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Your twenties and your seventies need different encouragement, different songs and a different plan. Choose your decade, and start the free course whenever you are ready.
You can learn almost anything from a screen. Piano is the one skill where the screen quietly teaches your hands to do the wrong thing. Here is how to avoid that, for free.
Read this page →You do not need an hour a day. You need twenty focused minutes and someone who tells you what to do with them.
Read this page →If you stopped at twelve, or never started, this is the right moment. You understand music better than you did then, and you can practice without anyone standing over you.
Read this page →The children are older, the calendar has room, and the song you have wanted to play for years is still waiting. This is the course built for you.
Read this page →Retirement gives you the one thing a pianist needs most: unhurried time. This course gives you the order in which to use it.
Read this page →At this age you know exactly which music matters to you. The piano can be the way to make it yours.
Read this page →Reading music and playing with both hands is a skill most adults around you do not have. Within weeks you notice a change you can hear, and that is what keeps people practicing.
A private half hour that is yours, the songs you have always loved under your own fingers, and a way to switch off that is not a screen.
The person who can sit down and play, properly, at a family evening or a party is remembered. It is a skill, earned, and nobody can take it away.
What adult students say about Dr. Maria Pisarenko as their teacher · 5.0★ on Yelp, 4.9★ on Google.
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“I've spent years struggling to find the passion to stick with piano, and I finally found a teacher who exceeded any expectations I had for myself. Dr. Pisarenko's No Red Button philosophy has transformed me from a timid perfectionist into a player with realistic goals, a clear understanding of what it takes to achieve them, and a step by step path to actualize my version of success with the piano.”
— Sterling D., adult student · Yelp
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“After being away from piano lessons for 15 years, I'd always wanted to start up again... Dr. Pisarenko is a great instructor for me. She's kind and patient and encouraging... very reasonable rates and top notch instruction. She's the best!”
— Guillo L., returning adult student · Yelp
★★★★★
“I took piano lessons for a few years as a kid... Dr Pisarenko has been wonderful!!! She is very patient, very flexible with scheduling and I have learned so much from her in such a short period of time!”
— Sarah K., adult beginner · Yelp
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Whatever your age, you are learning without a teacher beside you, you have limited time, and you want to play real music soon. Online Piano University is built around exactly that: a free, ordered course, twenty-minute lessons, and feedback on your own playing from a teacher who has spent a career with adult beginners.
I am Dr. Maria Pisarenko, DMA. If you are not sure where to start, write to me.
I am writing a piano method book for adults who teach themselves, built on the same order as these lessons: sound first, then the hand, then the page. A free note-reading practice app is also in development. Both are works in progress, and anyone on my email list hears first. Join the list or see the books and gear I recommend now.
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The best age is the one you are in. Children and adults learn differently, and adults bring focus, patience and a clear idea of the music they love.
Yes, if the lessons are in order and teach the sound and the hand, not only which key to press. The free course here has 41 lessons, and you can send a recording for feedback.
Each age page lists music from that decade. Tell me the one you want and I will point you to the lessons that lead to it.
Online Piano University is run by one teacher. I read every message and listen to every recording myself.
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