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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Marsh A.L.C.M. A.R.C.M. L.R.A.M. L.T.C.L.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s Looking to Learn How To Play Piano or simply improve their Piano Technique? space At one time the thought of learning piano or even just trying to improve your piano technique online would have been ridiculous but as web video technology has moved on it&#8217;s now a valid alternative for the discerning student.. pspace [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Who&#8217;s Looking to Learn How To Play Piano or simply improve their Piano Technique?<br />
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<p>At one time the thought of learning piano or even just trying to improve your piano technique online would have been ridiculous but as web video technology has moved on it&#8217;s now a valid alternative for the discerning student..<br />
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Finding the Best piano lessons online is quite a challenge for the novice musician and the problem is more people would love to <strong>learn how to play piano</strong> but don&#8217;t always have the money available to pay for private piano lessons so<strong> </strong>being able to study piano tchniques online at a much cheaper rate is a great alternative option. Why buy expensive Piano Books offline when you can buy a whole Piano Technique Course for the same money and teach your <strong>Child Piano</strong> as you&#8217;re learning yourself?</p>
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<p><span style="text-align: justify;">Finding the best course for piano techniques is a tricky thing to do for the novice. <em><strong>You need to be a pianist <span style="text-decoration: underline;">already</span></strong> to be able to judge which  piano course will give you the best piano lessons and tips, right?</em></span></p>
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<h2><strong><span style="color: #800000;">This is where I come in.</span></strong></h2>
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<p><strong><strong><span style="color: #0066ff; font-size: medium;">I&#8217;m an experienced pianist as can be seen in the video in the popup.<br />
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<p><span style="text-align: justify;">Deciding to do something about the demand for easy piano lessons online I spent<strong> </strong>a couple of months<strong> </strong>in the summer of 2009 (the concert season always goes quieter for me in the summer) studying all the &#8220;Improve your Piano Technique&#8221; courses available</span>.</p>
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<p>I was looking for several different  <strong><em>&#8220;must haves &#8221; </em></strong>in all these online piano courses and to my surprise many of the courses I looked at fell by the wayside for more then a few of the criteria.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">The criteria I considered were:</span></strong></p>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #800000;">The Price:</span></strong>This was certainly a consideration but not the most important as all the &#8220;learn how to play piano online&#8221; courses I  investigated were certainly cheaper then traditional private lessons.</div>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Video:</span></strong><span style="text-align: justify;">Any respectable piano technique course would have to include video piano lessons and obviously this was an important consideration as the main reason I feel I can recommend online courses is the advancement in web video technology.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Audio:</strong></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><strong> When trying to learn how to play piano</strong> it&#8217;s very important to be able to hear what you <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>should</em></span> be sounding like. This is why teaching in person has been the only realistic method until now. There had to be plenty of audio examples in any &#8220;piano lessons  online&#8221; course for it to get past my demands for this criteria.</span></div>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Child AND Adult Friendly: </span></strong><span style="text-align: justify;">As probably <strong>80%</strong> of child piano lessons enquiries are Parents trying to help their children learn piano it was important that any &#8220;piano lessons online&#8221; course I recommend should be in simple enough terms so that a child can progress easily and yet I didn&#8217;t want the course to be &#8220;talking down&#8221; to the adult pupils either. The best private teachers know the best methods for helping children learn piano and so should the best Piano techniques Courses.</span></div>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Diversity of Styles: </span></strong>Everybody has their own type of favorite music. I felt it imperative that everybody has the same chance of success doing a lpiano techniques course regardless of their personal taste in Music.</div>
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<h3><strong>The two courses providing the Best </strong><strong>Piano Lessons Online WERE: </strong></h3>
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<h3>To see a comprehensive review of either of these &#8220;Piano Technique Courses&#8221; courses please click the Review Boxes on the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right</span> hand side.</h3>
