Piano lessons in Denver.
Chord-chart piano for pop, rock, and simpler jazz. In your home or online. Founding rates from $60 an hour, every rate published.
Sit down and play songs.
Piano lessons here make you the person who can sit down and play real songs from a chord chart and by ear, in pop, rock, and slower, simpler jazz. I don't teach notation, and you won't need it. We learn how the chords work, how they interact, and how to hear what a song is doing.
Full honesty, because you're deciding whether to hire me: I'm a little rusty on the piano today. The hard Steely Dan stuff would take me a couple of days to brush back up. What I am, reliably, is a chord-chart player, and that's exactly the piano I teach. If you're aiming at classical repertoire and sight-reading, I'm the wrong teacher and I'll say so. If you want to play songs at a piano, for yourself or the people around you, I'm the right one.
I couldn't walk past a piano either.
It started with a small Yamaha keyboard one kindergarten Christmas, early Sunday mornings, and playing along with the radio. My parents tell me I got piano lessons as a kid. I don't remember a single one.
Pianos kept pulling at me anyway. At other people's houses I would skip the social graces and want to play songs all night. Eventually I bought a $400 piano so I could indulge that properly at home and go to dinner parties without being the disruptive one.
When I sat down to really learn how chords work, I picked Deacon Blues by Steely Dan first, on the theory that if you learn the hard song first, everything after seems easy. Your version of that song will be different. The method stands: your taste sets the target, and we build the technique the target needs.
“You were extremely patient with me as you were teaching me Giant Steps on the piano, and I was only in 4th grade.”
A 4th grader, a Coltrane tune, and the patience to get there. Kids get real music here too. Kids' lessons run 45 minutes, in your home, with a parent home.