| Does the idea of taking piano lessons make you | | | | was forced to stare at it for a hour every week. It |
| cringe? Does it make you remember old Sister Mary | | | | was huge! There was simply no avoiding the sight of |
| beating you over the knuckles with a ruler when you | | | | that awful, purplish thing that seemed to be getting |
| were eight years old for not practicing your scales | | | | larger every time I visited. How any 13-year-old can be |
| enough? Do you think back to the old woman with | | | | expected to concentrate on music lessons while being |
| thirty-three cats that stank of beef stew and cheap | | | | forced to stare at an anomaly straight out of a |
| perfume that your mother made you learn scales from | | | | medical textbook - or perhaps even a science-fiction |
| when you were a child? | | | | show, considering the size of it - I have no idea. |
| You don't have to be traumatized any more. Simply | | | | But, I really wanted to learn to play piano. So, I suffered |
| dissociate your bad experiences and learn how to play | | | | through the piano lessons from Hell for a little under a |
| piano online. That way, you'll never have to smell a | | | | year. What do I remember from my lessons? I most |
| stinky piano teacher again. | | | | remember the trauma of being forced, both by my |
| Know that you are not alone out there. I remember | | | | parents and by my own drive to learn, to go to piano |
| taking the piano lessons from Hell when I was a | | | | lessons that I dreaded. |
| teenager. My instructor, we'll call him Mike (mainly | | | | Perhaps your piano lessons from Hell were a bit less |
| because that was his name) was in his forties. Looking | | | | traumatizing. But still, who wants to make the effort to |
| back, I'm fairly certain that he ended up teaching piano | | | | leave the house when you can teach yourself by |
| lessons to children because he had absolutely no other | | | | studying online? Such a luxury would have made my |
| marketable skills. | | | | young teenage life immeasurably easier, and I'd be a |
| My piano lessons took place in a music shop that | | | | better piano player for it. |
| seemed ordinary enough from the selling floor. Once | | | | So, if you've had bad experiences with piano lessons in |
| you entered the back room for lessons, however, you | | | | the past, you can still learn to play without that weekly |
| were overwhelmed by the stench of urine, cheap | | | | feeling of dread. With the advent of the Internet, you |
| liquor and cigarette smoke. Apparently, Mike wasn't so | | | | no longer need to hunt down an expensive instructor. |
| hot at keeping his area neat and tidy. If he only knew | | | | Simply look for a great course online, and start plunking |
| that a little bit of Lysol goes a long way, my nose | | | | your way toward your true destiny as a piano |
| would have been so grateful! | | | | virtuoso. Even if you only end up a virtuoso in your |
| After a few minutes, I would get used to the smell. At | | | | own home, you'll be amazed by how quickly and easily |
| least, I would become less horrified by it the more I | | | | you can learn to play piano online at your own pace. |
| was forced to breathe it in. What I simply couldn't get | | | | Enjoy the comforts of your own home as you learn, |
| over, however, was the giant growth on Mike's hand. | | | | and trust me, your knuckles will thank you for the |
| Yes, a huge tumor-like growth joined me and Mike | | | | absence of piano teachers slapping them around if |
| every Tuesday night for lessons. It was about the size | | | | you miss a few practice sessions. |
| of a quarter, and since he was my piano teacher, I | | | | |