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I’m giving away this free e-book and video lesson for Ode to Joy to celebrate my new website!

Its really easy… in fact if you’ve played piano before it will probably not take you very long at all to finish the lesson.

If you’re a beginner, then this will be the perfect size lesson for you!

After you finish the lesson, please post a comment and let me know what you’d like to learn it could cover pretty much anything…

Click here to watch the Ode To Joy video

By the way, I’m giving away the Ode to Joy lessons to help promote all of the other videos on a new website called HowtoPlayFurElise.com.

It’s focused around classical music and other exercises to help give you better technique playing the piano.

If you like the free ode to joy lessons, you’ll probably also like the Fur Elise which are more in depth and other classical lessons and exercises there.

Piano is hard. It takes a ritual of practicing a little bit each day.

It’s just like an exercise routine: You won’t build muscle if you only exercise for one day and you won’t learn many songs if you only practice for one day.

Start with 15 minutes Today

15 minutes a day adds up to almost 100 hours in a year.

Once you get in the habit of practicing, you can always practice a little bit more, but just getting started is the hardest part!

A Pianist with No Arms

I can’t imagine what Liu Wei had to go through. He lost his arms as a kid from an electrical accident, but still he has learned to play the piano incredibly well.

Set a Goal for Yourself!

If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, it will take a little work.

When you get frustrated and feel like giving up, watch this video of Liu Wei.

You can accomplish anything you can dream up.

We’ll Hold You Accountable!

Post a comment below to let everyone know some of your goals for this year and all the fastpianolessons.com readers will help hold you accountable!

We’ll check back in a month so you can update your progress! It could be piano related, or any other personal goal you have.

Maybe a New Year’s resolution that you have already abandoned. It usually takes multiple attempts.

This looks like a lot of fun! You can play a keytar that you can stand with or sit down with… About 20% through the video they show someone actually playing the keyboard part for bohemian rhapsody… it didn’t look like the right notes which was kind of a let down… UPDATE: i played along with the song they had and it looks like all the notes were in the right key and it was a good simplified version of bohemian rhapsody. So if you got really good at rockband3, you could then sit at a real piano and play it!!!

but I have a feeling this will make a lot more people want to play piano than guitar because of the challenge on rock band!!! I’m excited! I think we have to get one of these for the piano school in seattle

This is a great piano lick to learn and then take to other keys! We are actually putting two different licks together for one monster lick. Just make sure you can watch all videos in the player below… You can switch between videos by using the side arrow buttons in the youtube view.

1. Learn lick #1 in video 1.
2. Learn lick #2 in video 2.
3. Put them together in video 3.

These are also shown on the handout. If you’re a good reader, you’ll be able to learn this faster by reading the music and then watching video #3 just to make sure you’re on the right track! Video #1 & #2 break it down a little more step by step.

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF SHEET MUSIC HERE:

PDF DOWNLOAD LINK: Easy Blues Piano Lessons-blues-4ths-lick

Here are the 3 licks we cover in the video:

Here is a favorite quote of mine:
"The journey of 1000 miles begins with one small step" - Lao-Tzu

Don’t feel like you have to get to the end of your journey right now… just keep taking small steps.

I can teach you a new trick on piano in about 10-15min, its just a small nugget… But if you start collecting these nuggets, pretty soon you’re rich!

In other words, practice for 5min here, 10min there. Don’t get overwhelmed by how much knowledge there is out there! Just focus on the next step. …every once in a while, take a breath and look back at how far you’ve traveled.

You’ll be amazed.