the original pop-piano method For (Aspiring) Singers, Songwriters and Pop-Pianists
Play like
Without Ever Needing Sheet Music
1. Learn our chord-piano method
to fundamentally understand no-sheets piano
2. Hear a song you love
your all-time favorites, or any new tune
3. Sit down at any piano and play it
sounding authentic, without needing sheets.
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 sheets were developed for "traditional" music (and are unnecessarily hard to decipher when it comes to playing popular music)
- 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)
- You'll never sound like your favorite artists (ever seen them look at sheets?)
- You'll stay forever lost without your sheets at hand
Hack the Piano is...
- Pop Piano (playing like pop music's great Singers/Songwriters/Accompanists - Elton, Billy etc.. )
- That "real-deal" sound, like the piano on your favorite records
- Understanding music → playing anything you want, by heart
- Chords-based: Piano without needing sheets
- Made by Pop-Conservatory-graduated, professional musicians
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What Our Students 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.
Music as a language | The BluePrint
Learn Our 7-Part Framework to Play Like Your Favorite Artists
Musical Structures
How to Use Music's Building Blocks to Play Anything By Heart
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These lessons lift the cloud to show you the fundament hiding below and how to use that framework to quickly learn, remember and play any song by heart.
Chords
How to Build, Grab and "Say" Music's "Words"
Most budding pianists don’t sound like the real deal at all, because they approach music on a by-note-basis. Real musicians play by Chords, which is why they sound so full.
These lessons teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Patterns
How to Add Rhythm and Flow to Your Playing
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These lessons will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Scales
How to Use Music's "Dialects" To Add Color & Flair
Many people consider scales to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. The lessons in this "sub" layer, will show you that scales are far from boring when you use them in the correct ways - as musical dialects for a profound musical understanding.
Extensions
How to Spice Up and Sophisticate Your Chords
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These lessons will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Embellishments
How to "Perk Up" Your Playing With Licks & Fills
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These lessons will show you the correct ways, mindset, origin and application of any type of improvisation - from a quick grace note, to a full-blown solo.
Re:Harmonization
How to Use Music's Building Blocks to (re)Write Music
Expressing yourself through music shouldn’t be a mystery. Sadly though coming up with anything not written on paper remains a guessing game for most people. These lessons will teach the different value each chord has within a song and how you can use that to your advantage when composing yourself - either when improvising, adapting a known tune, or when writing your own, full-blown songs.
Musical Structures
How to Use Music's Building Blocks to Play Anything By Heart
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These lessons lift the cloud to show you the fundament hiding below and how to use that framework to quickly learn, remember and play any song by heart.
Chords
How to Build, Grab and "Say" Music's "Words"
Most budding pianists don’t sound like the real deal at all, because they approach music on a by-note-basis. Real musicians play by Chords, which is why they sound so full.
These lessons teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Patterns
How to Add Rhythm and Flow to Your Playing
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These lessons will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Scales
How to Use Music's "Dialects" To Add Color & Flair
Many people consider scales to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. The lessons in this "sub" layer, will show you that scales are far from boring when you use them in the correct ways - as musical dialects for a profound musical understanding.
Extensions
How to Spice Up and Sophisticate Your Chords
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These lessons will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Embellishments
How to "Perk Up" Your Playing With Licks & Fills
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These lessons will show you the correct ways, mindset, origin and application of any type of improvisation - from a quick grace note, to a full-blown solo.
Re:Harmonization
How to Use Music's Building Blocks to (re)Write Music
Expressing yourself through music shouldn’t be a mystery. Sadly though coming up with anything not written on paper remains a guessing game for most people. These lessons will teach the different value each chord has within a song and how you can use that to your advantage when composing yourself - either when improvising, adapting a known tune, or when writing your own, full-blown songs.
your Steps to Pop-Piano
Success
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 140,000 students from all over the world Hack the Piano
Coen Modder
Professional Pop-Pianist
Roland-featured author/instructor
Founder of Piano Couture
Creator of Piano Lingo, Chord Piano Formula
& the Hack the Piano Methodology
Our Founder | Your Teacher
Hi, I'm Coen.
Like virtually anybody, 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 ...
We're Not The Only Ones Who Like The Sound Of Chord Piano
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Hack the Piano 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 vocals (including your own).
Producers
Understanding music's foundational building blocks will improve your arrangements, hooks, licks and riffs.
... and all pop-piano-enthusiasts looking to create & play arrangements just like their favorite artist (Billy, Elton, Ray, Stevie, Jamie, Alicia et. al.) do
— enjoying themselves, family or friends.
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.
hack the piano
Be Freed From Musical Constraints
Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheets while playing? Exactly.
Our "chunking" methodology focusses on learning re-usable blocks: chords & patterns, that are much like words and pronunciation in language.
Learn how styles like Pop, Soul, Blues, Funk, Hip-hop, Singer-Songwriter etc. are made, and played.
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.
Conservatory-graduated and tons of experience in the actual music business. This is how we do music.
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."
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FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
How to play anything you want, by ear and finally actually sound like the pianos on your favorite records.
We will learn Pop Piano tricks, traits and techniques to actually understand music. This works on ALL songs and you are free to choose your own songs, to do the exercises and assignments with.
Since we are Amsterdam -and thus Europe- based, you'll be charged in Euros. The dollar price depends on the current conversion rate and optionally costs your bank or credit card company charges for the conversion. These costs are outside of our control unfortunately and conversion rates vary by day.
Please note that we cover any taxes.
Everything in this program is scalable and using the 6 pillars of chord-piano, we'll deconstruct and then build everything we do back up, gradually growing in level of difficulty.
You can "stop" (stick to) the level that's challenging, but not too difficult for you, which -whatever level that might be for you- will get you sounding very close to original records you listen to.
You can then redo the course later, going up to the next level.
Everything you need to know to play and sound like your favorite pop-piano singer-songwriters is there.
Everything you already know is easy to skip, or adapt to make it suitable for a level more advanced. (plus - repetition has never hurt a soul).
With that said, select the course that fits your current situation (see their descriptions).
Let me ask you this: Have you ever seen your favorite artist look at sheet music at any of his or her performances? Exactly.
That's because they play pop-piano: piano by chords. They know their chords, harmony-theory, voicings, patterns and how to play with those. This is how they form all of their piano parts and this is exactly what you'll learn in this program too.
Chord-piano. No sheet-music (only chord-sheets every now and then).
That's not a question! 🙂
Just kidding. You can ask me anything by simply sending an email to coen@piano-couture.com