Contact me for questions, support, comments, feedback, suggestions and requests. Good Luck! I hope that the ‘The Piano Magic Magazine Website’ becomes one of your favorite piano learning resources. Learn, practice, and most of all…. enjoy the music because…. “It’s what your feelings sound like” Enjoy, learn, and most of all… make it fun! Cliff

Totally out of my control is me being over here and you being over there . With so much information available on this website, it can be difficult to keep from ‘jumping around’, trying some of ‘this’ or some of ‘that’. That can sometimes cause problems in your development. Skill development is progressive and must be taken in steps. Jumping into the material more advanced than your level, before you’re ready, can cause confusion and frustration hindering your growth. If you find yourself not understanding certain materials, it’s because you have jumped into areas you’re not ready for. The feeling that you’ll never be able to get this stuff down becomes your mindset. And that’s where I loose you … that is my concern. How do you focus and keep on track? Simple. Stay at your level, understand and complete one thing before moving on to the next. Go slow …. Going slow will have you understanding better, playing better and playing what you want faster. You will understand better, what this means, when you learn about the benefits of slow practice.

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Encouraged and motivated by some very persuasive piano students insisting I have a piano teaching website containing some of my methods and ‘tips and tricks’ of the trade, I have created the ‘ Piano Magic Newsletter Website.’ My name is Cliff Michaels and I teach beginner to intermediate pop & jazz piano in South Florida, USA. (More about me and website… here ) This piano learning website is intended as a resource for the study of, and the enjoyment of playing piano and making music. It’s for students of all ages who’ve obtained ‘some’ knowledge of the piano. It is not for the complete beginner to the piano. You’ll find a variety of subjects on many aspects of learning and playing piano. Your explorations begin with the ‘ learning levels’ link here and always in the menu on top of all pages. So… the prerequisite to using this site successfully is… a basic knowledge of the piano and some music reading ability. I am (sometimes reluctantly) creating an Amazon Kindle beginner/intermediate instruction book/pamphlet serious that go more in dept of many of the subjects presented here. I say “reluctantly”, only because admittedly so, I sometimes find it difficult trying to put ‘on paper’ what I believe can only be taught with that ‘one-on-one’ learning experience of teacher and student. But I will do my best… Check out the ‘ Magical Piano Book Series ’ here…

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• Develop technique & style. Bring out the music that is inside of you. • Learn to create music like a pro. Skills to put the puzzle together. • Insights on all facets of piano playing. • Learn to apply various styles to tunes—versatility is powerful. • Working with lead sheets & fake books (sheet music). • Apply the proper mindset to piano practice and playing. • Practice less, improve faster. Practicing the right way. • The professional way to approach tunes. • Become your own teacher as you learn the tools of the trade. • Fear of performing: Gain performance confidence.

“Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced on this website, mean something different than their usual, customary meaning”