Learn and Master Piano Review

Q: What happens when you team up a Grammy-winning piano instructor with one of the top music education companies in the market? A: You get Learn and Master Piano.

Released in late 2007, Learn and Master Piano has quickly emerged as one of the most comprehensive learn-at-home piano courses currently available. Learn and Master Piano is professional-grade music education program that's consists of DVDs, a workbook, audio CDs, and some additional online content. If you’ve found that learning piano from more traditional learning methods such as books, and online manuals aren’t particularly well-suited to your learning style, you’ll probably love the Learn and Master Piano course which takes visual learning to a whole new level.

Learn and Master Piano is a good choice both for those who may never have played piano before as well as for those with some prior experience, but want to kick their skills up a notch. Keep in mind that while Learn and Master Piano was not designed specifically for children with small hands, kids 13 years and older should be able to use this course as intended. It does have a rather steep learning curve which has the benefit of allowing you to start playing real music as soon as possible. The course teaches you both to play by ear and to read music effectively, both important skills to have.

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When learning a new instrument like the piano, it's very important that you learn from a qualified instructor that knows how to teach. With Learn and Master Piano you get to learn from the best of the best. Your instructor, Will Barrow is a Grammy-winning composer, vocalist, and songwriter. He has also toured, performed and recorded with the likes of Freda Payne, Wanda Jackson, Karen Parks, Suzy Bogguss, the Gatlin Brothers as well as many others.

Learn and Master Piano covers many genres you may be interested in eventually playing, such as jazz, blues, classical, rock, country, modern pop, ragtime, and others.

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A few screenshots of the Learn and Master Piano Course

Features

The Learn and Master Piano program is made up of several learning components - The DVDs, the play-along CDs, the workbook, and the online content. We’ll talk about each below.

The DVDs:

The heart of the Learn and Master Piano curriculum are the professionally produced DVDs, 20 in all. The course starts right you at the very beginning and quickly takes you into more advanced territory.

One great feature of the DVD lessons is that they show a virtual keyboard which makes it very easy to see what is being played at any time. Other features include the “Lesson Nuggets” which point out important concepts or ideas that help broaden your understanding of the topic being discussed.

Play-Along CDs:

These 5 CDs contain 120 full band practice songs that you’ll be learning on the DVDs. All of the tracks were professionally recorded in a studio with top-notch musicians and sound amazing. For some of the beginning songs you can choose the tempo, (slow, medium, fast) and when you’re ready you can even choose to rock out solo without the piano accompaniment. These CDs are a lot of fun to incorporate into your daily piano practice. If you want to hear some samples of the high-quality soundtracks that are on the CDs, you can hear a few clips on their website.

Workbook:

As you won’t always be playing along with the DVDs, the Learn and Master Piano lesson book is an important part of the course. The workbook was designed to parallel the DVD lessons and was organized by session so that you can easily find your place when practicing away from your computer or TV. As with the DVDs, the 104-page workbook is well-produced and richly illustrated.

Online Community Site:

On Learn and Master Piano’s community site and forum you can ask questions pertaining to the different sessions and get answers from the forum staff, fellow piano students, and even Will Barrow himself! This is a really great feature that ensures that you will never get lost if there is something you come across that you can’t quite understand. When we looked over the forums, we didn’t spot a single thread that wasn’t addressed by another community member.

Support

If you have customer service related questions, you can easily phone or email customer service at Legacy Learning Systems and usually get a response within 48 hours.

 As mentioned above, members also have anytime access to a special member’s only forum, where you can post piano-related questions to qualified instructors or fellow piano students. This community site also contains supplemental material not found in the course.

Ordering Information

Recently, a new version of Learn and Master Piano was recently unveiled, the student edition. This edition contains everything that the regular course has, but adds an extra DVD for a parents or teacher to use, a two-year plan for working with the course, and a 68-page teacher's guide. This edition is a real smart choice for parents who may homeschool their kids, and want to teach them to play piano at home.

When ordering Learn and Master Piano you’re limited to the major credit cards (They don’t currently accept PayPal or Google Checkout). If you are on a slightly tighter budget, they do give you the option to buy using a 3 equal payment plan, though there is a nominal administration fee.

International pianists can rejoice as Learn and Master Piano ships internationally.

Learn and Master Piano comes with a full 60-day money back guarantee, where if you want to return the course for any reason, you can get 100% of your money back. (You do have to cover return shipping however) We don’t think you’ll need to take advantage of that guarantee, but we agree that it’s always nice to have that security.

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Learn and Master Piano video showing how the course works and several customer reviews.

Conclusion

Even though it's the most expensive piano program reviewed on this site, we have to emphasize that Learn and Master Piano is the best value for your money. When you do some quick calculations, you’ll find that if you took lessons from an average music teacher once a week at $30/lesson, you’d have spent the same amount of money in only 5 lessons (a little over a month’s worth), and in all likelihood, not have improved all that much. There are many additional advantages that Learn and Master Piano holds over traditional piano lessons. For example, if you didn’t understand a particular topic, you can always run through the lesson as many times as you feel you need to. Also, you won’t have to feel the pressure to perform in front of a live teacher that expects you to be able to follow his lead.

There are virtually no other courses out there that have a comparable curriculum. The caliber of the teaching and learning material, as well as the production quality of Learn and Master Piano is unrivalled in most of today’s piano courses. All of this combines to make Learn and Master Piano our premier choice, hands down.