Play the Piano Like a Pro: Your Guide to Our Online Piano Course

Welcome to the Online Piano Course by Mohr Music School, where we offer an extensive and comprehensive program that is perfect for beginners and advanced players alike. This piano course is designed to help you master the basics of piano chords, music theory, and piano notes while playing easy and popular piano songs. Whether you are new to piano or looking to improve your skills, our piano lessons are crafted to make learning enjoyable and effective.

Introduction to the Online Piano Course

Our Online Piano Course is perfect for those who wish to learn piano at their own pace from the comfort of their home. The course includes 68 videos and printable exercise sheets that guide you through every step of the learning process. From mastering the basics of piano keys and notes to playing popular songs and understanding piano chords, this course covers it all.

This program is ideal for young adults and adults who are looking for structured piano lessons that start from the very beginning and advance to pro-level skills. Whether you're interested in learning music theory, understanding piano chords, or simply playing your favorite songs, this course provides a well-rounded approach to mastering the piano.

Key Benefits of the Online Piano Course

The online piano course offers a number of key benefits that set it apart from traditional in-person lessons or other online music courses. With lifetime access to all materials and lessons, you can learn and practice at your own pace.

The course is divided into three levels, allowing you to build your skills progressively. Starting from the basics of learning piano keys and notes, you will work your way up to advanced techniques, including playing piano chords, scales, and even understanding complex music theory.

Structured Learning Path

The course is divided into 68 lessons, with each lesson carefully designed to build upon the previous one. You will begin by learning the basics, such as piano notes and the positions of keys, before progressing to more advanced topics like piano chords and musical intervals.

Interactive Lessons

In addition to video lessons, you will have access to 68 printable exercise sheets that reinforce what you've learned in each lesson. These sheets will help you practice reading music, understanding piano theory, and mastering popular piano songs for beginners.

Level 1: Beginner Piano Lessons

The first level of the course focuses on the very basics of piano playing. Whether you're new to the instrument or revisiting the fundamentals, this level will cover everything from the location of the keys to basic piano chords and reading sheet music.

In this level, you will learn about piano notes, positions, and some easy piano songs that will get you familiar with the instrument. You will also explore different time signatures, rest signs, and the basics of note reading, all while practicing with simple exercise pieces.

Basic Piano Exercises

The lessons include exercises such as "Ode to Joy" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to help you practice your new skills. These are simple piano songs that are perfect for beginners, allowing you to get comfortable with the piano keys and reading music.

Key Concepts Covered

During Level 1, you will cover essential topics such as quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, and rest signs. You'll also start playing your first piano chords, including the C Major chord and G7 chord, both essential for playing many popular songs on the piano.

Level 2: Intermediate Piano Lessons

After mastering the basics, Level 2 dives into more complex piano techniques. Here, you will focus on mastering piano scales, learning more difficult chords, and practicing with more advanced piano songs. You will also review what you learned in Level 1, ensuring a solid foundation.

This level introduces the G Major and F Major scales, broken chords, and more intricate piano rhythms like dotted quarter notes and eighth notes. You will continue practicing with recognizable piano songs, such as "Good King Wenceslas" and "Silent Night."

Mastering Chords and Scales

By the end of Level 2, you will be comfortable with playing more advanced piano chords, such as D7 and G Major chords, in various positions. You'll also learn about the crescendo and diminuendo, key musical symbols that help shape the dynamics of your piano playing.

Playing Popular Piano Songs

The exercises at this level include well-known pieces like "Deck the Halls" and "Greensleeves," helping you refine your skills while playing songs you may already be familiar with. These piano songs will reinforce your knowledge of chords, scales, and reading sheet music.

Level 3: Advanced Piano Lessons

Level 3 is for those who are ready to take their piano skills to the next level. At this stage, you will dive deep into advanced music theory, complex chords, and scales that will truly challenge your abilities. The focus here is on mastering piano chords, including inversions and arpeggios, and playing classical pieces that require more technical skill.

This level includes pieces like "Moonlight Sonata" and "Canon in D," which will help you develop a deeper understanding of piano theory and performance. You'll also learn about advanced rhythms, including sixteenth notes, triplets, and more.

Advanced Piano Techniques

In this section, you will learn about complex musical concepts such as the chromatic scale, diminished and augmented triads, and crossing hands while playing. These advanced techniques will allow you to play more intricate piano music with confidence.

Classical Music Pieces

As part of your advanced training, you will play classical piano pieces like "Prelude in E Minor" and "Clair de Lune." These exercises will help you fine-tune your piano playing technique while also deepening your appreciation for music theory.

