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    Hi everyone!

    It's been a while since we posted on the blog, as we have been writing constant short news updates in our chat room -but today, I am writing to you today to share some really exciting news!

    These have been the best days of my life...

    After almost three years of intense development with the help of more than fifty collaborators - which included pianists, writers, editors, graphic designers, and developers from different corners of the world - I'm proud to announce that our Digital Home-Study Course: "The Logic Behind Music" is finally ready and looking truly amazing. My team and I have taken the lessons, the animations, the graphics, and the presentation to perfection, paying great attention to detail. This course has really become everything we dreamed about!

    With this course, the history of piano learning has changed forever.

    THE PIANO LEARNING REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!

    Throughout history, revolutions have changed the way we think, live, and learn. The leaders of revolutions have long been applauded for their bravery and determination; for using their ideas to better the lives of everyone around them.

    Today, my team and I are adding a new chapter to the book of music history by presenting our revolution to the conventional piano-learning method.

    Our method is not based on rules, but on logic and understanding. We don't intend to teach prospective pianists to play without understanding the music. Opposite to the conventional piano-teaching methods, our techniques do not enslave the students with a set of complex rules that only a few can understand, and that only professional musicians are able to master after a lifetime of dedication to music.

    Mastery of the art of music composition and improvisation will no longer be limited to the skillful and gifted musicians who are able to devote their entire life to music and piano learning. EVERYONE will be able to enjoy playing, improvising, and composing on the piano -and that's what this revolution is really about.

    Let me give you a sneak peek into what our Digital Home Study Course "The Logic Behind Music" includes:


    Here is what you will get with our Digital Home-Study Course:

    • The Logic Behind Music's Main Lessons, with all of the music secrets that helped each of the musicians and pianists on our team reach a new level of music understanding.
    • The Logic Behind Music's Four Piano Practice Booklets full of enriching exercises, so you can take all of the music concepts you are learning into practice with your piano or keyboard.
    • The Logic Behind Music's Three Reference Books: Expand your knowledge with the Multimedia Books, master all of the fundamental Intervals, Chords and Scales, and gain access to hundreds of interactive Piano reference charts.
    • A Gold-Membership Account in The Piano Encyclopedia's community, so that you can access Premium Exclusive Areas, ask questions, share your progress, parcipate in music contests, and interact with other musicians and pianists that are taking the same lessons as you.
    • More than five hundred (500+) Pages of Unique Content
    • More than two thousand (2000+) Interactive Animations
    • Thousands of Piano Chord, Scale, and Interval Recordings
    • Virtual Piano Keyboards and exclusive Piano Encyclopedia technology, so that you can follow the lessons and practice even if you are far away from your piano or keyboard.

    Preview of The Logic Behind Music

    The most common problem we've encountered is that most pianists are limited to just reading and playing music. That is, most pianists are just 'interpreters' and lack the necessary skills to be able to improvise or compose music. What we recognized is that it is not the students' fault... it's actually the way they're taught. Very few teachers know this, and very few private teachers actually teach this in a practical way.

    In my case, I spent more than ten years without much real progress, other than learning more and more pieces, which I would then forget as the years passed. Then I was shown some simple but powerful concepts that changed everything for me, and nowadays I just sit at the piano and improvise or create my own music. This is something I thought was completely impossible... something that I considered out of my reach no matter how hard I practiced... and no teacher would teach.

    We want to change this worldwide.

    We want to eliminate this frustration for every piano player out there.

    Eight months ago, we were (and still are) the first piano site on  the Internet to release an eBook of more than twenty pages for free. We released our 111-page Music Fundamentals eBook as a gift to the Piano community.

    Today, that content has been enriched with interactive multimedia content and is now part of just the first chapters of our Digital Home-Study Course: "The Logic Behind Music." The report was a complete success, and the comments we have received far exceeded our expectations

    These are just five out of more than fifty comments we received, taken directly from the messages:

    "Hi Rod,

    I just found your website a week ago and I can say that even though the report is free, it is the best 111 pages of music I have ever touched. I
    could not believe that there exist such logic to music playing
    . Maybe
    this is what differentiates average piano players and the exceptional ones
    .

