Learn while you play with private piano lessons for adults, designed especially for you.
Don’t just learn how to play piano. Learn how to enjoy it
With online piano lessons for adults
There are a lot of ways to learn piano these days.
There are piano method books, Youtube videos about how to learn piano, and “there’s an app for that.” These resources are a starting place when you are trying to learn how to play piano, but when you are ready to dig deep into music and learn piano in a detailed way, it’s time to set goals and explore new connections with remote piano lessons.
These private piano lessons for adults are a program of consistent weekly one on one online piano lessons for adults, designed to start wherever you are and move you into meeting your dreamiest goals and playing all of your favorite songs.
You love music, but don’t know where to start? Or you have all of the music and the best intentions, but can’t remember the last time you sat at the piano? This joy-based process for learning piano as an adult was designed to make you excited to play piano.
Taking online piano lessons for adults with Kelsey will give you a comprehensive understanding of music as a language. In these private piano lessons for adults, you will learn applicable and versatile skills on the piano, and will be motivated by your own dreamy goals.
Having Kelsey as a Zoom piano teacher means you will be learning from her wide range of knowledge and adaptable teaching style, not bound to rigid rules or competitive motivators. Through a series of remote piano lessons, Kelsey will help you make the commitment to your goals and to yourself as you work towards the powerful gratification of learning an instrument.
Look, you’ve tried this before.
Maybe it was childhood piano lessons, or more recently, a new dance class or a daily drawing practice. But for some reason nothing seems to stick. Despite your genuine enthusiasm and dedicated attempts, few weeks in you always hit a wall. Suddenly, it’s just not fun anymore.
You want to make music and love every second of remote piano lessons, but you’re afraid that online piano lessons for adults are going to get really hard. Or that you’ll get bored with private piano lessons for adults and stop practicing piano!
The thing is, you love music!
🎧You have a playlist full of songs that would sound so cool on the piano.
💻You’ve watched the freebie how to play piano videos and started the free trial of that app that promises to make you a virtuoso.
🎹You’ve bought instruments or beginner books that never get played because you don’t know where to start.
🎶You might have already had a teacher, but something just wasn’t clicking.
You know what works for you and what doesn’t!
But somehow, you haven’t pushed through that wall, and your favorite song is still just an idea sitting on the highest shelf in the back of your mind.
I know it’s hard to take that next step
It feels embarrassing to admit, but sometimes it takes years to alchemize an idea and transform it into action.
The thing is... you could be learning that song right now!
Every day that you sit at the piano or taking a remote piano lesson is a day closer to your goal. And if you’re not sitting at the piano because no one will know otherwise... private piano lessons for adults might be the extra nudge that you need.
You deserve to have that feeling of playing the melody you love on the piano. Have you ever put on a really cool song, turned the volume all the way up, and just jammed out on the piano along with it?
The sensation is like stepping out of this moment and becoming your favorite artist, instantly. It’s a feeling you’ve got to try! Having the accountability of online piano lessons for adults can give you the skills and musical confidence you need to get to that place.
Learning how to play piano or taking private piano lessons for adults can seem like too much. But with a few small shifts in perspective, you can learn to see it as a series of simple, repeating patterns. With a reframe, you’ll learn how to approach learning piano as an adult it as a form of play, and walk away with seriously heightened skill every time!
...Did you forget that you already know the most about the music you love? You’re an expert about the music that brings you the most joy.
If you already love music, then starting private piano lessons for adults is the easy part
There’s no way you won’t love playing that music on the piano. Yes, it’s new and challenging, but you’re going to have so much fun breaking this challenge down and rocking out to your favorite music while you get better and better through your online piano lessons for adults.
You will play piano because you want to, just for fun.
What if you spent twenty minutes less scrolling or zoning out on streaming channels, and twenty minutes more engaging with my joy, curiosity, and creativity?
What if I spent 20 minutes engaging with my most expressive voice?
It’s time to stop waiting and start playing piano!
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First, we'll set your goals
Together, we’ll pick a balance of music during your zoom piano lessons to strengthen all of your skills and to infuse your practice with joy.
🥬 The key to creating a piano practice that you’ll stick with is finding the leafy greens of piano that will grow your skills & knowledge easily because they are sooo good for you, and..
🍒 Always having a cherry on top during your piano practice will ensure that you have something you love that you will practice again and again. This is probably going to be your favorite music to learn, and the most challenging!
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Then, we'll tap into systems of spiralic learning
〰️This means that no matter where you’re at in your piano journey, we’ll cover all of the details. You’ll finally have a word for that squiggly line in the middle of the sheet music, and you’ll know how to play it on piano, too.
🌀Each time we visit a concept in music during our zoom piano lessons, we will deepen our understanding and learn a new layer about how it functions when we zoom out and look at the big picture.
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You won't do it alone
🌿In addition to the accountability we share, you will be learning the cultural context that makes music what it is.
🌌After all, music is not created in a vacuum. It is a social and cultural product, a reflection of the ideas of everyone around us and a mirror of ourselves.
💫That’s why it doesn’t make sense to play music that you don’t love just because that’s what everyone has always done. Your piano playing will connect you to the world around you in a new way, letting you make expansive connections internally and externally.
Does this sound like you?
You think about how rewarding it would be to finally learn piano in private piano lessons for adults, but you’re stuck in a holding pattern, waiting for someone to give you that nudge you need.
You’ve learned a song before, and felt so awesome being able to sing or play along. But sometimes when you try to learn a new song on your own without remote piano lessons, you get stuck.
You’ve heard horror stories about piano teachers that shame you for not practicing enough, or you are in personal recovery from having one of these debilitating teachers in the past.
You always have major FOMO at jam sessions and concerts, or when your friends post videos of their new song on their instrument. You know that with online piano lessons for adults, you can do that too!
