Piano Beginners Starter Kit

Get your Materials

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
-Alexander Graham Bell

1. Books

2. Official Journal

Blank paper. Without lines or numbers. (Get this one)

Paperage (Black notebook/ no lines)

3. Metronome

We recommend the following app:

Pro Metronome - Apple, Android.

4. Learning Apps

Your personal mental gym at home.
Click here for tutorials.

Tenuto - App available for Apple. Website for Android.
Musictheory.net - Website (for Android Users)

5. Instrument

Thinking of buying a piano? Best recomendations:

Whatever you buy, make sure you love how it sounds. Because you'll have to listen to it... a lot.

Use this industrial strength "quality standard":"It's either a hell yes, or a definite no!"

6. Spotify Playlists

If you want to learn French, you must listen French, eat French and live French... ooh la la.

Piano Concertos:

Chopin Piano Concerto II – 2^nd Movement– Krystian Zimerman
Brahms Piano Concerto II– Alfred Brendel
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto I – Murray Perahia

Piano Pieces:

Chopin Waltzes and Preludes – Joao Pires
Debussy Suite Bergamasque Clair de lune – Nikolai Lugansky

Opera Arias:

Female Opera Arias

Violin Performances:

Mendelsohn Violin Concerto in E minor – Anne-Sophie Mutter
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto – Ivry Gitlis

Piano Beginners Starter Kit

A comprehensive list of materials.

Memory Systems for Pianists

Easy, fun and reliable.

C!ty System

Our secret sauce.

Tenuto App Tutorials

A handy dandy tool!

ABRSM Piano Resources

A growing repository of resources!

Parents Resources

Help your child practice, and more...