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I started playing piano in February/March and since 'real' lessons are out of the question right now, I wanted to learn it the right way. I looked around and I didn‘t wanted it to be a party trick, where I can play 3 songs by heart and that‘s it. I found pianote and to me it‘s one of the best teaching sites about a particular subject I‘ve ever seen. They take so much time to teach you the fundamentals and their progression path with 'The Method' makes learning fun and challenging. If you‘re looking for a good online course, I think there‘s no better one out there. Even a friend of mine, who plays drums in a band heard of it and said he only heard good things about it. I practice almost everyday and pianote is the best investment in myself I did in a long time.

edit: ah well, the HN downvote army comming in for voicing my experience on the subject discussed, what can you do... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This sounds like a fake review. They cost 200$ yearly to get the books or 30$ per month for online material. I guess the pricing may be ok for the US but for eastern Europe you can get learning materials for way less

While I do not speak on behalf of Pianote, there is definitely no paid shilling going on, it may be the case that the OP is a non-native english speaker, and in that way the tone comes across differently. As for the cost, I would definitely say Pianote's goal is to be a pianote lesson replacement, and in that way the content is cheaper, hopefully for a better/different experience than what you'd get taking sit down lessons

Haha, I knew my post had the potential to be taken the wrong way...and its not $200 for 'books' but for hours upon hours of video learning material, live sessions with teachers, backing tracks for your practice songs, PDFs with practices for your particular lesson and so on. I‘m just really a fan of the site and wanted to share my experience, and no I haven’t been paid to write this text on my 5yrs old account with 100 karma. :)

p.s yes I‘m not a native speaker

I got the books and I was _very_ (pleasantly) surprised by the quality of materials and the print. I think they alone could cost as much but you fet the access to the many hours of the quality online content. I thibk they really do care.

I'm a mobile dev at Pianote, glad you enjoyed the experience! Do checkout the mobile app

Hey man, I really like the mobile app but I also bought an iPad specifically for learning, cause the mobile screen is just to small for me to practice comfortably. Is there an iPad app in the works? Best regards to your whole team. You do an amazing job!

hey thank you! the mobile app should work all the same on iPad as well, it is cross platform :) rare that i hear from a user directly so that's pretty cool

Strange...just installed it on my iPad. Don‘t know why I didn‘t find it earlier. :) It‘s also a total surprise to me that you saw my post, I still consider HN niche among my frontend dev peers. Anyway so far everything, the app, the website and ofc the courses themself have been a joy to learn with. And again great work and best wishes to the whole team!

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