Live Your Dream. Play Piano by Ear.

Understand the theory and improvise your favorite songs with the Quicklessons Piano Course.

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It's a complete course for beginner and intermediate students.

Over 8 hours of video that you can watch at any time! Each lesson is clear and concise, shown from an up-close point of view so that you can easily see everything the instructor is doing. Click on the images to explore the course.

Module 1: Getting Started

Your piano lessons will begin with an introduction to the keyboard and the fundamentals of music theory.

Module 2: Learning Scales

In this module, you’ll learn what makes a scale as well as the major and minor scales for all 12 keys on the piano.

Module 3: Learning Chords

In this module, you’ll discover the various chords that come out of scales.

Module 4: Chord Progressions

You’ll learn 27 standard chord progressions used across various genres including rock, pop, R&B, hip hop, classical, gospel and jazz.

Module 5: Improvisation and Expansion

If you’re looking to grasp the fundamentals of improvisation and expand your musical ideas, this is the module for you.

Module 6: Reading and Writing Music

No piano course would be complete without a section that teaches you how to read music.

Download the course textbook!

Choose the Quicklessons Ebook membership and you'll get the course book and videos. Watch this video to see what's in the book.

Video Details

Available as a PDF download from this website, or as a paperback or e-book from Amazon, the course book features 352 full-color pages detailing each lesson in the video course. The lessons feature chord charts, easy-to-read keyboard diagrams, and sheet music transcriptions of some of the instructor's improvisations.

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Meet Your Piano Instructor

Ozie Cargile

Ozie Cargile is a composer/pianist from Detroit. A graduate of the University of Michigan, his works have been performed by several orchestras and ensembles including the Detroit Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York, and the Boulder Symphony of Colorado, which premiered his choral orchestral work "Song for Humanity" in collaboration with the 150-voice Boulder Chorale.

As a film composer and pianist, he frequently collaborates will film production studios, including HitRECord, a Los Angeles-based company headed Hollywood actor/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Cargile taught piano privately for 8 years before compiling his knowledge and experience into the Quicklessons Piano Course, which has been accessed by thousands of students in the United States and around the world.