Learn the chord-and-pattern logic behind authentic pop piano, so you can understand songs, build your own arrangements and play by chords, by ear and by heart.
Start with the free Hack the Piano Launchpad.
No prior theory or sheet-music reading required.
Sheet music can tell you which notes to press. A tutorial can show you where to put your fingers. But when every song requires another page, video or set of instructions, you are still starting from zero each time.
You may learn the notes without ever understanding:
There is nothing wrong with using sheets or tutorials as tools. The problem is being dependent on them. You do not need another disconnected answer. You need to understand the system underneath the song.
Hack the Piano teaches you to approach contemporary music through chords, harmony, rhythm, patterns and your ears. Instead of treating every song as a new collection of notes, you learn to recognise the same musical building blocks across song after song.
It is not a shortcut around learning music.
It is a more direct route to the skills you need for the music you actually want to play.
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These lessons lift the cloud to show you the fundament hiding below and how to use that framework to quickly learn, remember and play any song by heart.
Most budding pianists don’t sound like the real deal at all, because they approach music on a by-note-basis. Real musicians play by Chords, which is why they sound so full.
These lessons teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These lessons will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Many people consider scales to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. The lessons in this "sub" layer, will show you that scales are far from boring when you use them in the correct ways - as musical dialects for a profound musical understanding.
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These lessons will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These lessons will show you the correct ways, mindset, origin and application of any type of improvisation - from a quick grace note, to a full-blown solo.
Expressing yourself through music shouldn’t be a mystery. Sadly though coming up with anything not written on paper remains a guessing game for most people. These lessons will teach the different value each chord has within a song and how you can use that to your advantage when composing yourself - either when improvising, adapting a known tune, or when writing your own, full-blown songs.
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These lessons lift the cloud to show you the fundament hiding below and how to use that framework to quickly learn, remember and play any song by heart.
Most budding pianists don’t sound like the real deal at all, because they approach music on a by-note-basis. Real musicians play by Chords, which is why they sound so full.
These lessons teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These lessons will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Many people consider scales to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. The lessons in this "sub" layer, will show you that scales are far from boring when you use them in the correct ways - as musical dialects for a profound musical understanding.
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These lessons will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These lessons will show you the correct ways, mindset, origin and application of any type of improvisation - from a quick grace note, to a full-blown solo.
Expressing yourself through music shouldn’t be a mystery. Sadly though coming up with anything not written on paper remains a guessing game for most people. These lessons will teach the different value each chord has within a song and how you can use that to your advantage when composing yourself - either when improvising, adapting a known tune, or when writing your own, full-blown songs.
Professional Pop-Pianist
Roland-featured author/instructor
Founder of Piano Couture
Creator of the Chord Piano BluePrint
& the Hack the Piano Methodology
Like virtually anybody, when I started out playing piano at age 4 I was "forced" down the traditional path of learning how to read sheet music too. That didn't work out ...
Learn how music is built and how to use those building blocks to play and create your very own renditions.
Whether you'd like to play with others in a band, or accompany anyone's vocals (including your own).
Understanding music's foundational building blocks will improve your arrangements, hooks, licks and riffs.
Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheet music?
Probably not, right?
That's because modern music isn't played from sheets.
Actually, since music is in fact a language, learning to read before you can speak seems completely backwards - whatever style we're talking about.
Guitarists get this. They first learn to strum chords - the equivalent of saying some words.
99% of them keeps approaching music this way forever, learning how to build riffs, licks and even entire solos out of those fundamental musical "chunks" called Chords (& Patterns).
But while guitarists are having all the fun, piano is still stuck in this outdated system.
Here we do things differently.
Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheets while playing? Exactly.
Our "chunking" methodology focusses on learning re-usable blocks: chords & patterns, that are much like words and pronunciation in language.
Learn how styles like Pop, Soul, Blues, Funk, Hip-hop, Singer-Songwriter etc. are made, and played.
We use a rhythm- and harmony-theory approach - the founding pillars of all music. So you learn to sound exactly like the record, or improvise to create your very own unique rendition.
Conservatory-graduated and tons of experience in the actual music business. This is how we do music.
Isn't it strange that guitarists never read traditional sheets, while even beginners are often able to play dozens of songs by heart, with everyone singing along? Learn that "guitarists' approach."
How to play anything you want, by ear and finally actually sound like the pianos on your favorite records.
We will learn Pop Piano tricks, traits and techniques to actually understand music. This works on ALL songs and you are free to choose your own songs, to do the exercises and assignments with.
Since we are Amsterdam -and thus Europe- based, you'll be charged in Euros. The dollar price depends on the current conversion rate and optionally costs your bank or credit card company charges for the conversion. These costs are outside of our control unfortunately and conversion rates vary by day.
Please note that we cover any taxes.
Everything in this program is scalable and using the 6 pillars of chord-piano, we'll deconstruct and then build everything we do back up, gradually growing in level of difficulty.
You can "stop" (stick to) the level that's challenging, but not too difficult for you, which -whatever level that might be for you- will get you sounding very close to original records you listen to.
You can then redo the course later, going up to the next level.
Everything you need to know to play and sound like your favorite pop-piano singer-songwriters is there.
Everything you already know is easy to skip, or adapt to make it suitable for a level more advanced. (plus - repetition has never hurt a soul).
With that said, select the course that fits your current situation (see their descriptions).
Let me ask you this: Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheet music at any of his or her performances? Exactly.
That's because they play pop-piano: piano by chords. They know their chords, harmony-theory, voicings, patterns and how to play with those. This is how they form all of their piano parts and this is exactly what you'll learn in this program too.
Chord-piano. No sheet-music (only chord-sheets every now and then).
That's not a question! 🙂
Just kidding. You can ask me anything by simply sending an email to coen@piano-couture.com
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