What's The Best Way To Learn Piano Online? Pros & Cons 👩🏼‍🏫🎹

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Choosing the best way to learn to play the piano online will play a huge part in getting you to where you want to be as a piano player. That’s why we've tested out some of the most popular online piano lessons so you can see what they are all about!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:30 - Learning on YouTube 📺
3:12 - Videogame style learning 👾
5:33 - Playground Sessions 🤽♀️
7:55 - Private online lessons 👩🏼🏫
9:12 - Membership model 📝
12:25 - Review

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[PianoteOfficial]

What are your favourite Piano Youtube channels to watch? List them here:

[sargeJr]

I'm an older guy who's beginning to learn piano and so You're my favorite. I really enjoy how you teach. Thank you!

[ilangomasan]

If you really want to master the piano, then you definitely can. What you have to do is to practice and to be patient. 😊😊😊😊







All the best!!

[musikone]

If I wasn't already a member of Pianote, I would say "of course Lisa is going to say Pianote is the best".
I have a lifetime membership to Playground Sessions and currently do a yearly membership plan to pianote.
By far, Pianote is my favorite way to learn the piano. For some reason, I feel more engaged with Pianote and I like the method of teaching. I remember absolutely hating piano lessons growing up. Having to learn all the theory, practicing scales, etc. Yes, you still have to practice scales even with Pianote, but the lessons to me have been turned upside down. You don't have to wait a few years to start playing your favorite songs. I gave up before, because I didn't get any satisfaction from all the work I put into it. All that practice and I still couldn't play anything I liked. In Pianote, I was learning how to play songs that I liked almost immediately.

My approach to learning is by using Pianote as my main instructor and if I want more practice to hone in on a skill, I use playground sessions. I think using them as a pair makes sense. Also, though pianote has a lot of song tutorials, Playground sessions has a vast library of song tutorials. I think of it like this: Playground sessions teaches me how to read music to play a specific song, but Pianote teaches me a few tools to be able to play many songs.

[bryang]

Another wonderful thing about online video lessons is you can watch and rewatch lessons over and over and they are wonderful for people who have to work unusual schedules since they can be accessed. 24/7/365. Back when I was a kid in the 1980s and a teenager in the 1990s, the only way one could learn piano was either private lessons with a teacher, class piano, or buying a bunch of books and using them to teach yourself. Today, you have a lot of other options with the internet and with technology and it is wonderful for those who cannot afford to take piano classes in person or private lessons.

[michaelhiggins]

Purchasing a Lifetime Membership to Pianote was one of the very best decisions I've made. I've been with Pianote now, a little over a year and am finally feeling like I've turned a huge corner in my playing, presently working on All I ask of You in As Written form. Yes! I can finally roll those arpeggios in the left hand while playing the melody in the right, this is a huge achievement and all made possible through Pianote. I am nearly through Level six in Foundations and am planning on continuing through to the end. I then plan on picking up on Level three of Method and completing that curriculum till the end. I am hoping that Pianote does create in the future, a curriculum aimed directly at reaching an Intermediate Level. I appreciate all those who contribute behind the scenes as well as Lisa's efforts both in front and behind of the camera. I truly believe . . . PIANOTE IS CHANGING OUR WORLD FOR THE BETTER . . . ONE NOTE AT A TIME. Yes, I am hoping they will steal this Tag Line from me and use it in their promotion.

[oasisbeyond]

I learn everything online how to make websites, video editing, playing guitar, playing piano, I'm not a pro but, I'm grateful for the internet for this reason.

[Nagaraj]

I am very picky on the teacher- That is why I chose Pianote! :) Thanks for being a wonderful teacher. I have learnt music and instruments before. But after attending your lessons, I felt motivated and invited to learn than being under pressure to learn.

[davidbower]

Thank you, really helpful introduction to the many methods available.

I started with Playground Sessions and while I liked it, I found I wasn’t progressing as much as I wanted to. There are some training videos (not many with Harry!) but they tend to be an introduction to each module. Then you’re just kind of thrown in to the on screen sheet music and it’s so strict on timing! When you’re just starting out, that kind of pressure is pretty intense!! They also don’t show you how each piece should sound so you really need to mess it up a few times before you get a good score. That’s the other thing, the very idea of scoring is just not fun.

