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 "traditional" piano lessons as a child. And not unlike a lot of people, I found them boring and tedious. 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! 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 had the good fortune of being mentored by the creators of 2 international accelerated learning piano methods. I later established studios in Elk Grove (Sacramento area) and Union City (SF Bay area) California.

I always felt however that through the use of chords I had a faster and much easier way to teach adults popular music. I determined to develop my own unique method based on the shortcuts and strategies I picked up and adopted over the years in my own playing. After moving to Canada in 2000, this approach 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®, my team and I have taught thousands of middle aged and older adult students all across North America. Many of them, not too long ago, never dreamed they would be playing beautiful piano music in such an amazingly short time!

"I truly believe that your course should be as widely available as possible to bring the joy of music to anyone who has a keyboard and a desire to learn with a fun and immediately rewarding system." — Lynne McArthur, Edmonton, Alberta