Video lessons taught by renowned pianist David Sides.Popular songs as main teaching materials.Endorsed by the legendary Quincy Jones.Let me summed up all the pros and cons for you at a glance: Pros: You will be impressed with what they have to offer. If you want a piano program with a great curriculum and superior design of training platfrom that will give you a terrific user-experience, read my review on Flowkey. I know that the number one reason a piano student fails is the lack of quality instruction or curriculum from the instructor. I have failed playing the piano numerous times over the past 30 years due to various reasons. I felt like I’ve been thrown a bunch of songs with a lack of video instructions. While I trust that the creators of this piano course have good intent and purpose for every lesson, the curriculum is really not that great. You need visual aids with words, musical notes, or virtual keyboard demo, which is close to none though you always see a keyboard on the bottom. You can’t just talk and play while teaching, hoping that students will pick up whatever you’re showing them. Piano is a very difficult and complicated instrument to learn. The way David teaches in the videos is not that effective. In the Rookie, Intermediate, or Advanced section in the Bootcamp, you get a bunch of song lessons without video instructions. Personally, I don’t see how a student can improve playing these kinds of simplified arrangements. The songs are simplified to a degree that there are no substance in the music. I just want to say – most of the song arrangements are really boring. The songs are simplified, rearranged, or dumbed down by David Sides. In the beginning, you’re not really playing the songs, but practice exercises while the song is playing. Occasionally, you get a video lesson that focuses on major and minor triad, which is basically chords.Īnd then David wants you to play the chords, root notes, or whatever he wants you to practice in a song. I loved the idea when I heard that you don’t play boring exercises on Playground Sessions – just songs. I am upgrading the rating of this review to a 4 out of 5 stars.) 2. is really teaching the classes, which serves as actual endorsement to Playground Sessions. joins in to teach the fundamental courses of reading music and playing chords to advanced jazz and improvisation, which is extremely cool. With Quincy Jones’ endorsement, it really hard not to have a great first impression. The only time I see Quincy’s face is on the landing page of. One thing that’s for sure is that Quincy is not really teaching the lessons.Īlmost all of the lessons are taught by pianist David Sides, and it seems that he is the one running the program. It’s hard to tell to what level Quincy is involved in the program. Is Quincy Jones really the co-founder, or is he just putting his name on it? What I Don’t Like about Playground SessionsĪs the risk of being too critical and unfair, I will now give you the reason why I think Playground Sessions is a mediocre online piano program. So, you will never run out of songs to practice and learn. On top of the songs that you get from the basic membership after you join, every month you get 5 free songs to practice. You get 5 new songs to practice for free every month. The coolest thing is that the app comes with an Ipad version which makes it really convenient to use on any keyboard. In order to use the program, you need to install the Playground Sessions app on your PC or Mac and connect it with a keyboard. Playground Sessions works on PC, Mac, and Ipad
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