Printable Exercise Sheets and Theory Sheets

One of the unique features of this online piano course is the availability of 68 printable exercise sheets. These sheets complement the video lessons by providing additional practice in reading music, understanding piano chords, and playing scales.

The sheets are designed to reinforce what you've learned in the videos, offering exercises for various levels of difficulty. Whether you're practicing beginner piano notes or advanced chords, the sheets will help you develop muscle memory and improve your piano playing skills.

Theory Sheets for Deeper Understanding

In addition to the exercise sheets, there are 12 printable theory sheets that are perfect for those looking to deepen their understanding of music theory. These sheets will help you recognize new symbols and notes, making it easier to read and play sheet music.

Online Music Theory Course Integration

The piano course also integrates online music theory lessons that are essential for any aspiring pianist. Understanding music theory is key to playing piano songs with confidence and fluency. In this section, you'll learn about time signatures, key signatures, musical intervals, and more.

Mastering Piano Chords

The online music theory lessons will focus heavily on piano chords, helping you learn how to build major and minor chords, and how to play them in different positions. These lessons also explain the use of scales, intervals, and chord progressions in creating harmonious piano music.

Level 1 (1 hour 10 min)

Exercise 1: Names and Location of Keys on the Piano

This exercise introduces students to the names and locations of keys on the piano, focusing on the layout of the keyboard.

Exercise 2: Middle C Position

Students will learn the Middle C position, play notes by letters, and become familiar with quarter notes.

Exercise 3: Note Values

This section covers half notes and whole notes, helping students understand different note values.

Exercise 4: C Position and Clefs

In this exercise, students will explore the C position, understand treble and bass clefs, and learn about notes placed on lines with corresponding letters. They will also study time signatures, including 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4.

Exercise 5: Identifying Notes

Students will practice recognizing notes on lines without letters, distinguish between line and space notes, and learn tricks for remembering note names.

Exercise 6: The Grand Staff

This exercise involves playing on the Grand Staff, learning about measures and the repeat sign.

Exercise 7: Rest Signs and Fingering

Students will become familiar with rest signs and fingering indicators while practicing.

Exercise Pieces

Practice pieces include “Ode to Joy” and “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Exercise 8: Melodic Intervals

This section introduces melodic 2nd and 3rd intervals with practice pieces like “Tisket, A Tasket” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

Exercise 9: Harmonic Intervals

Students will learn about harmonic 2nd and 3rd intervals and dynamic signs such as piano, mezzo forte, and forte.

Exercise 10: Melodic 4th and 5th Intervals

This exercise focuses on melodic 4th and 5th intervals.

Exercise 11: Harmonic 4th and 5th Intervals

Students will practice harmonic 4th and 5th intervals with pieces like “Hush Little Baby” and “Humpty Dumpty.”

Exercise 12: C Major Chord

In this exercise, students learn the C Major chord through practice pieces like “C Chord Song,” “Ode to Joy,” and “Jingle Bells.”

Exercise 13: G7 Chord for Left Hand

This section introduces the G7 chord for the left hand, tempo signs, and the use of a metronome. A practice piece is “Oh! Susanna!”

Exercise 14: G7 Chord for Right Hand

Students will practice the G7 chord for the right hand, focusing on tied notes, with pieces like “Merrily We Roll Along” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

Exercise 15: Slur and Staccato Notes

This exercise teaches students about slurs and staccato notes using “Musette in D.”

Exercise 16: F Major Chord for Left Hand

Students will learn the F Major chord for the left hand and the flat sign while practicing “Aura Lee.”

Exercise 17: Natural Sign

This section covers the natural sign with practice pieces like “You Are My Sunshine” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain.”

Level 2 (1 Hour 58 min)

Level 1 Review

A brief review of concepts covered in Level 1 to reinforce learning.

Exercise 18: High G Position

This exercise covers the high G position and dotted quarter notes with pieces such as “Good King Wenceslas” and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”

Exercise 19: G Major Chord

Students will learn the G Major chord and the D7 chord for the left hand, along with chord symbols, practicing “Down by the Station” and “Lightly Row.”

Exercise 20: D7 for Right Hand

This exercise focuses on the D7 chord for the right hand and includes a pedal indicator, with the piece “We Three Kings.”

Exercise 21: C Major Chord in G Position

Students will practice the C Major chord in G position on the left hand, including incomplete measures and the fermata sign with pieces like “She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” and “The Hokey Pokey.”

Exercise 22: C Major Chord in G Position (Right Hand)

This section focuses on the C Major chord in G position on the right hand, practicing “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

Exercise 23: Broken Chords

Students will practice broken chords using “Red River Valley.”

Exercise 24: More Styles of Broken Chords

This exercise introduces more styles of broken chords with the piece “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”

Exercise 25: Switching Between Two Positions

Students will learn to switch between two positions while practicing crescendo and diminuendo with “On Top of Old Smokey.”

