Elton, Billy, Ray, Bruce, Jamie, John, Paul, Alicia, Freddie, Prince, Stevie...
Chord Piano Formula Diamond
Professional Pop-Pianist
Roland-featured author/instructor
Founder of Piano Couture
Creator of Piano Lingo, Chord Piano Formula
& the Hack the Piano Methodology
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 ...
... 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 138,000 people worldwide how to play piano without sheets.
Hack the Piano is the methodology and backbone of all my playing & teaching.
It's the definitive guide on how I accomplished all of the above without ever reading a single sheet.
Chord Piano Formula is Hack the Piano evolved into a fully guided, Deluxe Online Training Experience.
It takes my premium online course "the Chord Piano BluePrint" and combines it with hands-on, step-by-step guidance in the form of workshops and BootCamps.
Not only will it 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, but it will also help you actually implement it all.
For everyone it’s different…
For some it means being able to just sit down at any piano and "be the piano-(wo)man" - entertaining the crowd, accompanying your vocals or their singing along, blasting out the occasional impressive lick...
For others it means creating your own arrangements, whether for existing songs to make covers and post them to Youtube, or even composing your very own music, in the studio or with a band...
and yet others … are just looking to enjoy yourselves and/or your friends and family in the comfort of your own home.
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, and actually sound like your musical heroes.
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 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.
Chord Piano Formula is created to help (aspiring) singers/songwriters, accompanists & Pop-Pianists:
Chords + Patters are the equivalent of Words & Pronunciation - that's the Pop-Piano approach.
Build, voice & tastefully extend any Chord on the piano - the vocabulary you need.
Turn any set of Chords into an engaging, flowing, moving, grooving, embellished piano part.
Create your very own arrangements & embellished, re-harmonized interpretations.
what you'll learn
Playing music shouldn’t be so hard to learn. Sadly though, for many people, it forever remains a “cloud of sound.” Structures 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. Chords show 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. Patterns will teach the building blocks that allow you to turn any set of notes into a flowing, grooving, moving piano part.
how you'll learn
The Core Curriculum: Bite-sized, self-paced video/text/audio lessons for you to easily comprehend & internalize.
How to play modern piano arrangements like a pop-musician, by Chords, Ear & Heart - using Chords & Patterns and never need sheet music again.
How to build, voice & tastefully extend any Chord on the piano.
Learn how to maturely color & voice Chords, turning standard triads into hip-sounding ear-candy.
How to turn any set of Chords into an engaging, flowing, moving, grooving piano part.
Make Chords sound like an actual pro arrangement.
The 12-week/month Chord Piano MasterClass implementation BootCamp & "Mastery" collection that come included with this diamond program provide you with extra classes, workshops & guidance to implement the material and put it in practice on real music of your choosing.
what you'll learn
Unfortunately, most chords played on piano still sound bland. Extending & advanced voicing 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.
how you'll learn
The Core Curriculum: Bite-sized, self-paced video/text/audio lessons for you to easily comprehend & internalize.
Advanced tricks-of-the trade to transform any chord progression into your own uniquely embellished composition.
Harmonization (which Chord works when & why, and how to use that to create your own compositions), soulful/jazzy ways to extend & voice chords + embellishing with licks & fills.
The 12-week/month Chord Piano MasterClass implementation BootCamp & "Mastery" collection that come included with this diamond program provide you with extra classes, workshops & guidance to implement the material and put it in practice on real music of your choosing.
workshops-driven hyper-growth programs
4-week program to playing pop-piano without needing sheets.
6-week program to playing mature pop-arrangements, freely, by heart.
4-week program uncovering the secrets to creating arrangements like your favorite pop-piano singer/songwriters.
Choose your preferred 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 - your choice - depending on your available time, commitment and preference for speed or depth.
chord piano - elton & billy-style
Elton John & Billy Joel 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 - how to apply the Chord Piano BluePrint's concepts, to play piano parts EXACTLY like them - 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 these NINE included BootCamps, 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 *drastically* down.
Now THAT's a deal
Extra Hands-On Workshops, Practice Sessions & Song-Breakdowns. In-depth lessons where we analyze real music to see what we can learn, steal and add to our vocabulary for re-use.
Applying all Chord Piano concepts.
Improve your groove, technique & ears.
Phrases to use as fills & embellishments.
Learn how music is built and how to use those building blocks to play and create your very own renditions.
Whether you'd like to play with others in a band, or accompany anyone's singing (including your own).
