Pete Schulte

Piano In A Flash student

Pete's story begins at retirement - he'd always wanted to learn how to play the piano. He remembered his childhood piano lessons and wished he had stuck with them.  Now, at 67 years old, he was not sure he'd ever be able to learn...

But, Pete remembered Scott Houston.  He'd seen Scott's "The Piano Guy" weekly tv series on PBS several times during its Emmy award winning 14 seasons, and knew that Scott had a unique way of teaching adults the piano.  Pete visited Scott's Piano In A Flash site, and learned about his unique method ...

Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston

Emmy Award winning adult piano teacher

As a new beginner, Pete found that Scott's method and online lessons were perfect for what he wanted to learn and how he wanted to learn to play piano. Scott has 3 keys for teaching adults so successfully.  They include: 

Scott does NOT teach kiddy tunes.  He has compiled dozens of tunes we all know and love, which makes learning much more fun and enjoyable. You'll learn Christmas Carols, hymns, jazz tunes, and more!

Scott does NOT require you to become an accomplished note reader. However, you will learn the basic amount of note reading needed to play non-classical styles in a musically correct manner. 

Forget learning dozens and dozens of scales, chords, and etudes.  Just learning a few chords (the "big three" as they're often called) opens you up to playing THOUSANDS of fun tunes. 

"I can't believe I'm finally learning how to create music!  At 67, Scott's lessons worked perfectly for me.  His fun, light-hearted teaching style makes learning fun, and his method allows me to finally play tunes I've always wanted to."

Songs you'll learn:

• Jingle Bells
• Love Me Tender
• Aura Lee
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• Kumbaya
• Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
• Deep In The Heart Of Texas

• Differences in notation styles
• Finding your way around a keyboard
• Middle C
• Your first chords: C, F, and G Major
• How to handle fingering
• Getting hands to work together

• Ode To Joy
• Jambalaya
• The Birthday Song
• Silent Night
• Rock Of Ages
• Que Sera Sera
• On Top Of Old Smokey

• Blue Danube Waltz
• Fascination
• Just A Closer Walk With Thee
• King Of The Road
• Release Me
• Away In A Manger
• Feliz Navidad

• Be Happy
• Down By The Riverside
• Baby Love
• Knock Three Times
• Don't Worry
• Don't be Cruel
• Joy To The World

• Pick up measures and N.C.
  
• How long to hold notes & tied notes
• Reading Lead Sheets
• Playing a tune vs. reading a tune
• The three parts of every tune
• Time signatures

• Bar lines & measures
  
• Waltz pattern with your left hand
• New chord “flavor”: minor
• Chord inversions vs. root position chords
• New chord “flavor”: 7ths
• Latin pattern for your left hand

Skills you'll learn:

Songs you'll learn:

• Hound Dog
• heartbreak Hotel
• Shake Rattle and Roll
• All Shook Up
• 12 Bar Blues
• Kansas City
• C Jam Blues
• At The Half
• I Saw The Light

• Hearing music vs. reading music
• Chords in the right hand
• Learning the "road map" of a tune
• Rock-n-Roll patterns for your left hand
• Learning the Blues changes
• Learning Roman numeral chord changes

• Me And Bobby Mcgee
• Be Bop A Lula
• Amazing Grace
• If I Had A Hammer
• Can't Buy Me Love
• Heat Wave
• They Call The Wind Mariah
• The Twist
• Cold Cold Heart

• Your Cheatin' Heart
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Bridal Chorus
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina
• Don't Let The Sun Go Down
• On Me
• Dust In The Wind
• Up On The Housetop
• Stand By Me

• More fun left hand chord patterns
• Learning how chords are constructed 
• Whole steps and half steps
• Understanding sharps and flats
• Introducing chord substitutions
• Riffs and signature licks

• Accompaniment style vs. solo style
• I - vi - IV - V chord progression
• Passing tones in bass lines
• Tricks to jazz up the right hand melody
• Even more Major
• Minor 7th chords

Skills you'll learn:

• Twist And Shout
• Love Me Do
• Free Bird
• Little Brown Jug
• Red River Valley
• Brahms Lullaby
• Please Mr. Postman
• Stay
• Earth Angel

Lifetime membership

24/7 access to your lessons

Rewatch lessons infinitely

Direct feedback from Scott

Hard copy Course Books

A hard copy Gig Book

Two chord charts

A note guide

Let's do a fun comparison of Traditional Piano Lessons to Piano In A Flash to show you the true value of this special price: Course 1 and 2 contains roughly 5-7 months worth of lessons and learning material when compared to traditional, weekly piano lessons. 5-7 months worth of those lessons, averaging $30 a lesson (which is low-balling it), would cost you over $600-$840, and that's not even including the gas, time driving, books, etc. For the same amount of lessons (which you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home), learning material, PLUS the included books, you only pay $199 through this special offer with Piano In A Flash. 

Like Pete, you too can finally cross learning the piano off your bucket list.

Have questions? 

Email us at support@pianoinaflash.com or call 833.887.4266