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Heard of dueling pianists? No? Well now you have. One of the reasons I itched to learn piano music was so that I could stride into a dueling piano bar, sit before a baby grand, and challenge a patron or two to a piano fight. The goal is not to break the other pianists’ nose or piano. The goal is to outplay the other pianist song per song, artist per artist. You see, I’m a software developer and while I like what I do and can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing, it also gets to me that the only exciting thing that ever happens to me is making headway in the mountain of scripts I sometimes get snowed under. There’s something incredibly slick about being a music man in some seedy bar somewhere, plunking away at the ivories while an appreciative audience drunkenly asks for “encore” or yells its approval.

Now, I’m not a gifted pianist. I know my way around the keyboard but I make more noise than music, more ruckus than melody. But I’m also a guy with focus. I wanted to learn piano music and I didn’t rest until I found the most effective program for learning piano. ‘Rocket Piano’ was one of the best resources I got my hands on. For only $40, I got access to modules that took me from beginner to mid-level player in less than two weeks. Not only did the kit make me learn piano music, it did so full-on and at full speed!
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Jenny, a college student, plays the drum in a band, runs track, waits tables 12 hours a week, and still finds time to continue learning the piano. How does she do it? She uses ‘Rocket Piano’.

Martin is married. He is a software developer like I am, hits the gym three days a week, and helps his wife take care of their four kids. He also dabbles in Internet marketing and in learning the piano. How does he find time to do this? He uses ‘Rocket Piano’.

In her bestselling piano learning kit, “Rocket Piano’, Ruth Searle shares how anyone can fast-track learning the piano using an easy, step-by-step method that leaves nothing out and yet, yields results fast. The principle behind the ‘Rocket Piano’ system is simple: in learning the piano, you learn more and quicker when you study smarter, not harder. Accordingly, piano playing should be fast, fun, and enjoyable — and this was precisely the experience Jenny, Martin, and I got when we tried ‘Rocket Piano’. Jenny, by the way, is my niece and Martin is my friend. We learned piano together and discovered how to achieve more for less, with less, in less - that is, for less money, with less work, and in less time.
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In my two previous posts, I raved about how I learned to play piano quickly and on a tight budget. What I did not share was the real reason I wanted to know how to learn the piano. See, I’m a software developer and while I love what I do and still can’t believe anyone would want to pay me for doing something I enjoy, playing piano has got to be the one skill I could least benefit from. It would not make me a better coder, for example, or help me run cross-country faster. Still, I wanted to find out how to learn the piano because of three all-important reasons.

1. I wanted life beyond the swivel chair.
Coding makes me happy, that’s a given, but staying too long in a cubicle warps the spine and completely destroys a human being’s ability to feel joy. Dilbert said this first but I’m saying it now. I wanted a life that did not involve html, javascripting, and php coding… and I found it. After learning to play piano thanks to ‘Rocket Piano’, my playing improved by leaps and bounds. Before long, I became part of a band that played in seedy joints all over the U.S and Australia.
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On any given day, we do a lot of juggling. We juggle tasks. We juggle appointments. We juggle priorities, slotting them according to their order of importance. It’s exhausting, this activity of doing so much juggling. And yet somewhere in between tasks, appointments, and activities, we know we just have to toss learning to play piano in. We can’t NOT learn to play piano. It’s food for the soul, inspiration for the spirit, fuel for weary minds that pull 80-hour workweeks. Learning to play piano is not just about learning a new skill. More than anything else, it’s about getting to do something we have always dreamed of doing but never had the time or money for.
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Whatever type of music you are into, from classical to the blues or jazz, wouldn’t it be more fun to listen to music that you can easily play yourself? I’m betting a month’s paycheck your answer is yes.  However, the long boring hours and the repetitive drills may just do you in. You see, while playing piano is fun, learning to play it isn’t always. And if you’re anything at all like me, you would probably turn to your best friend, Google, for answers and google how to learn piano without putting yourself to sleep.

Fortunately, you need not search far and wide for a good guide. Ruth Searle created ‘Rocket Piano’ with people like you in mind. She came up with ‘Rocket Piano’ by cleverly integrating fun and education into one super package that makes the best use of your musicality (or even lack thereof) and improves your learning curve by leaps and bounds! The program is fast and easy and literally shows you how to learn piano at rocket-speed!
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