Changing The Culture of Music Lessons

Traditional piano lessons use a reading-based approach. At Tinkling Ivories Piano Studio use a non-traditional playing-based piano method called Simply Music.

With the Simply Music method you learn how to play the piano by playing the piano. Using single thought processes makes this method so simple everyone can learn to play. It’s easy to follow and a lot of fun. It focuses on the sheer joy of playing the piano.

You will play great sounding songs, with both hands together from your very first lessons. Within your first year of lessons, you will be playing a variety of genres of music including pop, classical, blues and accompaniments. You will have 30-60 songs in your repertoire that you can play anytime, anywhere without relying on sheet music.

After about a year of lessons, we then teach you how to read music.

It doesn’t have to take months or years for you to learn to play music the Simply Music way. We have beginning students play songs, not boring scales or drills. Picture the joy of you or your child being able to play great sounding music after just a few lessons.

Since we focus on the joy of playing great music, there’s no need for exams. We do give out Simply Music completion certificate for each level. 

At the end of the day, being able to play the music you love is what matters.

Our goal is to make music your lifelong companion, not something you used to do.

Imagine being able to just sit down and play your own music, your own way, anytime, without being stuck to a page.  To be able to express yourself creatively and musically.

If you can speak, you can improvise freely. I will teach you how with Simply Music piano lessons.

What if you feel in the mood to play some Blues or Jazz?  You can learn to do this with my program. You could be playing a 12 Bar Blues piece by your 3rd lesson!  All without written music, so you can play anytime, anywhere. Who can resist a little blues and jazz one in a while? The thing about the blues is once you’re hooked, you won’t stop!

Picture this: you at the piano, surrounded by your friends or family, playing your favourite music. Just like they do at the Piano Bar. Whether it be modern Pop, ’80’s music, Elvis, The Beatles or Frank Sinatra. Using the Simply Music Accompaniment Program you can play the music you want to play easily. Or maybe you would like to lead your worship team at Church or play in a band. You could be learning the tools to play Accompaniments by your 4th lesson!

Imagine a piano lesson where you get to feel socially engaged, play duets, collaborate with other musicians, receive feedback from your peers and feel encouraged.  That’s what shared lessons are all about.  They are fun too!

We believe playing should be easy and pain free for everyone. We use the Reese Piano Technique which has successfully enabled students to get back to playing the piano. Imagine being able to play without pain, even if you have arthritis, fibromyalgia or other muscular-skeletal conditions.

Find out more by contacting us for a Free Information Session.

We have both in person piano lessons and online piano lessons.