Top Piano Sites
Each of these sites were rated based on the following factors, which are needed for any successful and engaging online music lesson website:
- Ability to communicate other students to trade notes, chord progressions, help
- Ability to communicate with instructor via email, video seminars, materials, etc.
- Video Online Piano Music Tutorials or classes and not just audio.
- Email correspondences with tips and tricks or chords, notes and rhythm patterns.
- Not to expensive!!
- A good amount of Free online piano course materials.
Go Piano
www.gopiano.com/ - not a sophisticated site but teaches you the basics via some audio files.
Learning Piano Online
www.learnpianoonline.com - teaches the basics.. this site is for those who in the very beginning stage of learning piano. Those who want to grow from beginner, you should use a different site.
Hear and Play By Ear
www.hearandplay.com - this seems to be the most infomative online piano class provider of them all. They offer a forum for there customers. Customers can even setup profiles. They also offer a series of DVDs so you can grow as a piano player and Video Webinars in which you can see the teacher teaching LIVE on cam.
Piano Tricks
www.pianotricks.com/ - cool site and caters to future jazz players. The owner gives props to hearandplay.com.
Free Online Piano Lessons
www.free-online-piano-lessons.com/ - just a good resource to supplement a online piano course you would pay for.
Play Piano
www.playpiano.com/ - cool site. however there are alot of audio files instead of video files. I tend to need to see what the piano teacher is doing and I dont want to have a binder/paper to follow him/her. Another site that has a link to hearandplay.com
Music and You
www.musicandyou.com/- this site offers lessons via a webinar. However, only the audio is heard, there is no video.