Common knowledge suggests that experts and people who achieve greatness in their field were born with prodigious innate gifts, as if they were fated to excel. “Talent” is the mythological notion of God-given gifts, the kind that seem to exist for four year old children who play Mozart sonatas at …

The world of piano learning is vast and multi-faceted. Piano learners have many options for how they learn to play piano, as well as what they play and the source of information they use to play it. The traditional piano lesson is focused almost completely around reading sheet music. This …

Welcome to ThePianoLearner.com! I am so glad you stopped by. Since this is the first post I have written for the site, I will start by defining what I mean by the term “piano learner”. A piano learner is anyone who uses (or wants to use) the piano (or electric …