About Piano Guide Lessons

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Piano Guide Lessons is a website consisting of 119 piano lessons that take the student from beginner to advanced level. The lessons are based on the Piano Guide Books, a method designed for busy adults. The lessons include videos, text and mp3 audio files.

The Piano Guide Books and Piano Guide Lessons were written and conceived by Peter Hostage. Mr. Hostage is a professional pianist and private instructor, educated at Berklee College of Music, and on stages throughout New England, and has been teaching children and adults since 1982.

With the experience of teaching hundreds of students over the years, Mr. Hostage developed this curriculum for adults to help the students progress more quickly and easily as compared to the common piano books for adults. (Many of the common adult piano methods are essentially the same material as in the children's books, but "dressed up" to look more "adult.")  The Piano Guide Books and Piano Guide Lessons include more information about music theory, more exercises and etudes and many more complete pieces of music. These lessons are designed to give the student a complete understanding of piano and music in general.

Piano Guide Lessons includes music of many styles including classical, jazz, blues, rock, folk, Latin and more. Some of the classics are composed by the greatest composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and others.

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