Have you ever dreamed about being able to use the piano with complete freedom - to express yourself?
To play anything you feel like, on the spot.
It might surprise you that this is not nearly as hard as it may seem.
Not with the right approach, that is.
It requires a few things: understanding, practice, discipline and a clear path to follow.
A plan that tells you exactly what to do and when to do it.
Without it, the process can be overwhelming.
Chord Piano Formula's *NEW* MasterClass Bootcamp provides this support - showing, guiding, holding you accountable and making sure you actually follow through.
It will fast-track your growth and save you years of frustrating trial and error.
Whatever you wish to play - with a scalable lesson-plan, exercises & assignments and selecting your own music to personalize your journey; plus accountability built right into its 12-step BootCamp, Chord Piano Formula shows you exactly what to do when.
Guiding you every step of the way, we’ll demystify music, take out any guesswork and learn exactly what makes pro players sound like pro players - and how you can use these qualities to improve all of your playing - so you can focus on what you want to learn in the fastest, most convenient way possible
Every week you'll receive an email with detailed instructions + link to the online course, where you'll find that week's lesson, exercises, assignment and workshops (2 per week).
During the week, you'll practice your newfound skills using the scalable exercises and dive deeper into the main lesson's subjects using music of your own choosing.
With the accountability course to support you through the journey, personal assignments and class-like workshops - we've taken out all the guesswork and paved the clearest path to playing anything you want in the shortest amount of time possible.
Twelve weekly classes with demonstrations, exercises and hands-on musical breakdowns - all completely scalable - is where you'll get your hands dirty and mind spinning with all the new musical ideas.
With Chord Piano Formula, we'll deconstruct and take a look at how music is built. From 6 layers.
Each of those layers goes gradually deeper into more sophisticated levels of playing.
The fun part? Learning to work with those layers allows you to scale any tune - either to fit your exact level, or to make it even more interesting than the original. That's playing freely.
You'll learn not just how to play something in a specific song, but how to use effective musical traits in all of your playing.
Chord Piano Formula Diamond is a synergistic "lifetime-course-access" bundle of integrated programs, consisting out of:
1: The Chord Piano BluePrint (what you have now); 2: Chord Piano Mastery - with:
a: The Chord Piano MasterClass BootCamp ("LikeLive" Ed.); b: The Chord Piano Accountability Course. c: Chord Piano Mastery Vault; d. (exclusive bonus) The Premium Songs Library; e: Unique, Crazy, Mind-Blowing Bonus Courses.
All course materials - including workshops, streaming videos, audios, transcripts, handouts and add-on modules - are within the online student environment.
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These 5 mini courses 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.
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 9 mini courses teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These 4 mini courses will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These 3 mini courses will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These 2 mini courses 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.
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 4 mini courses 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.
Many people consider scales (the "sub" layer) to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. These 4 mini courses 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.
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” These 5 mini courses 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.
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 9 mini courses teach you the way real musicians play, using the full harmonic spectrum, which opens the door to playing full and rich-sounding.
Unfortunately, for most people, creating flowing piano parts is like trying to speak fluent Chinese - hard, at best. These 4 mini courses will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. These 3 mini courses will show you the next phase in voicing, “sophisticating” your chords to take them from juvenile to mature.
Licks, riffs, fills. Alluring to most and - as nothing but “cheap tricks” - misused by many. These 2 mini courses 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.
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 4 mini courses 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.
Many people consider scales (the "sub" layer) to be boring sequences of notes that have to be repeated endlessly, purely to create nimble-fingeredness. These 4 mini courses 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.
You can select your own interval to be guided through the entire Pop-Piano curriculum in either 12 weeks, or 12 months.
*Every "Period" can be a week or a month, depending on your available time, commitment and preference for speed or depth.
Chord Piano Formula Diamond bundles and integrates your Chord Piano BluePrint with the Chord Piano MasterClass BootCamp to create a complete, synergetic experience much greater than the sum of its parts.
Learn the Chord Piano concepts.
The BootCamp holds weekly lessons, exercises, materials, assignment and workshops to help you study and implement.
Even thought the Chord Piano BootCamp + BluePrint allows you to choose and play ANY song you want, we've added a bunch of song courses that demonstrate the concepts. Explained and animated in Piano Couture's typical Chord-Piano style.
Our lessons are hosted in Piano Lingo - the Piano Hackers members' area, where you can find whichever tune you are looking for with speed and ease.
Elton & Billy are Masters...
Masters of Chord Piano.
As two of the founders of modern pop-piano, they have managed to create and record some of the most inspiring contemporary piano parts.
So, how do they do it?
How do they transform seemingly simple chords into their magical piano accompaniments, riffs and intros? How do they think? What do they play exactly?
That is what these Play Like Elton & Play Like Billy BootCamps show - step by step.
These step-by-step programs are built around four hands-on workshops.
Each week we'll tackle a specific trademark stylistic layer of Sir Elton, or Billy Joel's iconic sound [chords & voicings - patterns, techniques & feel - signature fills & licks - overall style] using one or more of their fantastic songs as vessels to exemplify and demonstrate.
