For the past 26 years of my piano playing life, I have wanted to be able to do what this course apparently teaches. I have just finished listening through the program and am about to start from the beginning.

I can't remember the last time I was this excited about piano lessons!!!

Anyway, thanks again. It was indeed a pleasure doing business with you.

Until next time, Z.R.
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Just want to let you know that I have received your CD's today. I have listened to both CDs, and I really enjoyed them. 

The first time ever, something I bought actually works for me. I'm looking forward to study the advanced course.

...once again, ... thanks for the piano lessons.

Larry
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I appreciate your help very much.

Honestly, this low price you're charging for such a terrific guide, I believe, is beyond reasonable!

Thanks again for taking time to reply and for sharing your knowledge with others.

Sincerely S.A.
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Even though industrial isn't your specialty, I think you should be proud that it even helped in that area. Not only did it help the piano playing, but it also worked when I used the synth with other "instruments." I also came across another program basically like this one. It was awful. I'm glad someone has finally been able to take something we musicians all know and be able to "put it into words." It's sort of like an emotion: everyone knows about it and has felt it, but very few can explain it well.

Thanks again.
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Good morning! I am glad that my final examinations are finally over and have the time to listen to your course (at 4:00 am!). I intended to devote my entire break to your course so didn't start listening to it right after receiving from you. Besides, I don't want it to compromise my study. However, after listening, I should put it in the other way around as it's too well prepared and of excellent quality. Really, I can't thank you enough for creating this course!

Many are selling their inferior products more than (2X, 3X!!!) what you are asking for on the Net! Although it may seems odd that a customer complains that you have not charged enough for your product, I have been forbidding my urge to do so for quite a while...

T.S.
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I've played piano for over 30 years and play COMPLETELY by ear. Took lessons for 8 years as a kid...and took 8 years to figure out I couldn't read a note! This is definitely going to help build the foundation that's been missing all this time.

Thanks again!

K.A.
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I just got the music course last night! I love it!!! You make learning the piano soooo easy! You have explained some things that I never understood before. I was always baffled buy things like half steps and all the other things you have made so simple to understand.

My favorite Bach composition is "St. Annes, fugue in E Flat Major." Now I understand just what an E Flat Major is!!!

Thank you so much for being on this earth and that God blessed me with finding this wonderful course. I am going to teach it to my kids and recommend it to my friends (and anyone else who will listen!)

J.L.
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Thank you again!

Linda
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You are welcome to use any of my comments on your website. I am positive that just about all serious students will be happy to have found your course, and I am happy to encourage them to take the plunge.

Thanks again, and I hope that you and yours have a terrific holiday season and a happy new year!

Bob
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I've spent some time today reading and listening to the audio on your site (thank you so much for allowing me to do that -- it was so helpful). Although things are rather basic right now (p.5), I think that this is just what I need. I love your style of teaching and approach. All that I need is to be able to put your method into practice to make it work.

Your site is great -- very easy to use and extremely well done, being precise but not overwhelming a reader by too much information on each page. The audio, as well, works nicely, the options and explanation being particularly helpful.

Once again, thank you. I think you've got a very good idea here, and I'm very excited about learning.

L.B.
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The Internet access works perfectly, the text is easy to understand.

God Bless you!!

B.J.
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 ordered the original course as well as the bonus pack with blues and praise chords stuff too! I have not received my CD’s as of yet, but I did download the original stuff and I was well pleased at the content! 

I just had to write to you and let you know how I felt about the course thus far. I'm looking forward to learning even more of how I can use this course to improve my playing ability to the professional level that I want so badly! 

May God continue to bless you and to use you as an instrument to bless people like myself in the musical journey!

Sincerely yours’ 

Ernest
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Thanks for a great course. I have been playing for years, the old way (melody in right hand, etc.).  I met some friends who wanted me to play backup / rhythm and I had no clue how to do this. Your course is really helping. You are sharing God's gift to you with us and I appreciate it.

Thanks again,
Stephen
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I received your DVD2 Pattern Piano. Excellent quality DVD. Like you, I'm also drawn to the sound of minor chords. I lean more toward the classical sound, but I also like those haunting, Irish ballads. Do you know any Irish sounding patterns? 

What really impressed me on the DVD was how beautiful those simple patterns sound when they are alternately played from Chord to Chord. They stand alone themselves without the singing especially the chord progression in Poor Wayfaring Stranger.

Anyway, thought Id drop you note letting you know I really like your DVD. You are an excellent teacher. Keep up the good work.

Wayne from Indiana
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I don't have words to express my gratitude. All these courses are excellent
and your approach to music is unique. I am now studying lesson 7 and more or
less trying to master it. It has been a little difficult since I was not
familiar with that song at all, but I am doing my best!

