Founder's Message

A lady in her 60's came to one of my workshops and proudly showed me the "adult" piano course she was taking. I will not mention the name of said course, but I opened the book in the middle, and guess what the song was? — "London Bridge is Falling Down"! Did you know that you can go to any music store and look at their so-called "adult" and "children" courses and they are virtually identical?

Another thing that never ceases to amaze me is that here we are in the 21st Century and most piano teachers (and schools, for that matter) still use the same 17th-Century methods that Mozart and Beethoven used.

Like so many aspiring players, I took years of these boring old piano lessons as a child. I hated them! Not long after these lessons ceased, I forgot practically everything I had learned! Now I've been teaching piano since 1994 and I've heard the same story countless times. People have told me that they have taken as much as 5, 7, even up to 12 years of lessons with very little or no success as adults! This might even be your story. Thank God I discovered the power of chords at age 27. Within a year, I became the piano player of my church.

In 1994 I discovered my passion for teaching piano when I was trained by the founder of the Australian-based Music Logic Method to become his first teacher in North America. I always felt however that through the use of chords I had a faster and much easier way to teach adults popular music. I eventually stopped teaching the Music Logic Method determined to develop my own unique approach based on the shortcuts and strategies I picked up and adopted over the years in my own playing. This has since evolved into The Amazing Chord Power System®.

You see, as a "late bloomer" I didn't want to waste any time in getting from point A to point B so I just didn't accept everything I read in music books and instead developed my own easier systems. These accomplished the same thing the other methods were teaching except you got there a lot faster and with less effort!

Since creating The Amazing Chord Power System®, I have personally taught well over a thousand middle-aged and older adults in Western Canada. With my all-new 9th Edition it is now possible to coach you, my new adult student (either by phone or online) wherever you may be in North America or the world to the fulfillment of your piano playing dreams!