Learn to Play Piano Fast with Scott Houston - Easy Piano Lessons for Beginners & Adults | Perfect for Home Practice & Performances

This is SO much fun!Sixty-five years ago, I announced to my parents that I wanted to learn how to play "cocktail piano." What I got was 10 years of piano lessons, along with the mega-bazillion hours (in dreaded, daily, 90-minute doses) of scales, arpeggios, and pieces of classical music I had absolutely no desire to play. So, at age 14, I quit playing the piano, defeated and humiliated that I - a kid who naturally played piano "by ear" - had never become a proficient musical notation reader, let alone a good pianist.Enter Scott Houston and "Play Piano in a Flash." Hey, this guy seems to know my story! Even better, he tells me that, in order to play the style of piano I've always wished I could play, I don't have to be either a master music reader or a dedicated piano practicer-of-music-I-don't-want-to-play! And after watching the first DVD in this series, I'm sitting at my keyboard, playing the great songs and tunes I love. No kidding.Is anybody going to hire me, tomorrow, to play piano in their sophisticated cocktail lounge? Of course not, but that has never been my goal. I want to play the music I love, for my own enjoyment, and Scott Houston is already making that possible. Do I need to get better? Sure, but this set of DVDs is teaching me all those "cheap tricks" that Scott Houston tells me professional piano players use all the time. All I have to do is grab a simple lead sheet (Scott tells you what that is) of some piece that I'm dying to play, and start playing - adding those "cheap tricks" as I get ready to do that. Woo-Hoo!!! What if I can't remember exactly how to do something I saw on the video? ... I replay that segment, watch Scott Houston's hands on the keyboard, listen to what he tells me to do, then try it again. That's it. Minutes, not hours, just as Houston promises.Best of all, this series tells me that my desire to play songs the way I hear them in my head - i.e., to play it by ear! - is exactly what is called for in this style of playing music. How great is THAT! I don't have to struggle to play the notes of some fancy arrangement. I can take the melody, with the simple chords that go with it, and then wing it, swing it, slow it down, jazz it up ... just the way you and I do when we're singing in the shower or whistling to ourselves. I can put in whatever "cheap tricks" I want, and make my rendition sound the way I like. My choice!So, if your story is like mine, and you still yearn to play popular piano, without years of sweat and expensive piano lessons, buy this DVD set. The Piano Guy will show you how to get started on your adventure. Yes, you can! You may not think you can, maybe, but it's easy and fun. Go for it. C'mon!