I am also trying to make some arrangements of some latin songs (Boleros. I have hundreds of them!), using the rhythmic patterns used in your course up to lesson #7. They sound good (At least to my ears!).

I received all the DVDs and CD Rom  you sent me. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I am truly enjoying them!! Blues seven skill are hard work but they
fantastic!!

Thank you again.
Forgive my poor English
Good bless you
Your friend
Benito
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I like to play harmony and I am just in the intermediate stage. My math (such as you presented it online) has been good. 

It also gave me many ideas for bringing more blues to my guitar chords. I can read music such as an elementary student would read english. The point in sending this email was mostly to thank you for all your fine effort. 

also will be buying a good keyboard and following with you until I get good enough for lessons. I have just noticed that two instruments will be better than one. I have a timing problem not a reading problem. I had thought of a drum machine, but the keyboard will eliminate some cost. I just could not allow good people to go to such an effort as yours without saying thank you.

Ken
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I am a 34 year old profession who DJs online in his spare time.

I was thinking of ways to make new stuff for the radio station, original background music for my breaks and for tags, when happened into a Re-Mac (Apple computer) store while the employee was giving a demonstration of Garage Band. It hit me that it would be a great way to make my own music, but I didn't know how to play and I didn't want to just use the 'canned' loops that the program offers to make a musical collage. I wanted to use the 50 virtual instruments to make my own.

So, my next step was to find a keyboard and a piano course. I ended up with a Keystation 49e by M-Audio. I looked up piano courses online, and when I came across your webpage, I was really impressed with it. Something about what you were saying struck a chord (pun intended).

It also hit me what you said about how 'classic' piano lessons made students more like parrots, able to play music without understanding what they are really playing. Made me thing of speaking and writing. As we grow, we learn to speak before we learn to read & write, so that when we do learn how to read & write, the words are more than just marks on a paper, they have instinctive meaning to us. This is what I see in your course. Learning to play and understand the music, rather than learning to play marks on a paper.

I ordered the DVD course last week and, although I haven't received the DVD yet, have started working my way through the downloaded lessons. If everything works out as well as I assume it will, you can bet you will be hearing more from me soon, and that I will also be recommending your course to anyone that will listen to me.

Thanks again.
Michael 
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I just want to say thank you for being the inspiration that you are to so many of us "want-to-be" piano players. 

Your course is a must have for anyone who is serious about wanting to learn the piano. Your course is very inexpensive compared to others and you actually make people feel like you are right there with them next to the piano. 

What appears to be a basic approach on the surface is really an innovative technique that diminishes fear and instill confidence within your students regardless of their previous experience or background. You are are a true Godsend. 

What you do is much more than a public service....it's ministry. What a tremendously helpful website, what a great warrior in the Lord. I look forward to purchasing more great music products from you and supporting you with my prayers. God Bless!

Leroy
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Thanks to you I am getting very little sleep at night any more. I bought a
grand piano about a year ago. Big old, I mean old, 6 foot Ivers & Pond
monster. I bought it really for my daughter (12 years old) to play when
she comes over. She has been taking lessons for about two years. She just
didn't play it much though. Anyway, the thing basically had just been
sitting there in that room for a couple months and finally I decided that
I either needed to get rid of it or learn to play it. Well I opted for the
second choice and came upon your website while doing a search on playing
the piano. 

I ended up getting your original course and have become totally
addicted to playing. It is all I do anymore. I did not realize how
mathematical music was until you taught me the chord structures. I also
work with a guy who is a jam up keyboard player. All he ever talks about
is that dad gum "Circle of Fifths." Well it took some time but it finally
hit me one day what he was talking about. How every song can be analyzed
by that circle. It is amazing to see how the chord progressions are
spelled out. I think it would be helpful if you could incorporate the
circle into your website because it really opened my eyes as to how the
chord progressions in songs work. I think it really is THE next most
important thing students should learn once they understand chord
structure. Anyway I am going on too much. At least I'm not preaching to
you about taking the "Original Course." Oh that's right its' your course
isn't it.? Sorry!

Dave I just want to tell you that you have been a real blessing to me.
This may sound crazy but I find great comfort in listening to you and your
music on your website and lessons of which I have purchased several. I am
anxiously awaiting delivery of your record "Sitting at the Feet of Jesus."
Your love for the Lord and people comes through like a bell ringing on a
foggy shoreline. God has given you a wonderful gift and I wanted to let
you know that He is speaking to people through you and your website
because He has spoken to me. Please pray that God will continue to work in
me. 