So then I found Pianote’s free content on YouTube. I have to say it was like coming home and I signed up for a year almost straight away. The idea of having a friendly, enthusiastic, face showing you what to do, and explaining music theory along the way is just amazing. There’s no performance scoring either so it’s much less pressure, and therefore loads more fun. I find I’m practicing every day now and really looking forward to each session. There’s great structure to the program which is really helpful, but plenty of other individual lessons to choose if you want to go off piste for a while.

So I’m definitely sticking with Pianote for my main lessons, and I’m also enjoying exploring YouTube for additional one off lessons. The other thing I’m doing is buying sheet music to tunes I want to learn, and working it out from scratch. Slow going but a great way to learn a bit of music reading.

Thanks again Lisa and team, keep up the great work!! 👏❤️

[fredrehbein]

Thank you for helping me learn the piano. I'm slow and seem to frustrate teachers. I like seeing your smiling face and neither of us gets upset!

[markhesketh]

I use Bill Hilton, Flowkey, Creative Piano Academy and Pianote. I would like to use Piano Pig. I find I get something from each source. But the main thing is to have fun doing it.

[Robin-Feldman]

I have learned more in a week of Pianote than I did in the past year in another membership learning group.

[Genevieve]

Tomorrow, I’m taking delivery of my first digital piano, well my first piano period! That is when my official start to learning the piano will begin. I’m a couple of months away from turning 50, and really wanted to have the structure and interaction of face to face lessons from a piano teacher. I’ve spent the entire day searching online and here in London, they seem to now primarily offer online lessons. Or if they do offer in person lessons their availability is during hours that I’m working, they’re not accepting anymore students, or they’re at the higher end of the price bracket! Definitely considering subscribing to Pianote now, this is based on the YouTube content that I’ve seen, it is super engaging, well structured, well explained content. I’ll probably settle for online lessons instead, to augment the Pianote learning.

[patrickwall]

I learned piano before the internet existed so I took lessons in person. That said I do think the internet is a great way to learn. One thing I would suggest, especially if your using a method that can't give you feed back as to whether your playing the notes correctly, staying in time, and etc... is to find a way to record yourself. You don't have to record every session I would suggest once a week at least. Include a song or at least part of a song that your familiar with and know how it sounds. This reason is that it seems that our brain cleans things up for us or fills in the pieces so that while we're playing or even while we're singing what we hear sounds perfect when in reality it may not be. This is the reason why choir members that are off key have to be told they're off key-because to them what they're singing sounds perfect. Also don't use the pedal unless it's part of a lesson or called for in a piece you're practicing-the sustain pedal tends to cover up mistakes and makes you sound better than you are.

[bingbongabinga]

I pick parts of songs I like. I write the notes on the staff and then write the key letters by the notes. Then I play the notes with left and right hands untill I can do both well.

[russkoss]

I love your cutesy personality and enthusiasm. It makes me want to learn. I am a beginner and just learning the keys and finger movement. Great honesty of all the different options on line. Appreciate that.

[thomascole]

I have followed many of your Youtube lessons and I've seriously looked into several options for "Online Learning. " My conclusion is that I will be signing up for Pianote within a few weeks. I've tried Flowkey, HDPiano, and others which were just not right for me. I think that looking over the programs at Pianote will meet my learning needs. Thank You again.

[ahmadsaeid]

if Pianote can incorporate those features from those apps that read the note through USB, AND, nail the note duration thing, it would become the ultimate learning method.

[Blues]

I use piano marvel and I must say it is a great tool! I tried the playground sessions but I thought the setup was a little hard to use. I would love to hear from others what they use?

[mfurman]

I tried a few on line piano lesson methods/applications in the last half a year (this was in addition to learning from books). I used two for longer than a month: Flowkey and Skoove (I had three digital pianos since I started learning) then I moved to Playground Sessions and finally signed up for Pianote. I definitely do not like game like approach. I need theory, downloadable sheet music and other supporting material and also video lessons with teacher. I like simple, concise and precise lessons. I do not like too many options and struggling with “you can play it differently as well” approach. I do not want too much talk and feeling that I am treated like a child who needs constant encouragement and loves fun. I know that I need to practice on my own and I need simple guidance and explanation. I want to be able to play from sheet music and have no interest in improvisation. I am a loner and I do not seek any community. I am still looking at more options and may consider private lessons but dread the thought that I cannot find a teacher I like (I also feel sorry for any teacher who will have to deal with me 😄). Ps I like David Bennett on Youtube. He explained to me certain concepts in music better than any lessons.