New Methods & No Gimmicks For those of us who have had some exposure to traditional piano instruction, we know how tedious and boring it can be. Unfortunately, most piano students both children and adults eventually drop out and never go back to playing the piano. Why? Children are commonly forced to do piano lessons when they are small and have to do what their parents make them do. The lessons are typically delivered in a stern manner and emphasize discipline and rigid procedures. For most, the sad result is that the children never discover the joy of music. For them the whole experience is just years of unpleasantness and when they are old enough they rebel and refuse to keep taking lessons. Those who take up piano as adults can have an even more frustrating experience. Pressured by other demands such as work and taking care of a family, most adults find the learning the piano to be too time consuming, the progress too slow and most of all, not a bit of fun. What happens next is that they drop out altogether or start looking for shortcuts. In reality there are no shortcuts, tricks, magic techniques or miracle methods that are actually effective. Despite the clever claims and polished promises, gimmicks simply do not work. Tom Parente's Method - online piano videos lessons for beginners PROFESSOR PARENTE has taught piano students for over 35 years. He has taught one on one, he has taught class lessons and he has taught all ages from young children to middle age adults. He is a teacher of teachers. He particularly loves to teach children and marvels at how excited they are to learn. He believes that technique is important, that posture and position are important and that discipline and dedication are important. But, most of all he has come to understand that ultimately success at the piano results from enjoying the experience. That is the primary focus of his online piano videos lessons for beginners. Integrating the principals of Dalcroze eurhythmics with his own techniques, he is able to impart the sense of flow to his students wherein the hands and fingers act to create music without conscious thought. His experience and studies have given him insight into how the body can almost instantly react to visual stimuli without deliberate mental instruction from the individual. With this understanding he has been able to develop a process of learning and practicing that create an automatic flow from the eye to the finger tips. That is, when the eye sees a musical note the fingers are able to instantly produce the action that turns a note written on a piece of paper into a sound on the piano. And, this happens without any conscious effort in the mind in much the same way that the body blinks an eye or ducks from a thrown object. You do not think before you do these things, they actions just flow without conscious thought. Through Tom Parente's method you or your children will develop this same flow at the piano. If you are just started to learn the piano it probably seems impossible to you that all ten fingers could be working at the same time to play the notes your eye sees. However, this will happen. All you have to do is pay close attention to Tom Parente's online piano videos lessons for beginners and practice sufficiently. Little by little, but faster than you expect, you will find the flow starting to come. Before you know it you will find that you or your kids will actually be playing songs for your friends and neighbors. These lessons will be taught through guidance and discovery not rigid rules Every lesson is carefully designed to build on the previous so that the foundation is laid brick upon brick, layer upon layer. After a time, you will find to your surprise that you or your children actually enjoy and look forward to practicing the piano and you will be pleased by the steady progress.