I have to tell you that I have about gone crazy in the past year learning
all those chords and that Circle of Fifths, but I have learned them. I
have only been playing for about ten months or so and I want so much to be
a very good pianist. I keep wondering when I am going to be able to play
smoothly. I know the chords and even a lot of altered chords. It just is
so hard to get the rhythm. I feel like I have tremendous head knowledge,
but it is getting it to come out through my fingers without all the
hesitation. Are there any drills you can suggest that would help me in
this area. Your "Worship" and "Intros and Turnarounds" lessons have helped
me with thinking about how to embellish the chords and fill those
deadspots. 

Working through your song "All Glory to Jesus" was really a
great drill on how to think through a lead sheet and be creative. I wish
you would do more of those. I know I am improving. I mean I have to cause I
play every day. Usually for at least two or three hours. I just want to
find some good practice drills to get me to where I can read those lead
sheets and play. Thanks Dave. 

~Kerry
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By the way I am a 53 year old woman , I have always had this deep desire to play the piano, your program seemed to make that possible for me and I want to play by ear' to express what's in my head.

Piano at 53 ! Yeah! Nancy
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I wanted to drop you a line to tell you how impressed I am with your online piano courses.

I purchased the Original Course and downloaded it and learned more in one afternoon than in years of on-again-off-again lessons.

The blues lesson was extremely helpful - I would dearly love to take that to the next level - do you have any more blues lessons available?

Thanks again for a marvelous course - very well put together.

Regards,

James
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I'm 35 years old and have never played any instrument. 

Recently I was inspired by my having a go on my brother in laws keyboard to get one of my own. I searched the internet for lessons and found your website.

I just wanted to say thank you for putting such a great course together and making it available for download :-)

I'm using the "Rhythmic Patterns" download and am progressing faster than my friend who has a piano tutor :-)

You just can't beat the clear explanations and video clips. My friend's tutor is gone after a half hour but I can keep rewinding your video clips to get it right.

Thanks again
Regards
Chris
UK
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I am a veteran "read music and play by the book" classically trained pianist, if you can call me that. 

I gave up playing years ago....Having had some natural ability and love for the instrument, I learned how to read music quickly and played many beautiful and difficult pieces...but could never improvise, and never truly and deeply understood music as far as theory went. 

Theory bored me and I avoided it.  I never studied past high school and never persevered with independent study. I came across an ...email from you by accident and was intrigued.  I signed up and eventually put the CD in the player recently. 

I had a clue you might know Jesus when I saw that you offered a Worship Music series...but I was sure when I heard your voice on the CD and the choices of music for the lessons....those hymns and spirituals and the way you sang about Him. Then I went to the site to download the book and went to your personal message and saw your note sharing the gospel. I encourage you in your work and rejoice that you know Him too and are telling others about Him. 

I am still in the listening phase of the CDs and will let you know how I do when I put fingers to the keyboard. My hope is that I can one day play the piano for Him in worship and praise, not ever for others because I don't have a beautiful voice like yours or many others, but if I could lead some other broken souls to truly worship Him in someone's living room by playing the way you instruct....that is my sole purpose in taking your class. I am grateful for your simple and yet musically accurate method.  I will let you know when I need to order the next lesson series...and I will keep you in my prayers as you try to do His Will. 

God bless you,
Ann
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Having only been through the first lesson, i can say that this is an 
excellent course...You are truly a genius not only with the way you bring 
across this course of piano, but also in the user-friendliess of this 
program...And how many queries are pre-empted by you..its superb...

What's the secret behind these success?..haha... Good luck in the new year... You rule man!

Nathaniel
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God Bless You. Thank you so much. 

I have been giving a friend little lessons on Wednesday evening after church. 

She can't read except just limited words but knows her numbers and letters. I have been keeping it real simple and going real easy on her. But her mother always is telling me she wishes she could play even just a little and I keep telling that if I can do it she can do it. So I give her the same lesson except I've written out the chords for her. That way she learns a little but she can also help her daughter practice. 

I am very limited. I play right hand by note and left by ear. But could only play in a few keys (C, F, G, D & Bb). I really had a desire to do more. 

I'm Music Director at our little church and play the piano on Wednesday night service. I fill in for my other two "good" piano players if they have to miss. 

I really believe God led me to your site when I began playing for his blessing in helping me learn to do more for Him. He has blessed me to write songs and my family has had a southern gospel music ministry for years. 

But I always have to get my songs on track or have someone to play them. That is not always easy, especially if you're in a hurry. I'm sorry. I go on to much. 

Anyway, thanks for crediting my card and I am going to give this course to [names removed]. They are not financially loaded but abundantly wealthy in Godly wisdom and character.  My husband and I always want to bless them all we can. You are helping us do that. I thank God for you and your generosity. Bless you. I will recommend this course to everyone I know. 
Thank you so much. 

Sincerely,
Patsy - A more than satisfied customer 
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I purchased your Pattern Piano course several months back and also purchased your Worship CD recently and just want to say thank you for what you have done.