Understanding music's foundational building blocks will improve your arrangements, hooks, licks and riffs.
You have a choice to make ...
Do what you’ve been doing (or worse, do nothing at all). You know where that will lead. Is that really where you want to go?
Or take a new action, and get a new result:
Finally understand what makes the Eltons, the Billies, the Stevies, the Pauls, the Jamies or any other favorite artist of yours sound the way they do and play anything you want, by ear - without ever being a slave to your sheet music again.
Which do you really want for yourself?
I hope you enjoy this program!
I can't wait to welcome you inside.
Yours Truly,
In case you're one of those people (like me) who just scroll to the end of the page to find the TL;DR - here's the deal:
Chord Piano Formula Diamond ed. is our deluxe program.
It consists out of a few different, step-by-step, integrated parts.
the Chord Piano BluePrint is the core of the curriculum - a self-paced course that teaches (aspiring) singers, songwriters, pop-pianists and accompanists how to play arrangements just like the pop-piano greats (think Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Jamie Cullum, et. al.).
You'll sound like them because this course will teach you how to think like them and approach piano in the actual way they do too - by Chords, by Ear, by Heart.
All those great players are completely free from needing sheets, and so will you be - you won't need sheets, ever again.
Just playing freely, from the heart.
Add our *NEW* fail-proof, 12-step, week-by-week or month-by-month implementation plan with our Chord Piano MasterClass BootCamp PLUS the unbelievable and unbeatable aspects of our included Chord Piano Mastery collection - that tie everything together with clear scheduling, step-by-step trajectories to follow, practice routines and so much more and....
Together they form our Chord Piano Formula Program.
This bundle-program gives you access to a Pop-Piano curriculum that represents +/- 10 years worth of music education (were they to ever teach you how this actual "real deal" approach works - which they don't) and will thus save you roughly €20000 in tuition fees.
The difference?
It will take you mere months to learn to play and sound like you've always wanted to.
Heaps of money & time saved.
(besides sounding legit and being able to create any type of rendition, on the spot... imagine the wonderful feeling of such freedom)
All of my teaching, including this premium program, you'll find inside of Piano Lingo (our premium online Pop-Piano academy) is based on the Hack the Piano methodology.
Chord Piano Formula is my complete flagship program. It represents the full bundle of what I have to offer, synergistically integrated and optimized for the fastest route to your piano success.
The Chord Piano BluePrint course represents the full core curriculum to learn to play pop-piano by Chords, Ear & Heart - i.e. play in the exact same way that your favorite artists play too.
It's a completely unique system & approach worth 10+ years of piano education (if it were taught anywhere else) that can be finished in mere months.
See the many 5-star reviews from students who keep telling us they learned more about music in weeks from this program than what they learned in their entire life from other lessons combined.
The included 12-week/month implementation MasterClass BootCamp & the rest of the Chord Piano Mastery-collection allow for a deep-dive into the world of chord-piano, putting Piano Hacking into practice in a guided, structured, step-by-step way. It will help you actually implement and integrate everything.
Hack the Piano Online is (the first) part of the Chord Piano BluePrint - our complete core self-paced curriculum - which is perfect for foundational learning. The BluePrint consists of two parts (courses): Hack the Piano Online (Bare Essential Keys to Harmony - Piano Chords Magic - Pop-Piano Patterns) & Advanced Piano Hacks. As the core curriculum it is the fundamental part of Chord Piano Formula.
Chord Piano Formula Diamond thus includes (lifetime) access to the complete BluePrint. Additionally, it also includes access to "Chord Piano Mastery" with the Chord Piano MasterClass (7 previous Chord Piano BootCamps merged - previously sold at €999 a piece - into one big "implementation program"), additional workshops, licks, and practice sessions in the Vault for advanced learning AND two premium "Play Like" BootCamps (Elton & Billy).
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.
Please note that we cover any taxes.
Kind of - yes.
After completing Hack the Piano Online, you'd have to get Advanced Piano Hacks, to complete the Chord Piano BluePrint. When you own that, you'll have the chance to get Mastery (including the MasterClass and Vault) too.
However, there will be no way to buy the MasterClass and Mastery, only to "rent" them:
For owners of our (complete) BluePrint (Hack the Piano Online AND Advanced Piano Hacks) we have the option to subscribe to Chord Piano Mastery at a yearly subscription fee.
If you want to buy the program and get lifetime access to everything, you can only do so here on this page.
Lifetime access.
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).
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
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).
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