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Cost

• Online Version: $99.95, currently discounted to $39.95. 
  Ordering the online version gives you instant access to all the material online for a considerably smaller fee than that of the mail-order version.  All the benefits are the same, except that you do not get the physical package, simply online access to it.

• Book, CD and DVD Version: $199.95 + $14.95 shipping and handling.
  With this, you receive the entire package by mail - books, CDs and DVDs.  You also get access to the online Members Area, but you do not need this to use the course.

• Includes a full 60-day money-back guarantee.  Even if you choose to use this, you will still be allowed to keep the two bonuses: the book, 'Advanced Learning Techniques for Piano' and the software, 'Perfect Your Pitch Pro'.

Features:.

• 218 individual lessons, involving:
  • 133 audio files.
  • 57 video files.
  • Many pictures and diagrams.
  • Several quizzes and many step-by-step instructions.
    
    
• 3 books, including:
  • Rocket Piano Jazz Piano Book:
    • The history of jazz and its features and qualities.
    • The rhythms and rhythmic movements associated with it.
    • Chords and how to use them in jazz songs you will be learning.
  • Rocket Piano Gospel, Spiritual and Hymns Book:
    • The history and theory of gospel and spiritual music.
    • The Pentatonic and Blues scales.
      
      
• 3 games to practice and develop musical skill:
  • Jayde Musica Pro - learn notation by identifying moving musical notes.
  • Chordinator - build on the teaching of Jayde Musica Pro by learning to read chords.
  • Rocket Piano Metronome - develop a good sense of timing.
    
    
• Instant and unlimited access to the online Rocket Piano Members Area.
  
  
• 2 bonus products, entirely free even if you decide not to keep the course itself:
  • Advanced Learning Techniques for Piano - accelerate your piano learning, even when you are away from the piano.
  • Perfect Your Pitch Pro - develop your ear training, so that you can play music from memory and improvise.
    

Editor's Verdict:

Rocket Piano.com is the premier online piano instruction course available.  Featuring everything you would expect of a software or multimedia package, Rocket Piano gives you the option to have all this online at a fraction of the cost.  This is possible because by saving them the inconvenience, labor and materials of having to produce CDs, books and DVDs, you are keeping production costs down, allowing them to pass on the savings directly to you.  If you want the physical package, which is advisable if you do not always have access to the internet, this will cost more.  However, the internet version has everything you will need, and we believe it is the best value for money of any product of its kind you are likely to find.

Because it provides training through many mediums, what you learn is going to be deeper, broader and longer lasting than instruction from a single source can provide.  The multimedia aspect of the course will also benefit those who have difficulty learning from one method only.  Whether you are a visual, audio or kinesthetic learner, Rocket Piano.com will suit you perfectly.  The developers have gone beyond the basics of books, video demonstrations and audio examples - many courses provide these; in this program, you will be aided in your learning by three unique games, developed to enhance your musical training: (i) Jayde Musica Pro (ii) Chordinator and (iii) Rocket Piano Metronome.  With all these features you can immerse yourself entirely in your musical education, learning the important theory as well as the practical skills needed to play.

Most piano courses, although teaching you how to play pieces from different genres, focus their training in the Western Classical tradition.  If you want to learn jazz, for instance, you will normally learn it as an addition to their remainder of your training - the assumption is that this is the best and only place to start.  Rocket Piano, however, does not make this assumption.  As well as providing basic skills required for classical music, the course provides two further books, one each on the areas of jazz and gospel.  In these you can learn the alternative systems to the western tonal system that these have employed, such as the Pentatonic and Blues scales, which are invaluable if you plan to improvise, play in ensembles of this kind or write in these styles.  The books also elaborate on the history of their respective musical areas, something few courses that are designed specifically for pianists ever deal with.  Overall, your education with Rocket Piano is going to be more complete and more sound than with those courses that skim over the details.

There are a small number of features that are lacking, and if you specifically require these you would be best advised to look around elsewhere.  Most notably, Rocket Piano is not a MIDI input program - you cannot attach your MIDI keyboard into it.  This means that the features associated with such a connection are missing: you cannot see if you are making any mistakes, and there is no progress tracking, as in some of this program's competitors.  This can all be seen as an advantage, however - if you do not own a MIDI keyboard already, you will be saving yourself this extra expense.  There is also no animated keyboard, a feature that many courses have, but this is a minor disadvantage in a package that overall is more than adequate to meet your learning needs.

Rocket Piano is one of the most risk-free options available.  To begin with, there is a six-lesson introduction to the course, which you can sign up for simply by entering your first name and e-mail address on the product website.  This is entirely free, and a good introduction to the sort of things you will learn if you buy Rocket Piano (though we should note that at first we had difficulty signing up - the first e-mail is likely to be sent to your spam folder if you have one).  If you like this you can order the program, which comes with a full 60-day money-back guarantee, so if you decide you do not like it at any time in that period, you can get a complete refund.  If you decide to do this, they even let you keep the two bonuses for free!

Rocket Piano is the ideal package for the beginner pianist, especially one on a budget.  It will probably not take you as far or last you as long as our Number 1 choice Learn & Master Piano, but its breadth and depth as well as the many learning styles it supports make it one of the top products of its kind available at the moment.

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