I am the youth leader in our church and I have played the bass guitar for several years, but have always had an interest in the piano and music in general. When I finally got enough desire to really sit down and learn to play the piano I found your course and started it right away.

After just a few months now studying your course I have now began to lead our youth choir (We have never had one before) and we have already played in church twice and our young people are ready for more as well as our church members.

I just want to tell you that I could not have gotten as far as I have playing the piano in such a short time if it had not been for your courses.

You have truly been a blessing in my life and now many others here in Texas that do not even know you.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience in such a great way.

God Bless,
Raymond 
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My name is Gilbert. I am a 36 year old father of three growing monsters for boys....I am not only pleased with your course but i am excited to say that I would refer you to anyone and everyone who will listen. 

My only musical background other than wanting to learn was humming or singing a tune that got stuck in my head. I had the pleasure of purchasing your course and am delighted to say that while in the fact that i am learning....i have learned thru your course what i wanted to learn. 

I have never played a musical instrument before....and now i get an excited tingly feeling when my boys lean over me and say " wow daddy that sounds good" that was all i needed to hear in order to believe that this course was simply amazing. In this day and age of that noisy stuff my boys listen to and for them to say that to me made it all worth while. 

Mr. Sprunger...thank you very much. One day...i will learn to play the piano like i really want too....but you have me on my way.

Gilbert
New Mexico
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Jackie Hunter
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Again, I have to say thank you.

After spending ten years, as a child and into adolescence, being forced to take piano lessons from an instructor who could not adequately explain scales and chords to me I hated the piano.  It's been 45 years since I touched a piano. 

After discovering your course I am now playing music, which my friends and neighbors enjoy. They often stop by the house to hear me practice and request that I play their favorite songs!

The best thing that has happened since I discovered Pattern Piano occurred when my oldest grand daughter was visiting.  She is ten and her parents have had her taking "classical" piano instruction for the past three years. She's an extremely bright young lady, but was having the same problem as me: She didn't just didn't comprehend intervals, how scales and their notes are actually formed and the entire relationship of keys, etc. Frankly, she had an instructor who had poor communication skills, and thus relied on rote memorization. 

She heard me practicing one day and asked me how I (the musical klutz) could make such beautiful music. I put your DVD in the player so she could see it from the piano and left her alone at the piano for an hour. After an hour I returned to find my grand daughter playing Schubert and segueing (not sure on the proper spelling) into the Beatles, back to Bach, then some rap group I didn't know.

All I can say is thank you! You've made an old man happy. Your Pattern Piano has made me happy to play simple tunes, but you may have, also given the impetus to a new arising piano diva.

Yours respectfully,

J. R.
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From the bottom of my heart I am truly thankful to you.

Eddie

Thanks forever!!!
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Then I discovered your website and thanks to your superb instruction HOORAY! it suddenly makes sense..

No more sitting staring at poor arrangements of excellent rock songs that end up sounding like lift music. (since when did a rock pianist play the melody!) 

No more counting the notes in the right and left hand whilst trying to work out chords and keys..."Right so I hit a C7 on the fourth and fifth semi quavers then I do this pushing beat thing on the last beat of the bar.....Oh no I've lost count, how many flats in Eb major, I give up.. it's no good I haven't got any rhythm!"

Now I don't have to tell everybody that "I only like playing classical music anyway!" 

I couldn't even do that without the music in front of me, and never managed to memorize many pieces unless they were very short and then promptly forgot them a week later! 

Although I have a lot more practicing to do, (which I just cant' get enough of by the way...( I love it!)... .If only my old piano teacher could see me now!) 
 the kids have started to think maybe Mum's not just a rubbish piano player with no taste in music after all. Maybe she a bit cool (only the tiniest bit, hardly enough to mention!)  and suddenly want me to teach them to play instead of yawning and making a rapid exit every time I sit down at the piano.

I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent, in such a clear and concise way, I feel I have accomplished more in a few days than I did during six years of piano lessons.

Oh how I dreaded those lessons, half an hour a week feeling like the clumsiest fool, ..."Play that again this time try playing at least some of the right notes, what time was that supposed to be in I don't think 11/4 time has been invented yet!, Why exactly is your left hand copying what your right hand is doing, I can't that written hear, can you? ..etc.

Your obvious enthusiasm for music is totally infectious, now I feel excited about learning (instead of a little nauseous) and the sense of achievement is incredible, you've got us singing and accompanying ourselves in a matter of hours.

After a term under the gloomy supervision of my disapproving piano teacher I finally got to play "Merrily We Roll Along" all on one note but in the right rhythm. I can remember playing it to everyone and getting really annoyed when no-one knew what is was. 

Anyway, due to your great motivational skills, I will have to go now as I feel a Riff coming on!

Thank you once again.

Jill
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