well designed course will ensure that you advance quickly and that you will not get bored doing dull exercises but instead ensure that you will be playing musical pieces and songs as early as possible.

Drawbacks
The only real problem that exists with taking home study courses is that you do not have someone there looking over your shoulder to correct any bad habits that you might pick up as these can make it difficult to advance beyond a certain point.

The best study method
If you want to study on your own at home then I suggest that you get a good quality reputable study course (see the recommendations below) and find a private teacher who can give you lessons once every month or two just to check over your general playing style and correct any bad habits that you might have got into.

Reviews
Check out these Beginner Piano Course Reviews on two of the best, most complete courses available online.

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Piano for All

With an amazing 10 downloadable eBooks and hundreds of video and audio files this guide is fast becoming one of the best selling beginner piano courses available.

With this course there is no need to worry about having to read music as right from the very start it has you playing the piano by ear using common chords. You will be playing professional sounding music right from day one. Later on in the course you are of course introduced to reading music but also you are taught more advanced improvisation, Jazz, blues rock ‘n’ roll and many other styles including classical music.

The ten tuition book which make up the main part of the course are as follows.

1. Party Time / Rhythm Piano – This teaches you rhythm style piano
2. Shake.. Rattle ‘n’ Roll..
3. Chord Magic – Contains more piano chords and works on chord progressions
4. Advanced Chords Made Easy – Includes songs, a rhythm chart and 80 Beatles songs
5. Ballad Style
6. Jazz Piano Made Easy – Includes Standards, Traditional Jazz piano, Modern Jazz, improvisation and more
7. Advanced Blues Piano & Fake Stride
8. Taming the Classics – Here you will learn to read piano sheet music
9. Speed Learning – This is to speed up your learning process with scales and exercises
10. Bumper Resource Book

To find out more go to the Piano For All web site now!

Rocket Piano

Rocket Piano is a huge collection of tuition books you download as eBooks along with accompanying audio files, videos and it even comes with its own learning games designed to help you on your piano learning journey.

For the beginner this is one of the best methods there is and you will be playing the piano in no time at all and at levels you wouldn’t imagine.

The piano learning kit will take you from the absolute basic up to reading music, improvisation, and professional jamming techniques.

The videos and audio files will show you how to improvise, how to play Jazz, how to read music, how to play Gospel and much more, all with the touch of a professional musician.

The guide is also well suited for those who are not absolute beginners.  There are lots of advanced techniques to work up to including whole sections on Jazz and Gospel, improvisation along with advanced fingering exercises and learning techniques.

The kit will teach you to read music AND how to play by ear enabling you to play virtually any song you hear.
This is real cutting-edge material and all for the incredible price of no more than one or two conventional piano lessons.

To find our more about this amazing beginners piano course – visit the Rocket Piano web site.

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