" Seven Month Course In Piano Improvisation!" Seven-Month Course -- One Book & One Audio CD each month for 7-months (but NOW shipped to you ALL AT ONCE), plus the free bonus DVD on "How To Improvise Using Chords!"

Item#: V-07

$349.00

The Exciting 7-Month Home Study Course in Improvising!

Who else wants to learn the secrets of piano improvising -- making up music as you play?

I'm about to tell you a true story. If you believe me, you will be well rewarded. In fact, it could change your piano-playing life. If you don't believe me, I will make it worth your while to change your mind.

Let me explain:

When I was in the 8th grade, there were lots of kids who could play piano better than I. For example, there was this guy named Scott who had the same piano teacher I did, and at the annual recital he played "Kitten On The Keys" -- a jazzy up tempo novelty song with lots of frills that really got the audience going. I played right after him, and my song was "Minuet in G" -- hardly an exciting song, and much easier than "Kitten On The Keys". It was embarrassing, because he was my age, and had only taken piano lessons a year longer than I had.

Now fast forward 3 years. We are in our 3rd year of high school at Placer High in Auburn, California. I had gotten interested in jazz a couple years earlier and had sent off for a "Chord Chart" in the mail. As I recall, it cost me two bucks. Working all by myself with that chord chart I had learned a dozen or so of the most-used chords. Then I went to a jazz concert at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento where I saw the great Erroll Garner play a solo concert. I had no idea that a piano could sound like that, and I perceived that what he was doing was breaking up chords in some complex ways I didn't understand at the time -- but wanted desperately to find out.

So I immediately bought some of his records and started playing along with them, running my hands up and down the keyboard as I heard him get higher and lower, pretending that I was the one making those incredible sounds. I did that by the hour -- not only at home, but also in the practice rooms in the music building at Placer High.

One day as I was doing this, Scott happened to walk by the practice room I was in and noticed what I was doing.

"What in the world do you think you're doing, Shinn?

That sounds terrible!"

He was right, of course. It did sound terrible, but that wasn't the point. The point was -- I was gradually learning which chords Garner was using, and how he was breaking them up and moving so deftly between them.

Now fast forward another 2 years. We are in our first year of college at Sierra Junior College, and I am playing in the college dance combo. Scott sees me playing and comes over to the bandstand and stares at my hands for a long time. Finally he shrugs and says "I can't believe it. I actually used to be better than you, Shinn. Now all I can do is play what's in front of me, and you can improvise all over the place."

I tell you this story not to brag, but to demonstrate that it is possible to learn to improvise -- even by yourself, with no one to help you but a chord chart and some recordings.

But YOU don't have to learn by yourself. You can take advantage of all that I have learned about improvising over the past umpteen years since that happened. Instead of sweating by yourself, trying to figure out "how they do that", you can stand on my shoulders and learn piano improvisation correctly right from the start.

Here's how the program works:

I'm going to take you on a 7-month journey into piano improvisation. Each month for seven solid months you'll receive a new book from me, along with a wonderful audio CD on which I play and explain and demonstrate everything in the book, so you can hear how it sounds as well as see what it looks like!

Learn to improvise on the piano -- make up music as you go along -- with this 7-month in-home study course. You'll get one book and one audio CD each month for 7 months, taking you from square one in improvising to being able to create your own motifs, variations, and melodies in a variety of styles, from jazz to the blues to ballads. By the time the course is over, you will have a complete set of 8 instructional CD's plus all the books for each month's lesson plus the Bonus DVD, all in a big, beautiful 3-ring binder!

More information here!

Course #V-7: " Seven Month Course In Piano Improvisation!" Seven-Month Course -- One Book & One Audio CD each month for 7-months!