Sir, you are a super duper musician. Your piano method is awesome. It's simple, yet concise & comprehensive. I' m starting to work on Fur Elise coz it's more familiar to me. I'm a complete stranger to Finding You & Marriage D Amour. It's my first time hearing them. I'm already applying the accompaniment styles to the other songs I know. It works & I'm glad. I'm beginning to do keyboard improvisation, still slow & takes time it's fun doing your own way. I like your numeric progressions. I can easily visualize the "chord runs" by the number than by chord names. I have a visual memory of the intervals. The "So fa" sheet is so helpful in memorization. It really makes you use your ears more than your eyes . Keep up the good work. Thank you for creating such a wonderful method. I'm aiming for the Canon in D for the next.
自購入教材版剛好一年,理想值是琴技已經練了整整一年也應該有一定成果,但事實是自己到最近才很認真的在練琴(一直三分鐘熱度沒有認真練= =)。我是長期身處台灣的香港人,由小到大有斷斷續續學琴總共約一年,一直以來不求考級,無譜彈奏才是學琴大目標。即使目標如此明確,傳統學琴往往乏味在於重覆彈著不喜歡的練習曲,最後不是缺乏憧憬和熱情,只是缺少意志和耐性。Anyway,一年前巧合地知道即興彈奏的教程,起初半信半疑,下手前"刨"完感想集覺得不夠再send email 問東問西覺得可行了才購買(I am a 勁麻煩學生XD)其實正在看感想的你,跟當時的我想法是一樣的吧?
The course was very fun and enjoyable. Derek is very professional and detailed in his explanations. I would highly recommend this course because not only that it will improve our listening skills, it has made piano playing a lot more interesting and fun compared to the traditional method.
I have taken traditional piano lessons before and it takes absolutely ages to progress and perfect a song which I find boring and demotivating.
I can now play songs with less time and get satisfaction from it with less practice. Definitely recommend this course for players who want to play a variation of songs and don't like taking piano exams.
I think this is the perfect piano course for Adults to learn how to play the piano. The course structure is very well-planned in a very concise and easy to understand manner. Derek is very clear in his presentation. I am totally won over by the way this piano course is conducted.
This course enables us to learn the core techniques of playing piano, in being able to play a piece of music very quickly, along with many syles and variations needed. Most importantly, it teaches us not to rely on the traditional score sheets which we are so used to.
I learned so much useful skills from Derek and team in such short period of time than my 3 years of typical piano lessons with a private teacher. This course truely teaches us how to make music!
I live in US so i can only buy video course to learn. This video course really can teach you how to make your own chord on the songs that you like. Also, the teaching is wonderful, easy to understand the concept on each chord. The most difficult part for me is the listening part, but i believe i can improve it after i hear more songs. Overall this is a good piano course to learn. Highly recommended, thank you Mr Chan for the teaching.
I must admit that I was extremely skeptical about your method when I first got the video course.
I'm finally convinced that your technique is an excellent way to learn to play piano by ear. Much better then any of the methods I've tried so far. I've been practicing the Raymond Lam song, which I never thought I'd even come close to learning to play, with amazing results.