    I began to play piano again this past two months after 10 years of idling. I
    practice for more than two hours each day, and after I read the report, the
    music sheets suddenly become so much more clear than ever before.

    I have a
    dream of being able to play piano on stage, and with what’s coming, I don’t
    think it is impossible anymore
    .",

    Wilson Tjandra

    “Hi Rod,

    I’m currently reading your report and I must admit it is fantastic!
    I’ve been studying piano for some years, giving up and starting again quite a lot of times. Your personal history is very similar to mine The project is a great idea and it will help a lot of people.

    I’ve never found something similar in the internet!” ,

    Desi

    "Thank You! Thank You! as a retired engineer with no musical experience, you have made an apparent arbitrary system logical."

    Bruce Woods

    "
    Just finished first lesson. My mother (who is a piano teacher) wasn’t able to teach me this much in past oh, god knows how many years with her conventional approach (sorry, Mom). I’ll definitely show her this website. Can’t wait to start a second lesson. Thanks for doing this, guys",

    Ana

    "Hello. I have looked on different websites to try and find something that would help me on chords, and this was the best and easiest approach. My husband and I go to church, where everyone has some type of music ability. I’ve never been cordinated or very consistant in anything I’ve tried to play.

    This has helped me, along with prayer. I am very thankful to have found such a wonderful way of teaching, thank you very
    much for that!"

    Jennette

    "Thanks to you and to the whole team for this amazing project that will help a lot of people to understand how music works!

    Now I can say: "i'm understanding music!"

    William Rivera

    "This is with no doubt one
    of the greatest piano learning material on the internet.",

    cod3name47, Sweden (Youtube.com)

    "Dear Rod

    I thank you very much for this website, in my point of view I would say it will most likley contribute into the comeback and the revolution of the piano once again.

    I thank you very much for this. This website will help so many people with there piano work and create a useful(unlike the others online) piano community which can discuss and help students/teachers with real piano issues! I am happy to finally see all the pianos needed information to be gathered in one single site and will be using this site and contributing to it
    without doubt.

    Sincerely,"

    Ali Janahi

    (You will find more than fifty amazing testimonials and reviews in our blog.)

    Today, our Digital Home Study-Course "The Logic Behind Music" is finished, and we truly believe that with this course we´ll be changing how you learn on the piano.

    After so much work and dedication, I can tell everyone that this is really a dream come true for us.

    This couldn´t have been possible without all the people who contributed and believed that their vision of changing piano learning was possible, and dedicated their time and energy to work as a part of our team toward a common goal.

    And most importantly, this wouldn´t have begun without the support of the internet piano community: people who visited our site, offered us their support by leaving a message or comment, and subscribed to our site which gave us the energy to make this dream come true.

    For this reason, to thank all the followers of our site, we´ll be making all of our newsletter subscribers part of our special pre-release offer, which will allow them to access our Digital-Home Study Course at a special price before it's released to the public.

    Since this course is now fully completed, we are now working on completely redesigning our site to honor all these years of development, and  preparing everything for the official launch date - which will be announced upon the end of the pre-release.

    Exciting times have begun for The Piano Encyclopedia, and for all of the piano players around the world.

    On behalf of our team, I truly thank you for supporting The Piano Encyclopedia and I am proud to be sharing this thrilling  news with all of our followers.

    Enjoy!

    Best wishes,

    Rod Schejtman

    P.S: If you are already subscribed, please know that all pre-releases will be occurring during the next few weeks (starting this week), giving priority to the followers who subscribed first.

    If you haven´t subscribed yet, but don´t want to wait for the official release date and wish to get our Digital Home Study Course at a special price before anyone else, make sure you join our newsletter now. (Click here to join our newsletter)  We´ll consider you for our special pre-release price, depending on your subscription date.

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    Hi Everyone! :grin:

    These last three months have been of intense work and incredible results!

