Piano Revealed

What is Piano Revealed?

Piano Revealed is a brand new seven-book series to guide absolute beginners, whether children or adults, through the art of playing piano. The music progresses gradually to minimize frustration and to build solid technical grounding. This is a classical piano approach, preparing students for standard repertoire by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and so many others.

What makes Piano Revealed unique?

In addition to thoroughly covering the elements of piano playing and music reading, Piano Revealed introduces improvisation, composition, and basic music theory. The method encourages new techniques to be practiced through improvisation as a way to not only make practicing them exciting, but also to more fully internalize them.

Who is Piano Revealed for?

This method is designed to appeal to adults and children alike. Older children and some adults are likely to move more quickly through the first book, while younger children typically benefit from a casual pace. Children at a reading age will do best. The cognitive stage when children can readily attach meaning to abstract symbols is necessary for both fluently reading words and for reading music.

What does Piano Revealed offer piano teachers?

Experienced piano teachers often use specific methods which match their teaching style. While I do hope teachers will explore Piano Revealed as a potential method to include in their teaching, I can understand that many have built curriculum around specific books which they’ve happily adapted to.

Why an album?

The Piano Revealed album is designed to stand on its own musical merit. All music from the 7-book series is available on YouTube. But the album contain a selection of pieces from the series, presented purely for listening pleasure. The music from Piano Revealed, while often very simple, is not solely intended as music for the sake of learning, but first as music for music’s sake.