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The Proven Method For Singers/Songwriters

HACK the PIANO

Play Arrangements That Sound Like Taken Straight Off Your Favorite Pop Records ...

... by Chords, by Ear, by Heart.

By Chords | Effective Learning

Music deconstructed into word-like blocks. Easy to grasp & remember.

LEARN ONCE · RE-USE FOREVER

By Ear | No Sheets

Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at paper while playing? Exactly.

SPEAK MUSIC · SAY ANYTHING

by Heart | Music You Love

With our unique, modern approach, learn how the music you listen to works.

YOUR EFFORT · YOUR PASSION

Modern Piano Isn't Played From Sheets

ASPIRING POP-PIANISTS BEWARE

Traditional Sheets Will NOT Get You That Sound You're After

Don't try to learn modern piano parts, using an ancient system...

Traditional sheet music is outdated (and unnecessarily hard)
Learning new tunes will keep taking forever
You'll waste time and money learning an upside-down approach
You'll be playing vocal melodies (let's leave those to the singers)
Nobody will enjoy listening to your playing
You won't sound like your favorite artists (ever seen them look at sheets?)
You'll stay forever lost without your sheets at hand

Piano Hacking is...

Piano specifically for Singers/Songwriters/Accompanists
Modern (pop, soul, funk, rock, blues, r&b etc.)
Actually sounding like the piano on your favorite records
Understanding music → playing anything you want, by heart
Made by Pop-Conservatory-graduated, professional musicians
Chord Piano - Piano without needing sheets

Piano Hacking | The Modern Approach

Become Everyone's Favorite
Piano (Wo)Man.
Finally understand how to actually sound like the pianos on your favorite records ..
.. without ever needing sheets again

Chords-Based
The Modern Approach

Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheets while playing? Exactly.

Music's Building Blocks

Our "chunking" methodology focusses on learning re-usable blocks: chords & patterns, that are much like words and pronunciation in language.

Music You Love

Learn how styles like Pop, Soul, Blues, Funk, Hip-hop, Singer-Songwriter etc. are made, and played.

True Understanding

We use a rhythm- and harmony-theory approach - the founding pillars of all music. So you learn to sound exactly like the record, or improvise to create your very own unique rendition.

By Professional Musicians

Conservatory-graduated and tons of experience in the actual music business. This is how we do music.

Piano Like a Guitarist
The Campfire Phenomenon

Isn't it strange that guitarists never read traditional sheets, while even beginners are often able to play dozens of songs by heart, with everyone singing along? Learn that "guitarists' approach."

Piano Hacking Is Perfect For (Aspiring):

Singers/Songwriters

Learn how music is built and how to use those building blocks to play and create your very own renditions.

Accompanists

Whether you'd like to play with others in a band, or accompany anyone's singing (including your own).

Producers

Understanding music's foundational building blocks will improve your arrangements, hooks, licks and riffs.

... and all piano-enthusiasts looking to play arrangements as they are actually played by artist like Billy, Elton, Ray, Stevie, Jamie, Alicia et. al. - enjoying themselves, friends or family.

the Piano Hacker's Journey

how Piano Hacking

Works

1. Learn the Framework

Get OnRamped

Chords + Patters are the equivalent of Words & Pronunciation - that's the Pop-Piano approach.

2. Internalize the 7 Layers

Implement Chord Piano Formula

Our Roland-featured program will show you how to get serious and speak music.

3. Gain Mastery

Pro Community

You will have all the tools and knowledge to create & play your favorite arrangements.

We Hear You

We know How It feels to invest countless hours deciphering Sheet-Music ...

... only to find out you don't sound like the "real deal" at all ...

That's why we built this Roland-featured system ...
... that has already helped over 135,000 students from all over the world Hack the Piano

Coen Modder

Roland-featured author/instructor
Founder of Piano Couture
Creator of the Hack the Piano Methodology

Your Instructor

Hi, I'm Coen.

Like virtually everybody, when I started out playing piano at age 4 I was "forced" down the traditional path of learning how to read sheet music too. That didn't work out ...

... and so I quit.

Many years later, at age 17, when I saw my fellow classmates playing like rock-stars at our yearly school concert, I promised myself I was going to learn to play too. So, I went back to that old way of playing from sheet music, which -again- did NOT make me sound like my favorite artists AT ALL... and I almost gave up entirely.

