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Piano Repertoire and Lessons for Those Who Want to Read Music Like a Grownup
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THE STAFF-TO-KEYS SOLUTION
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Don’t just learn the note names, learn to GO to the keys efficienctly. With the Staff-to-Keys solution you’ll learn to read music comprehensively so you can skip the infantilizing method books and get right to real music.
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BEYOND THE NOTES
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Hi! I'm Randy Peck, a classical piano teacher with a Master's degree in Piano Performance and 20 years of teaching experience. I'm a total enthusiast for the best pieces that work for learning piano.
Most adult beginners struggle in the bridge between beginning to late-intermediate repertoire because piano lessons are childish, so I specialize in teaching grownups the repertoire that will prepare you for the masterpieces.
My mission is to restore music literacy to your education, to save you from the pitfalls of dumb apps, rote-learning, YouTube "tutorials", AI slop, and alternative notation gimmicks that won't serve you in the long-run.
Join me in Measure by Measure and discover how to enjoy your practice while learning real music and developing lasting skills.
Is "Measure by Measure" For You?
Measure by Measure
CONTENT LIBRARY NO. 1
The "Piano Principles"
Besides learning wonderful classical pieces that are perfect for grownup pianists, you'll learn piano principles that will change your approach to practice.
What Do We Do?
Learn Like a Grown Up
First we’ll simplify your existing approach with an easy, high-leverage system that is guaranteed to progress your music every day. Not only will you have a framework for working through your music of choice, you’ll learn in the context of actual piano pieces. Turn the note-learning process into an easy warm-up, then summon your creativity early in your practice to make every new phrase fulfilling and fun. You’ll play expressively and beautifully every day with less effort. You’ll review “fresh” phrases easily to make your efforts feel lasting. Your accuracy will improve and your confidence will grow as you witness incremental (but thrilling) progress every day. Mostly, you’ll “cook” with new material every day while your previous work marinates and gets better without much extra effort.
Sight Reading Secrets - Your Bridge to Piano Literacy
Next you’ll learn Sight Reading Secrets. You will engage your personal music strength (you have one, and if you don’t know it I’ll help you discover it). You’ll then learn to isolate your weaknesses and read sheet music by exploiting only your best natural strengths. Your senses will coordinate and you’ll learn to overcome habits that have kept you back in the past. You will support your "super power” in the context of spontaneous sight reading. It will improve as you unlock latent skills as you do deep learning on long-term repertoire.
Not only will you learn a routine of practice that seems to propel itself, you’ll learn principles of musicality that you can draw on at any moment to play expressively.
Your skills deepen not through learning harder and harder pieces, but by layering on musicality in ways that help the essence of the music surface. Your mastery of balance, pedal, tone production, and dynamic control are all issues at play. You’ll notice a new connection to your instrument and an ability to “flip a switch” to summon your new expressive piano skills in all your future music making.
The Sight Reading Secrets principles will help you too ...
- Identify your unique musical strength (you have one and I'll help you uncover it)
- Unleash your spontaneous sight reading skills like never before
- Finally play confidently without even glancing at your hands
- Overcome visual overwhelm and anxiety when looking at sheet music
- Learn the guiding principles for best-practice fingerings, on the fly
- Eliminate hesitations, hiccups and double-takes in your piano reading
CONTENT LIBRARY NO. 2
The "Repertoire Refinery"
In this carefully curated library of repertoire, we'll go "Measure by Measure" through forgotten piano pieces that were composed specifically for people like you.
Roll Over, Beethoven
Teaching piano for nearly 20 years taught me the best area of music for helping students absorb piano skills. This area of piano music has been neglected (to the detriment of piano education) by almost every online teacher!
I'm referring to the forgotten music of the contemporaries of the famous composers.
You've heard of Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin, but most don't realize there were hundreds of composers who lived in the shadows of the masters. Since they didn't receive the same kind of fame, they didn't all become "legends" of classical music.
In many cases, the composers were just as talented as the "wigged" composers you see on busts in music schools. They spoke the same musical language, and they often studied alongside, or were students of the masters.
Composers like Thomas Attwood (Mozart’s student), Carl Reinecke (a protégé of Mendelssohn), Burgmuller, Gedike, Heller, Scharwenka and many many more!
To make a living they published music specifically for people who were looking for great sheet music to play at home. This is was "amateur" piano market, and in the mid-to-late 1800's every middle-class home aspired to have a piano.