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		<title>Rocket Piano Course &#8211; An independent Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rocket Piano course is a series of eBooks, games, and mp3 audio files. The ebooks that come with this course cover a very wide range of piano lessons. They eBooks offer instruction for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Other topics covered are music notation, finger techniques and exercises and lessons on how to play [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="/rocket-piano/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9" style="margin: 5px;" title="Rocket Piano Course" src="http://www.learntoplaypiano.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rocketpiano-box-260x300.jpg" alt="Rocket Piano Course" width="260" height="300" /></a>The Rocket Piano course is a series of eBooks, games, and mp3 audio files. The ebooks that come with this course cover a very wide range of piano lessons. They eBooks offer instruction for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Other topics covered are music notation, finger techniques and exercises and lessons on how to play gospel and jazz music.</p>
<p>Many of the lessons included audio recording but no video. The videos that are included with the course are not songs. They are mostly a view from over the shoulders of a player showing a certain technique.</p>
<p>The games are a really neat part of this course they cover sight-reading, pitch recognition and chord identification.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Rocket Piano does offer e-mail support and their response was very quick and helpful when I sent them an e-mail.</strong></span></h3>
<p>Even though Rocket Piano offers some really great piano lesson materials the product does not have the ability to track your progress and obviously can&#8217;t give a student feedback on their playing.</p>
<h3><strong>In the end when considering this course is very inexpensive ($39.95) I think it&#8217;s a great value for the money.</strong></h3>
<p>If you can afford it then the hard copy version of the course is probably more practical. It is quite a bit more expensive at $199.95 but does offer a much more convenient way of learning the course and of course you never have to worry about transferring files and all that stuff when you change your computer or even worse worry about losing the course completely should your computer die on you before you have a chance to transfer the files. As I said it is more expensive but still very reasonable compared to the expense of live private piano lessons.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Rocket Piano also offer some pretty good bonuses!</span></h3>
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<td width="442"><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Super Bonus #1 &#8211; The &#8216;Rocket Piano Metronome:</span> &#8216;</strong>The Rocket Piano Metronome is designed using traditional metronome sound and style and allows the user to set a <em>click tempo between 40BP&#8230;. <a href="/rocket-piano" target="_blank">click here to learn more. </a></em></td>
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<td style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Super Bonus #2 – &#8216;Jayde Musica Pro&#8217;</strong></span><strong><span style="color: #993300;">:</span> J</strong>ayde Musica brings enjoyment to the otherwise monotonous task of learning how to read music. A Great addition to supplement my own <a href="/free-online-music-reading-course.html" target="_blank">FREE How To Read Music Course!</a></td>
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<td style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Super Bonus #3 – &#8216; Chordinator&#8217;</strong><strong> </strong>:</span> <strong><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Chordinator -</em></span></strong> Teaches you how to read piano chords off the musical staff, while having a lot of fun in the process!</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Super Bonus #4 &#8216;Advanced Learning Techniques for Piano&#8217;</strong>&#8216;:</span><strong><span style="color: #800000;"> </span></strong>Using advanced learning techniques, you can <strong>cut your learning time in half</strong>. See a sample passage from this fantastic e-book on the <a href="/rocket-piano" target="_blank">Rocket Piano Website</a>:</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify;" valign="top"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Super Bonus #5 &#8216;Perfect Your Pitch Pro&#8217;:</strong></span><strong><span style="color: #800000;"> </span></strong>Everybody has their own type of favorite music. I felt it imperative that everybody has the same chance of success doing a learning piano course regardless of their personal taste in Music.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify;" valign="top"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>NEW</strong><strong> Secured Bonus  &#8211; &#8217;30 day access to SongPond: </strong></span>With SongPond you use video lessons taught by professional music instructors to guide you to play songs from a big range of artists including: ‘Lionel Riche’, ‘Diana Ross’, ‘<strong>Elton John</strong>’, ‘Sara Bareilles’, ‘Christna   Agueilera’, ‘Celine Dion’ and 100s more!</td>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>I would act now because Rocket Piano is on offer at the moment and is FANTASTIC VALUE at<br />
<span style="color: #008000;">$39.95</span> for the Complete Course!</strong></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/rocket-piano" target="_blank">Get More Information about Rocket Piano Here.</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="/face-off-piano-for-all-v-rocket-piano.html" target="_self"><strong>Get My conclusion and Best Advice here:</strong></a></h2>
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