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Is the Rhythmic Patterns technique exclusive to piano lessons or has it been around for awhile?

Surprisingly, the Rhythmic Patterns technique is not exclusive to piano lessons, and it's not new. Guitar players have been doing this for years! They learn a few simple chords and a basic strumming pattern and within minutes they're enjoying playing a song right away. Of course at this point they're not phenomenal musicians, but they have immediate enjoyment and that really counts for something in the progression to becoming a musician.

Piano lessons down through the years have been woefully lacking when it comes to instant gratification.  The typical piano lesson consisted of a lot of drudgery at the beginning with the end goal of playing music attainable only after many years of on the piano. Although instant gratification has come to have a bad name in our consumer driven society, a beginning musician should be able to have enjoyment from the very first day!

Having said that, there are also piano lesson courses available on the Internet that provide instant gratification without much actual content. By teaching a few tricks on the piano, you can make someone believe they're on the road to becoming a musician, but without actual musical understanding it's a dead end.

As in most things in life, balance is the best. Piano lessons that provide instant gratification while also teaching long-term musical concepts produce life long musicians.  The "Rhythmic Patterns" piano lessons technique is ideal for producing long-term musicians. Pianists who study this technique realize quickly that this method is not based on a musical "trick" but it's based on rock solid musical theory... and a whole lot of fun!

In fact if you go through the first section of the piano lessons course titled "Pattern Piano and Keyboard", you'll find that you'll quickly gain an understanding of how notes, intervals and chords fit together to form the foundations of music. From there we'll dig into chord voicings and how to break them up rhythmically into what's called "Rhythmic Patterns" on the piano.

Within moments after going through the music theory section of the piano lesson course, you'll be playing your first song, and I bet you'll have a great big smile on your face!  It's not a musical trick, it's a wonderful start on the path to musicianship.

What is the progression of the piano lessons course from start to finish?

By the time the piano lesson student has their first song nailed down, they've got a good grasp of music theory, including chord structures and how to use them simply in a song.  From there we'll immediately go to a new song on the piano. However this time within your piano lesson you be studying a brand-new "Rhythmic Pattern". Then, just like we did in the first song of the piano lessons, we'll use this pattern to play the second song.

The power of the piano lesson course becomes very apparent in the following section. Here we won't learn a new musical pattern. Instead the piano lessons course comes alive here as the piano student is taught to alternate the first two musical rhythmic patterns that they learned and use them to play the next song of the course.  All of a sudden, the whole is equal to more than the sum of its parts!  What I mean is that Rhythmic Pattern number 1 combined with Rhythmic Pattern #2 creates a whole new musical texture on the piano that breathes new life into this new song. It's an amazing process. These piano lessons have a track record of inspiring musicians to further their musical studies and become creative musicians. That's the whole point.

Learning new musical "Rhythmic Patterns" and learning how to mix and match them to create a unique sound as you play the piano is the track these piano lessons take for majority of the course.

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