Why? Because there were no radios yet. And because of this amazing period of history, hundreds of amazing works of art were published that work wonderfully on the piano and satisfy an advanced learner's appetite for sophisticated music.
These pieces are miniature masterpieces. They sound so good, and they're more accessible to pianists who don't necessarily practice for hours a day. They require the same skills to play, but a fraction of the discipline and dedication.
Some of the beautiful pieces featured in the Measure by Measure lessons
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
This piece is a transcription of a piece written for Violin and Viola by GF Handel. Halvorsen arranged it for piano and it's one of the most beautiful "Passacaglia". What makes it great is the opportunity to build a theme over a repeated left hand pattern, which also prepares you for music with challenging left-hand, like works by Chopin and other romantic composers.
Flotow: Prayer from the Opera "Stradella"
This prayerful melody gives you the chance to practice balancing between the hands, shaping a phrase in the right hand, and controlling a left hand accompaniment. Not only will you learn great skills, you'll sound beautiful in the process.
Moniuszko - Chimes from the Opera "The Haunted Manor"
Opera transcriptions often provide excellent music for beginner and early-intermediate students because it was composed with the intention of telling a story. While most of the well-known piano composers wrote most of their pieces in well-known forms (like Sonatas), they don't exactly spark the feeling of a story. Imaginative playing can come from many places, but I love pieces like this that showcase a relatable enchanted vibe.
Heller, Op. 138 No. 19 - Tziganyi
Inspired by Hungarian folk music, Stephan Heller composed many short pieces that are beautiful, fun to play, and teach amazing piano skills. Playing music like this before trying to tackle Liszt, Chopin, or Scriabin is a must.
From Piano Readers Like You
“It's like having a personal one-on-one lesson on specific pieces of music. Randy's approach has helped me to try music that I would not otherwise have tried, much less would I have found it on my own. It's all excellent and I think that I have found a great resource to promote my ongoing music practice and piano.”
- Ken H.
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“The biggest revelation was that I could start with real music that I wanted to play instead of starting with a method book that was designed for kids.”
- Kathy L.
(member)
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FREE GIFT NO. 1
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THE STAFF-TO-KEYS SOLUTION
A UNIQUE APPROACH TO BEGINNING RIGHT
FREE GIFT NO. 2
$120 Value
BEYOND THE NOTES
RELATIONSHIPS IN PIANO READING
FREE GIFT NO. 3
$147 Value
COUNT OUT LOUD
A UNIQUE APPROACH TO BEGINNING RIGHT
FREE GIFT NO. 4
$249 Value
7 HABITS FOR
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Frequently Asked Questions
In Measure by Measure, we start with the basics, to make sure you're confident reading music. The trainings is concise, comprehensive and practice-oriented. After that, your job is to apply the frameworks to all the music you learn. Lots of beginner-friendly music is in the library of lessons.
The Repertoire Refinery is full of hidden gems especially for intermediate students. Yes - Measure by Measure is great for intermediate students, all the way to early-advanced students.
It is self-paced. I'm here to point you in the right direction and answer questions whenever you need.
I'll keep you engaged as I roll out new content and repertoire for the membership, but you can work through it at whatever pace feels comfortable. If you have a busy month, just pick up where you left off or start a new piece - it's very flexible.
To access any of the content you’ll need a current subscription. You will lose access to the Measure by Measure content, but you will retain access to the Piano Notes Bootcamp Beginner Bundle content after the end of your last-paid month of membership once you cancel. See the Terms of Service for more details.
Yes. You can cancel any time. After you cancel you won't be charged again.
Yes. $270 per year saves you $54 and grants you access to the Technique module (check out above and see the next page for annual perks).
You can upgrade to annual at any time and it will prorate your current billing period towards the annual. If you upgrade before a free trial expires, your trial will be cancelled and you will make the first payment immediately.
Mostly classical music.
You can apply the principles you learn to any other music. With this approach, you will see more carry-over than you can imagine.
I use classical music for a couple of reasons - one is to make sure that I comply with all copyright laws. Most programs illegally use copyrighted music without obtaining a license to use it.
My experience teaching piano for over 20 years also taught me that this music is the best venue for learning skills at the piano, regardless of your goals. If you want to play classical, jazz, pop, gospel, or anything in between, there is no disadvantage to learning classical music as your foundation, but huge disadvantages if you do not. It will only serve you in the long run.
Yes, there is a community feature to the program for asking questions and feedback opportunities. I consider the community a “perk”, not a core feature of the program. It’s there for us to use and I engage in it as best as I can, but it’s not required for your use of the program.
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