    We'll be posting a more detailed post after the celebrations, next week, but just to give you a sneak-peek ahead,
    let me tell you shortly some of the news:

    • Our next release is called:

    The Logic Behind Music

    Mastering the Secrets to
    Music Composition and Improvisation
    in a Practical Way

    • It will be The Piano Encyclopedia's first "Digital Home-Study Course"! :cool:   . The reason it's no longer called The Piano Encyclopedia's "Main Lessons", is because after so many works of intense work from our graphic designers, musicians, writers, editors, and developers,  the lessons we have finished writing are so complete, and we have packed them with so much content, that it is really a Home Study Course what we have finally achieved in the last months.It spans over two full-multimedia volumes, with interactive piano-charts, and tools for mastering composing and improvising! We'll be releasing  Volume 1 in the very next few weeks!  :D   Volume 2 will take us at least three weeks or more.  We also had a new graphic designer and musician from Philippines, Dante,  join our team (yes! he also plays in a music band and is a musician as well as a professional designer with lots of talent),  and he has helping us design some really cool new interactive graphics for our lessons. Also with the help of Imran (web designer from India), Alan and Brian (very talented web-designers from Argentina) and other members that have contributed in the ideas, making, and conversion of  the graphics we outlined with Dante, we now have an interactive Circle of Fifths, and interactive tools for analyzing and creating chord progressions, and many more stuff that we have made along the way that just make music much easier to understand!  It's really looking fantastic! (I'll post the previews of that soon!)
    • Also, as we finished with the writing we had more time to dedicate it to the community, which will be completely integrated to the Digital-Home Study Course, so everyone can join the conversation and ask questions. We spent so much time with this since we wanted to release everything together. Today the Piano Encyclopedia's new Community development has been finished and the graphics and interface have been completely redesigned! We had the fortune of incorporating into our team a new Graphic Designer -who is also a musician- (yes another musician and graphic designer!) this time from Puerto Rico (yes! we're really proud of our team!) who has helped us redesign the graphics of the community anew. William Rivera is a fantastic person and very talented and professional in what he does, and with his design skills he has helped us redesign completely our community. With the initial contributions of Gan (web designer), Chinju (web designer), Prakash (web developer), Joan (talented web developer from Philipiness, and our community Administrator), and other team members,  the community has progressed and evolved a lot.  And now with the addittion of William to the team,  who has helped us in making a complete redesign of the looks and user interface ...  the community is now looking much better than before, much easier and user friendlier! - And it is now READY to be used! Take a sneak peek here below!  :wink:

      The Piano Encyclopedias New Community

    • And.. we're also upgrading our servers, and with this upgrade at the end of next week, you'll start seeing the links to the new community! From that point on, we'll start the bigger private alpha testing, and shortly start sending invitations to The Piano Encyclopedia's VIP followers, and then all the followers on our list, that joined our newsletter! So everyone will get to try our new community as we go along, and as we polish up all the features along the way while we let more members in.

    Stay tuned for next week! I'll be posting more news about our Digital Home-Study Course, and posting previews! The lessons are really looking incredible, and I assure you'll definitely agree that the wait was really worth it, because if you guys enjoyed Music Fundamentals (our 110 page eBook), you won't believe how good this is! We're really looking forward to change piano learning for the better, and we have worked more than a year to make this possible, so I am extremely confident that you'll certainly LOVE "The Logic Behind Music". It has everything you guys have been asking over the past many months, all combined together: real practical lessons that combine the experiences of many musicians and show how to master music composition and improvisation, sounds, animations, interactive  chord/ scale/ interval piano-charts, tools for improvising and composing music, real harmony examples from real songs and across different music styles, much more ... and even a community for everyone to discuss what they are learning and share their piano recordings!  ...

    Whoa... It really has been a LOT of work with many people involved! But the results are really worth it :smile: . What we have made it's not just a 'product' - it's definitely a "piano-learning" experience, and this (and what's coming) is what we had envisioned at the beginning of this project, so we're all really proud of our work. The community is finished. Now stayed tuned, as I'll be updating you on the release of Volume 1 of The Logic Behind Music in the very next few weeks.

    Next week, more updates and previews of The Piano Encyclopedia's first Digital Home-Study Course "The Logic Behind Music"!

    In the name of the whole team,
    I wish a Happy Easter and Passover to everyone!

    Best wishes,

    Rod

    P.S: Always make sure to check the Community Chat Room to get a sneak-peek into the latest news! Much things have been going around there and you will also get to meet some very nice people that are also following our development. Evenmore, you might get to meet some of the team's members that get online everyonce in a while! Make sure to check it out! I usually always post the first news over there!!!

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