

Music theory encompasses elements of key signatures, time signatures, notation, chord structures, rhythmic patterns, important symbols, and descriptive words, phrases, and abbreviations. If you struggle to understand a lesson, you don’t have to wait an entire week for your next lesson, because you can replay the lesson on your computer or phone whenever you like, putting you in control of your learning experience.ĭespite these advantages, technological innovations carry potential disadvantages as well. “Play the keys as they light up on the screen!” These developments carry terrific advantages, providing you with interactive, graphical interfaces that can accelerate your understanding and may be especially captivating for children. Online courses, interactive apps, and live lessons through web chat and video tools bring lessons to your home, making learning the piano more accessible and convenient than ever before. Thanks to the internet, you can avoid the time, expense and hassle of traveling to a studio. Three decades later, you no longer use the Yellow Pages and your options for learning have multiplied. We also bought an old spinet piano with quite a few quirks. Once we chose a teacher, we scheduled 30-minute lessons and drove to (and from) her private studio weekly.


My mother searched for teachers in the Yellow Pages (remember those?) and asked for recommendations from friends. At eight years old in the 90’s, I wanted to learn piano.
