The Piano Theory Course: 25 Video Lessons

Most people who learn piano from videos end up with a pile of songs and no thread between them. You can play five pieces, and the sixth still has to be learned from scratch, because nothing you learned in the first five transfers.

Theory is that thread. It is the difference between memorising a chord shape and knowing why the chord is built that way, which means you can build the next one yourself.

Twenty five lessons in twelve units, plus a full demonstration lesson, filmed at the piano with the keyboard in view.

Units 1 to 3, the ground. Keyboard orientation, musical intervals, triad chords, chord inversions, major scales, scale degrees.

Units 4 to 6, how music moves. Chord progressions, minor scales, the circle of fifths.

Unit 7, seventh chords. Sevenths, their inversions, their progressions, and the major seventh.

Units 8 and 9. Chord substitutions in major and in minor, and the diatonic circle.

Unit 10. Secondary dominants, followed by a full tutorial on Guess Why They Call It The Blues.

Unit 11. Sus and moldur chords, followed by a full tutorial on I Just Called To Say I Love You.

Unit 12. Ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, and the two five one with extensions.

Lifetime access on one private page, one payment, no subscription, nothing to install. You do not need to read music to take this course.

Taught by David Yzhaki, who has taught piano online since 2008 at piano-play-it.com.