Exercise 26: Middle C Position

This exercise focuses again on the Middle C position, practicing “O Christmas Tree.”

Exercise 27: Eighth Notes

Students will practice eighth notes with pieces like “Happy Birthday” and “Skip to My Lou.”

Exercise 28: Eighth Notes in Different Positions

This section introduces eighth notes in different positions, including 1st and 2nd endings with pieces such as “Yankee Doodle,” “This Old Man,” and “The Galway Piper.”

Exercise 29: Reviewing the Dotted Quarter Note

Students will review the dotted quarter note and learn the dynamic sign mezzo piano while practicing “Deck the Halls” and “Silent Night.”

Exercise 30: Melodic and Harmonic 6th Intervals

This exercise introduces melodic and harmonic 6th intervals, focusing on the accent sign with pieces like “Alouette” and “Kum-Ba-Yah.”

Exercise 31: 6th Intervals in Different Positions

Students will practice 6th intervals in different positions with the piece “Blow Ye Winds.”

Exercise 32: Melodic and Harmonic 7th Intervals and Octaves

This section covers melodic and harmonic 7th intervals and octaves with the piece “Greensleeves.”

Exercise 33: C Major Scale

Students will learn the C Major scale, focusing on half steps, whole steps, and tetrachords while practicing “Can-Can.”

Exercise 34: Chords Moving Along the C Major Scale

This exercise involves chords moving along the C Major scale, practicing “The Cat Came Back.”

Exercise 35: Key of G Major

Students will learn the G Major scale with the piece “Joy to the World.”

Exercise 36: Key of F Major

This section covers the F Major scale and primary chords in the key of F, practicing “Auld Lang Syne.”

Exercise 37: Block and Broken Chords in Key of F Major

Students will practice block and broken chords in the key of F Major with the piece “Chiapanecas.”

Exercise 38: Key of A Minor

This exercise introduces the A Minor scale, including natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales, with the piece “Waltz in A Minor.”

Exercise 39: Primary Chords in A Minor

Students will learn about primary chords in A Minor while practicing “House of the Rising Sun.”

Exercise 40: Key of D Minor

This section covers the D Minor scale and a new position D, practicing “Toccata in D Minor.”

Exercise 41: Primary Chords in Key of D Minor

Students will practice primary chords in the key of D Minor with arpeggiated chords and the time signature 3/8 while working on “Minuet in D Minor.”

Level 3 (2 hours 38 min)

Level 2 Review

A review of concepts covered in Level 2 to reinforce learning.

Exercise 42: Key of E Minor

This exercise introduces the key of E Minor, triplets, and the use of bass and treble clefs on opposite lines with the piece “Moonlight Sonata.”

Exercise 43: Primary Chords in E Minor

Students will practice primary chords in E Minor while learning the dotted eighth note with the piece “Prelude in E Minor.”

Exercise 44: Key of D Major

This section covers the key of D Major and introduces sixteenth notes, practicing “Canon in D.”

Exercise 45: Primary Chords in D Major

Students will learn about primary chords in D Major while practicing “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Exercise 46: Chromatic Scale

This exercise introduces the chromatic scale with the piece “Entry of the Gladiators.”

Exercise 47: 1st Inversion

Students will practice 1st inversion with the piece “Waves of the Danube.”

Exercise 48: 2nd Inversion

This section covers 2nd inversion with practice pieces like “Brahms Lullaby” and “Hawaiian Sunset.”

Exercise 49: 2-Part Writing

Students will explore 2-part writing, dynamic signs p-mf, and fortissimo with the piece “Pomp and Circumstance No. 1.”

Exercise 50: Key of B Flat Major

This exercise introduces the key of B Flat Major, B Flat Major scale, time signature 6/8, and grace notes, practicing “Cantabile in B Flat.”

Exercise 51: Primary Chords in B Flat Major

Students will practice primary chords in B Flat Major as block and broken chords with the piece “La Donna E Mobile.”

Exercise 52: Key of G Minor

This section covers the key of G Minor and G Minor scale with the piece “Minuet in G Minor.”

Exercise 53: Primary Chords in G Minor

Students will learn about primary chords in G Minor while practicing common time and cut time with “Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.”

Exercise 54: Diminished and Augmented Triads

This exercise focuses on diminished and augmented triads while practicing crossing hands with the piece “Pirate's Song.”

Exercise 55: Key of E Flat Major

Students will learn the E Flat Major scale with the piece “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

Exercise 56: Primary Chords of E Flat Major

This section covers primary chords of E Flat Major while practicing “Nocturne in E Flat Major.”

