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If any of you is fluent in Spanish and want to learn to play piano, I can't recommend Jaime altozano enough (he's on YouTube). He's the best music teacher and communicator I've seen in any language, I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math.

He also has some paid courses available in https://www.musihacks.com/ but just the free content is already awesome to understand modes, scales, pregressions, etc

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Well, now I know about 3Blue1Brown so thanks for that!

Interesting the course looks good. Long time ago I saw the "Learn & Master" piano courses courses which are really good. As a hobbyist guitar player, learning piano is one of those things that I want to do once I retire and have time.

> I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math

Never heard of that person, but I'm intrigued. Are they better than Sal Khan?

Absolutely. Khan Academy teaches unconnected facts in the way that US schools operate, but 3blue1brown aims for understanding.

On one hand I agree- the big picture stuff is better with 2blue1brown. On the other hand, as far as doing the actual exercises that make me better at solving problems, Kahn felt a lot better.

I personally value being able to solve random problems better, as it makes me feel like I know the material better when I can apply it, but I think rational folks could disagree.

IIRC Grant formerly made videos for Khan Academy, and thus uses the same virtual-blackboard as Sal. However, Grant animates with a Python lib whereas Sal draws by hand.

Well, the best answer is to check for yourself! Here's his series of linear algebra videos for example:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...

Awesome tip, thanks for that!

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