Then, following the guidance of a talented guitarist-friend of mine, I taught myself how to play piano using his approach: by Chords. 4 years later I got accepted into the Conservatory of Amsterdam (major Pop-Piano / Vocals).

Now, over the course of 18 years of playing, I've performed on stage extensively -both solo and in multiple bands- written and recorded with many different artists, became a Roland-featured instructor & one of the top-5 Youtube piano teachers in the world and taught over 135,000 people worldwide how to play piano without sheets.

Hack the Piano is the methodology and backbone of all my teaching.

It will teach you the exact ways I used to accomplish all of the above and create beautiful piano accompaniments that sound just like those of my favorite musical heroes - Elton, Billy, Stevie - without ever having needed a single sheet.

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What Fellow Piano Hackers Say:

You took the mystery out of what I hear when I listen to contemporary piano and that’s not to say that your approach is good just for pop piano. I think it’s THE best way to learn piano!

It's such a great program, because it is very organized and explains the information in a logical way. It is great because you can repeat the lessons until you get it down completely.

…if you want to sit at any piano and play popular music for your family and friends-, if you want a basis to create music towards becoming a professional musician-, no matter the reason you are coming to the piano this is the program you want to take.

This is most likely to be the best that you'll find when it comes to learning how to play the piano. I've been taught classically for over 10 yrs now but was jealous in seeing a guitarist being able to pick up songs very easily, this program will enable you to that. Its top notch.

I can't say enough about how easy to understand, and well put together this program is. I started letting my kids, ages 9& 11, work on this program and ended up having to buy two more keyboards because they were always playing and learning lol

..a breath of fresh air. Coen offers thorough piano theory along with chord knowledge backed up with superb videos providing visual demonstrations of the subject of the lesson. He also provides wonderful tips for effective practice. This is not work, this is fun.

This method has saved me time and effort as it has been well written so not to confuse the reader. It opens a pathway of consciousness into the world of music. Wow I am glad I purchased this and so will you be if you are looking to fulfill your piano dreams. Worth every penny.

The No-Sheets Approach

Piano Like A Guitarist

Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheet music?

Probably not, right?

That's because modern music isn't played from sheets.

Actually, since music is in fact a language, learning to read before you can speak seems completely backwards - whatever style we're talking about.

Guitarists get this. They first learn to strum chords - the equivalent of saying some words.

99% of them keeps approaching music this way forever, learning how to build riffs, licks and even entire solos out of those fundamental musical "chunks" called Chords (& Patterns).

But while guitarists are having all the fun, piano is still stuck in this outdated system.

Here we do things differently.

We teach our students how to understand the musical language and "say" (play) anything they want, using its foundational concepts - chords (music's "words") and patterns (music's "pronunciation") - just like guitarists.

You'll learn building blocks that can be re-used in all music - so you never waist time deciphering lines-and-dots on paper, blindly regurgitating, but always grow as a musician.

We call this Piano Hacking.

It's the ultimate shortcut to finally actually sounding like you want - by ear.

And - beneficially - it's the actual language ALL pro musicians speak too.

Not just piano-players. ALL musician.

So if you'd want to play something that's originally written for another instrument ...

... or play together with other musicians ...

This is how we do music.

Don't settle for information-overload, learning stuff you're never going to use anyway or one-trick pony approaches that only teach you one song without any context.

Start Hacking the Piano today to learn how music works and be able to apply what you learn on any tune you want - finally actually sounding like your musical heroes while cutting the time to learn new songs by 90%.

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by chords, by ear, by heart.

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A final note from Coen

Piano Lingo - the pop-language

Sheet-music was developed hundreds of years ago...

A time when there were no other ways to record a tune that showed you how to play it (or let you even hear it)

Today, we live in a day and age where music is written, played and recorded differently.

So - why revert to that ancient system, when you want to play pop music and can use modern means to learn?

Why not learn the same approach your favorite pop-musicians use?

That's Piano Hacking..

... a uniquely different system that teaches the actual approach that professional modern musicians use too ...

... an approach built on understanding music's foundational building blocks Chords ("what" to play) and Patterns ("how" to play).

It's much like learning a language - the language of music

Chords = words, Patterns = pronunciation.

And like with any language, you'll understand and be able to repeat what someone else says (plays).