Exercise 57: Key of C Minor

Students will learn the C Minor scale and primary chords of C Minor with the piece “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor.”

Exercise 58: Key of A Major

This exercise introduces the A Major scale and primary chords in A Major, including D.S. al Fine with the piece “Rockin’ Robin.”

Exercise 59: Key of F Sharp Minor

Students will learn the F sharp Minor scale and primary chords in F sharp Minor, focusing on trills and sextuplets with the piece “Chaconne in F Sharp Minor.”

Exercise 60: Key of E Major

This section covers the E Major scale and primary chords in E Major with the piece “Amazing Grace.”

Exercise 61: Key of C # Minor

Students will learn the C# Minor scale and primary chords in C# Minor, focusing on ritardando and a tempo with the piece “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”

Exercise 62: Key of B Major

This exercise introduces the B Major scale and primary chords in B Major with the piece “Plaisir d’Amour.”

Exercise 63: Key of G Sharp Minor

Students will learn the G# Minor scale and primary chords of G# Minor with the piece “Carol of the Bells.”

Exercise 64: Key of A Flat Major

This section covers the A Flat Major scale and primary chords of A Flat Major with the piece “Ecossaise in Ab Major.”

Exercise 65: Key of F Minor

Students will learn the F Minor scale and primary chords in F Minor with the piece “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

Exercise 66: Key of Db Major

This exercise introduces the Db Major scale and primary chords in Db Major with the piece “Clair de Lune.”

Exercise 67: Key of Bb Minor

Students will learn the Bb Minor scale and primary chords in Bb Minor with the piece “Variations of Prelude and Fugue No. 2.”

Exercise 68: Less Common Time Signatures

This section covers less common time signatures: G Flat Major, C Flat Major, F Sharp Major, C Sharp Major, and their scales.

Level 3 Review

A review of concepts covered in Level 3 to reinforce learning.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Online Piano Course by Mohr Music School

1. What is the structure of the Online Piano Course?

The Online Piano Course by Mohr Music School is designed to accommodate various skill levels, from beginners to advanced pianists. The course is divided into three progressive levels, each containing a series of exercises, video tutorials, and practice pieces to ensure comprehensive learning.

2. Can I access the course materials anytime?

Yes! Once you enroll in the Online Piano Course, you will have 24/7 access to all course materials. This allows you to learn at your own pace and revisit lessons as needed, making it perfect for busy schedules.

3. What makes Mohr Music School’s course unique?

Mohr Music School combines traditional teaching methods with innovative online learning techniques. Our unique curriculum incorporates gamification elements, interactive exercises, and personalized feedback, ensuring an engaging learning experience that stands out from conventional piano lessons.

4. Do I need prior music experience to enroll?

No prior music experience is necessary to start the Online Piano Course. Our program is designed to guide you from the very basics, including note identification and key positions, to more complex concepts, ensuring a smooth learning curve for everyone.

5. What type of piano do I need for the course?

While having a digital piano or acoustic piano is ideal for practice, any keyboard that has at least 61 keys can work for the course. This flexibility allows you to begin learning without needing to invest in an expensive instrument right away.

6. Are there opportunities for live interaction with instructors?

Yes! Mohr Music School offers periodic live Q&A sessions and masterclasses with experienced instructors. These sessions provide students with valuable opportunities to ask questions and receive guidance in real-time, enhancing the learning experience.

7. How does the course incorporate music theory?

The Online Piano Course includes dedicated modules on music theory. Students will learn essential concepts such as scales, chords, and key signatures, which are integrated into practical exercises. This approach ensures that you understand the theoretical foundations while applying them to your piano playing.

8. Can I use a tablet or smartphone for the course?

Absolutely! The Online Piano Course is fully optimized for use on various devices, including tablets and smartphones. This mobile compatibility allows you to learn and practice whenever and wherever you prefer, making it convenient for all learners.

9. Is there a community or forum for students?

Yes, Mohr Music School fosters a vibrant online community where students can connect, share their progress, and collaborate. Our forums and social media groups provide a supportive environment for learners to motivate each other and exchange tips, enhancing the overall educational experience.

10. What happens if I have technical issues during the course?

If you encounter any technical issues while accessing course materials, our dedicated support team is available to assist you. You can reach out via email or through the support portal, ensuring that your learning experience remains seamless and enjoyable.

Enroll Today!

Ready to start your musical journey? Enroll in our online piano course today and take the first step toward mastering the piano. With lifetime access to 68 video lessons and 68 printable exercise sheets, you will have everything you need to become a confident piano player.

Whether you're a beginner or an advanced player, our structured lessons and interactive approach to learning piano will make it easy and enjoyable for you to reach your musical goals. Sign up now and start playing piano like a pro!