5 Weeks to Kumzits Piano Course

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What’s Your Dream?

So you want to learn to play piano. Jewish music. You know, the same kinds of songs you sing along with when you’re in the car, in the kitchen, or singing together with friends.

Maybe you are hoping to play for a kumzits or a school production. Perhaps you just want a great outlet to help you relax after a long day. Or maybe you want to make a fun activity of playing and singing with your kids.

You may never have touched a piano in your life. Or perhaps you have tried unsuccessfully in the past. You really want to learn to play once and for all. But you have not-so-fond memories of note reading and stupid made up songs that you’ve never heard before.

Or you could be an accomplished pianist, having spent years learning to read notes. But playing Jewish music eludes you. You can’t find decent sheet music for the songs you want to play. Maybe you’re frustrated that you have to rely on notes for every new song you want to learn.

You can just imagine yourself sitting on the piano bench, hands gliding gracefully across the ivory keys, a group of friends around you singing and harmonizing … But the question remains: how do you get there?

Learning to play can actually be fairly easy

It definitely takes practice to learn how to play piano, but it doesn’t have to be hard or tedious.

Instead of starting out slaving over reading notes, you can actually be playing proficiently in just weeks by starting with building blocks: chords and rhythm. This provides a quick win because you’re playing and enjoying almost immediately. Instant gratification goes a long way to providing ongoing motivation to learn more (even tedious note reading, if you desire!).

Besides for the factor of quick results, learning to play chords has the added benefit of super availability of songs to play. Proper sheet music featuring right and left hand notes can be hard (impossible?) to find, but sheets with lyrics and chords are plentiful!

If you sing along while you play, you can skip playing the melody too, eliminating a lot of hard work and allowing you to play beautiful music really quickly. (Again, the confidence you gain by playing beautiful music will likely motivate you to want to learn to play melody – whether by notes or by ear – someday too!)

When broken down into actionable tasks, anyone who loves to sing can learn to play this way.

Why People Choose 5 Weeks to Kumzits Piano Course Over Standard Piano Lessons

Take your lesson at your convenience, in your home – no need to go anywhere or worry about scheduling conflicts
Innovative method will have you playing real songs in less than 5 weeks
Learn the secret of professional musicians that many teachers don’t teach (and sometimes don’t even know!)
Learn to play even when you can’t find proper sheet music
Lay the foundation for playing by ear
Learn piano skills that will benefit you no matter what you decide to learn next (even note reading)
Get results fast. You won’t be playing a dumbed down version of rain rain go away after many weeks or months of lessons! With 5 Weeks to Kumzits you’ll be playing songs you love in record time!
Its FUN! When I ask my students how things are going, they all say, “It’s so much fun!”(I am fond of saying that “practice” is a dirty word! If it’s fun, you won’t think of it as “practice”, but rather as “playing”. It takes “playing” to learn how to play!)

Who this course is for

Anyone who loves to sing
High school and older
Willing to commit to 15 minutes 5 days per week plus an extra half hour once a week on lesson day
Experience level:
- have no playing experienceOR
- know how to play but can’t learn a new song without notes (ie classically trained)(You will already know the very beginning of the first lesson, but will quickly advance to a new approach to playing piano. What you already know will just help you to learn faster.)

This course is NOT for you if:

You are younger than high school age

I believe young children learn best when they have a live person sitting next to them. An interactive online course such as this is best suited for approximately high school age and above.

You can take the course together with your younger child as long as you are prepared to help him/her out as needed.
Your goal is to play classical music.

If your real goal is classical music you should get classical lessons and learn to read notes from the beginning.

If you play classical but want to play Jewish music too, 5 Weeks to Kumzits is an excellent supplemental program to your regular lessons. And it is short, so you can complete the course over a summer, if you wish.
You don’t like to sing.

This course requires a lot of singing!!!

You can certainly learn by playing along with the recordings, but you’ll really miss out if you aren’t prepared to sing along!
You don’t want to learn to play – someone is forcing you.

There is no course or lessons that will teach you to play if you aren’t really interested.
You are not open minded about better ways to learn to play; you just want to do whatever everyone else is doing.

There are lots of “standard” teachers in nearly all geographic locations who can give you “standard”, run-of-the-mill lessons.

They also provide a “standard”, run-of-the-mill experience and a “standard”, run-of-the-mill drop-out-before-you-really-learn-to-play rate.

With 5 Weeks to Kumzits, you “really learn to play” in 5 weeks, so you’d have to drop out pretty quickly to “drop-out-before-you-really-learn-to-play”!
You aren’t going to practice (“play”, as I prefer to say!).

If you aren’t going to put in the effort, don’t bother taking lessons. You will not learn from sitting at a lesson or from watching a video. The learning happens when you apply the knowledge and actually play!