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Advantages of our personalized piano instruction include: • Fully customized lessons for all ages, experience levels and interests. • Extensive listings of friendly, certified teachers. • Easy access to online lesson journals. • 100% money back guarantee.

We believe music is fun and rewarding, and we've worked overtime to make sure you benefit not only from your lessons, but from the inspiring support and resources our piano instructors offer!

We hand-pick our piano teachers to give each student the best music education available. Our safe, certified instructors complete rigorous interviews, which include professional references and criminal background checks. There is nothing is more important than the safety of our students!

We offer flexibility so students can manage their lesson schedules, length and location. Our trained student counselors help you with everything from scheduling and billing to your initial communication with your teacher. All you have to worry about is enjoying your lessons!

Beginner vs Intermediate vs Expert Piano Lessons

Private piano lessons with a TakeLessons instructor are tailored to each student based on their current skill level, and goals. Beginner students get easier songs, easier exercises, and simpler techniques. From there, the difficulty increases in order to properly challenge and motivate intermediate and advanced level pianists to develop greater skills, to stretch their preconceived limitations, and to ultimately gain more satisfaction and enjoyment from the piano.

We understand advancing pianists may also have professional goals, so our teachers can counsel you to increase your chances of getting more and higher paying gigs. Who knows, someday, you too can become a TakeLessons piano instructor and get paid to teach other aspiring pianists like you. Piano Lessons for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

If you’re the type of parent who believes music can improve early childhood development, science has good news for you. A recent study suggests that piano practice can help children better and faster process music and language. Hearing different pitches and tones can help one better parse spoken words. So while every parent needs to be careful not to forcefully involve their little ones in music, sports, and other interests, parents can still take a gentler approach that stimulates joy and curiosity, and plants a seed for lifelong learning.

Piano Lessons for Kindergartners and Grade Schoolers

Science also has good news for kids older than preschool age. A Harvard study found that kids, at the average age of 6 who took 15 months of piano training show increased brain matter and structure. In other words, piano lessons can help improve motor skills, cognitive performance, and listening skills at a young age.

TakeLessons instructors are background-checked, and highly qualified to give your kids the lessons they need to stay engaged, enjoy the learning process, and to gradually and continually improve one key, one note at a time. After all, learning at a younger age yields the greatest and most long-lasting benefits.

The last thing you want to do is force a kid into playing and practicing so much that they begin to flame out and reject something as delightful as the piano.

Piano Lessons for Autism, Dyslexia, and other Special Needs

Some TakeLessons instructors specialize in teaching students with special needs. We believe that not every student learns the same way, and that every student, regardless of their special needs, is capable of becoming an excellent piano player. If you can’t find a special needs teacher near you, try searching for online teachers, to find the perfect teacher that can meet your or your child’s needs.

Piano Lessons for Teenagers and High Schoolers

The teen and tween years are the make or break years for most people, in deciding whether they’re going to stick with a childhood hobby or interest, for life. As you go through puberty, and begin preparing for life as an adult, and responsibilities pile on your plate, the first things to go tend to be the personal interests you’re passionate about, because they don’t pay the bills. Also, because they’re not an official part of your school curriculum. In other words, what was once a must-have becomes a nice-to-have.

This is why it’s important to have someone that holds you accountable for prolonging your learning and practicing, regardless of whether it’s a musical instrument, or a sport, or any other after-school matter. Someone to keep you motivated. And if you decide to make your passion a profession, someone to guide you along the way on how to find the right opportunities for paid gigs, or even a full-time career in playing the piano.

Piano Lessons for College Students

Let’s be honest, private lessons aren’t the best idea for college students who are generally tight on budget, time, and commitments. However, that doesn’t mean you should stop learning and practicing. You can still work the piano by taking classes or participating in music programs at your college. These tend to be more affordable, more social, and less stressful than trying to fit private lessons into your routine.

Alternatively, we also offer group classes where you can practice the piano for free online in small groups. Sign up for TakeLessons Live, get unlimited access to piano practice, and join the class sessions that best work for your schedule. And hey, if you can afford to take private lessons, find a TakeLessons instructor near you, or take online classes.

Piano Lessons for Working Adults & Parents

By now, you’ve already decided whether to stick with the piano or to drop it. If you’re one of the lucky few that stuck with it, in spite of having an extremely busy schedule with work and family obligations, congratulations. Contrary to popular belief, taking the time out for routine piano practice has tremendous benefits, even for the busiest of people.

We believe that piano practice as an adult is more productive than it seems because it clears your head, it builds patience, discipline and concentration skills which you can transfer over to other parts of life, and it keeps your hand-eye coordination sharp. It also keeps you committed to learning and improvement, which again, are transferable traits to professional life. As role models, parents taking active classes shows kids the importance of pursuing personal interests for life.

Piano Lessons for Senior Citizens & Retirees

Another study showed that practicing a musical instrument can slow down the aging process. The study of adults ranging from ages 60 to 83 revealed that those who played music regularly had better verbal and non-verbal memory, verbal fluency, visuomotor speed, and cognitive flexibility.

Even if you’ve never played a musical instrument or shown any interest, it’s never too late to start. Even latecomers can fall in love with something as timeless as the piano. Age isn’t a relevant factor, when it comes to curiosity, pleasure, and determination.

What to Learn with Private Piano Lessons

Your private lessons instructor can help you fill in all the knowledge gaps that are preventing you from playing the piano to the best of your ability. Here are all the fundamental piano topics you should expect your teacher to cover:

Learn about the physical and theoretical aspects such as piano keys, notes, chords, scales, sheet music reading, tuning, music theory.

Learn how to play piano while singing or in combination with other instruments.

Learn about the similarities and differences between the different types of pianos: keyboards vs grand vs upright vs digital vs hybrid.

Learn about the similarities piano has with other percussion instruments such as tabla, djembe, bass and snare drums.

Learn about what separates an expert pianist from an intermediate level pianist.

Learn about popular piano songs and artists, and how to play like them.

Learn about the different piano music genres such as Classical, Jazz, Latin, Contemporary, Modern, and Christian.

Are piano and keyboard lessons the same?

A piano is acoustic instrument, a keyboard is electronic, and a digital piano is a mix of both. They each have unique advantages and drawbacks.

An acoustic piano and digital piano have weighted keys, while an electronic keyboard has unweighted keys. You can connect headphones to a digital piano or a keyboard so only the pianist can hear the music. Acoustic pianos sound the best, or rather, the most natural, but tend to be more expensive to buy, and to maintain (tuning). Keyboards and digital pianos are cheaper, don’t require tuning, and are easily portable. Grand pianos and upright pianos take up a lot of room, and are difficult to move, however, if they’re well taken care of, they can last you over 30 years.

A TakeLessons piano instructor can teach you best practices based on the type of piano or keyboard you or your child is using to learn and play.

Free Piano Lessons & Resources

Check out this video for a free piano lesson on finger speed exercises.

Check out this video on playing the piano with emotion.

Check out our free articles, guides, and infographics on learning the piano fast.

Finally, take free piano classes with TakeLessons Live.