People have paid up to €999 to attend a live edition of JUST ONE of the NINE* BootCamps included with this offer, with the downside of having to wait for their actual cohort to start, show up on specific times for classes etc...
But you don't want to wait. You want to start NOW. Right?
That's why we have decided to make this *scalable* (i.e. suitable for any level) program digitally available in streaming "self-serve" format while preserving virtually all of its live benefits.
It allows you to hop on board now.
Start learning what you want to play today.
Re-watch and re-do the program as often as you like (scaling up and getting more advanced with every go-round).
Convenience up, price down.
Now THAT's a deal
*the MasterClass BootCamp is a merger of: the OnRamp BootCamp (3 prior editions), the Platinum BootCamp (3 prior editions) and Singer/Songwriters' BootCamp (1 prior edition) + you'll now get the Play Like Elton & Play Like Billy BootCamps included as a FREE bonus too - that's 9 prior programs that were previously sold for up to €999 each... an absolutely insane value.
Get a complete, step-by-step, professional-musician-guided, always-accessible and -reviewable program worth more than 10 years (€24999+) of "normal" piano lessons - at less than 1% of the price.
The Ultimate Pop-Piano Coaching Program
The "start right away in stead of waiting for the next cohort" edition of our flagship Chord Piano Formula program, which includes:
The Self-Serve (aka "recorded edition") of the premium "Chord Piano BootCamp MasterClass" program (exclusive LIFETIME access - not available anywhere else) - access to the 12 week workshops-driven, step-by-step "success path", email coaching & accountability course, online master-course with handouts, downloadable materials, assignments and workshop recordings - a merger of 7(!) previously held BootCamps that were sold for up to €999 each + seamless integration with your Chord Piano BluePrint program.
This program will show you exactly what to do, step-by-step to implement the Chord Piano strategies, tactics and techniques.
On top of this flagship program, you'll also get access to these included FREE bonuses:
Whenever you want to!
To bring down costs, make it more accessible, and offer action takers who want to hit the ground running the option not to have to wait until the next cohort starts, we have decided to make the program available in digital streaming format.
It is still presented to be taken in the 8 week time-frame, to give you the benefits of the live program, but with the added benefits of taking it whenever it fits your schedule.
We've still kept all the guiding facets that make this program so step-by-step and valuable active.
As soon as you're ready, you'll activate the program. Then it takes 8 weeks to complete. After that, because the program is scalable to your level at the time, you can choose to retake it however often you like, each time at a gradually more advanced level.
On top of that, we encourage you to join us for the next LIVE cohort by taking advantage of the EarlyBird Enrollment discount to get the full benefits of the interactivity when we do run in it live.
By having taken the course in "self-serve" format, you'll come prepared 🙂
All of my teaching, including all premium content you'll find inside of Piano Lingo (our premium online Pop-Piano academy) is based on the Hack the Piano methodology - as is this course.
It is the "application & implementation" - actually DOING vs. only learning theory.
This course can either function as a perfect introduction, or as a more specialized deep-dive into the world of chord-piano, putting Piano Hacking into practice in a guided, structured, step-by-step way.
How to play anything you want, by ear.
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.
At the time of writing Google states that the current price converts to: $299
Please note that we cover any taxes.
That's the beauty of this self-serve edition: all live sessions are recorded! The recordings can be accessed in streaming format (meaning you can also pause, rewind, fast-forward etc. all things that were not possible when the sessions were held live) in the online master-course as often, and for as long as you like!
Was it more fun to join the sessions live?
Yes, but let's just say both formats have their benefits.
Is it possible to get an almost equal amount of value out of the program using the recordings of these live sessions? Absolutely - hence this offer.
Lifetime access to the MasterClass BootCamp and all its components.
One full year to Mastery and the additional (bonus) content. After the year you can keep access to this content for a heavily discounted subscription fee of only 9/mo or 99/yr (only available for people that upgrade on this page).
Please note that regardless of what you decide to do by then, with this upgrade you will keep lifetime access to the MasterClass BootCamp and all components, which is NOT possible anywhere outside of this page.
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.
The nice thing about a streaming edition like this version of the course, is that you can then redo the course later, going up to the next level.
Everything you'll need to know is available - either in the BootCamp itself, or in the BluePrint.
Everything you already know is easy to skip, or adapt to make it suitable for a level more advanced.
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
"This special offer will help you have success faster.
It's not for everybody, but for those of you that are serious about learning how to play pop-piano, this unique opportunity will give you an unprecedented level of guidance, accountability and structure - adding huge insights to your musical understanding.
I've set up this new, special "self-serve" edition for you action takers that want to hit the ground running.
With this unique edition you won't have to wait for the next cohort to start.
You can begin right away. Today.
Here's a quick recap of everything you're getting:
and all of that for the low price of...
JUST €299
But you must act RIGHT NOW - when you leave this page this offer will be gone forever.
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