You want to start remote piano lessons, but you’re not sure what level you’re at, or even what songs you want to learn. All of the music schools in your town focus on teaching kids how to play piano... what about private piano lessons for adults?
You THOUGHT you could learn by yourself, but on top of decoding all of the musical details, it feels impossible to move forward without the accountability of online piano lessons for adults.
You’re really not that into baroque music- your last piano teacher was.
You know that there’s a way for you to play the songs you like, get better at everything on piano, and have fun while you’re doing it!
I get it. I’ve been there!
It’s not a great feeling, to know you’re ready for the next step, and to know you want to have the joy and pride of learning something new, but not knowing where to start.
I’ve had so many times in life that I was ready to learn but wasn’t sure if there was anyone ready to meet me where I was at.
It probably feels like you’ve tried everything to learn piano on your own
You’ve watched the videos
Honestly, you’re pretty good! At that one song... when you’re following along with that video... and as long as no one else is watching...
You downloaded the app
You downloaded the app, and it totally makes sense! Now if only the keys on your piano were highlighted too...
You took piano lessons when you were younger
Playing the songs wasn’t that hard as long as you didn’t have to read the notes or build the chords by yourself.
You tried just winging it
You know... playing random notes, making up songs, and improvising. But it just felt... random? And you weren’t sure how to give it any real meaning or self expression.
You asked your friend/sibling/partner
You asked them to show you how to play piano but now you’re not talking…
Honestly? I love all of these options as a way to learn piano.
They make piano feel more accessible and approachable. But when you’re setting personal musical goals that feel important to you, sometimes you just need more.
Because you know what you want to play on piano! And you love music- you don’t want a negative piano lesson experience to ruin that for you.
You already are a musician. You have all of the intuition and observation that you need to play piano.
You can feel what it’s like to learn new things and enjoy the process. To deepen your understanding while having fun, and engaging with creative play. To be personally expressive and musically reflective in the same breath.
I know what it’s like to feel stuck. To feel shame around not having fast growth, or to be playing the flashiest pieces. I also know how easy it feels to grow at your natural pace, blooming into something new while leaning into the music that truly inspires and motivates you.
That’s why these private piano lessons for adults are unlike anything you’ve experienced yet.
The reasons that these online piano lessons for adults are different from anything you’ve ever experienced?
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Rooted in Joy
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The truth is, you’re only reading this because you want to learn how to play piano. Because you think learning piano will be a fun and worth while way to spend your time these days! And it can be! But we all know someone who has had a bad experience with a music teacher, or pushy parent, and music lost its luster.
The most meaningful form of learning is rooted in joy. Think of kittens playing- they learn how to communicate with each other and practice defense strategies innately, and these become automatic responses to connect them to their community and to defend themselves in fight or flight moments. As children, we learn through play more often than not. Learning through play and joy does two things: it gives us an intuitive, somatic response to the music we are playing, making it easier to learn piano, and it makes it an easy yes that you want to come back to again and again. Because it’s fun!
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Spiralic Systems
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The magic of spiralic learning is that we are all beginners and also we are all experts. Every time that we practice a skill or visit a concept, we learn something new about it.
Think of spiralic learning in private piano lessons for adults like this: you know how when you watched “Dirty Dancing” the 16th time you still saw something new that you’ve never noticed before? I know when I watched it again last week, I heard a song that I swear I’ve never heard before? (”Mama Said,” by the Shirelles. You’re welcome.)
Learning is like that! Every time you try something again, or every time that your piano teacher explains something to you, you will soak up one little bit of it- maybe a lot of bit of it! But you won’t know everything right away. Time and consistency are the keys to learning something in depth. The joy in this? Every time we watch “Dirty Dancing,” we’ll still find something new.
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Connecting
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All music has deep and meaningful cultural stories buried within it. Understanding the roots behind the rhythms, and the legacies that took this musical cliche from obscurity into standard. Music is a way to travel through time and space, and to step into a world away from yours.
It’s this connectivity that started my musical journey and keeps me here. I am driven by telling these musical stories and peeling back layers that often get missed. We will play music by artists from underrepresented groups, and learn their histories through a lenses of cultural context.
This connection goes both ways. By working together to learn piano and develop music, I get to learn about the music that has shaped you, and I always learn about songs and artists that I’ve never heard. There is too much music out there to know it all alone- we will always learn more together.
online piano lessons for adults can demystify the whole experience
Online piano lessons for adults include…
-Subscription packs for 3 months at a time with scheduling flexibility to make it easy for you to commit but flexible enough for your schedule
-Weekly 30 or 60 min zoom piano lessons
-Method book & sheet music recommendations and shared music resources from Kelsey
-A free download of the Music Matrix resource
-Access to Kelsey for questions and help outside of lesson times
These lessons were designed to help busy people prioritize creativity and joy
-easy subscription and scheduling system so that all you have to do is show up for your lesson
-lessons that help you apply best practice techniques so you are learning music in a detailed way, quickly and efficiently
-updated resources and supplemental music as soon as you’re ready for it
-adaptive lessons that meet you where you’re at and move at your pace- you set the tone for what feels right for you
The secret formula for game changing online piano lessons for adults:
the leafy greens of piano
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Sprinkling in sight reading and technique building music throughout private piano lessons for adults in a digestible way to equalize all of your skills and propel you forward quickly
The cherry on top
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Fun and rewarding music that invites joy and challenge into your piano playing during your private piano lessons for adults
Strategies
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Guided practice and high focus strategies used throughout online piano lessons for adults to iron out challenges and learn new music efficiently
Invitations for accountability
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Including hints during your online piano lessons for adults towards practice journals and a nudge to release your finished project into the world by playing it at your next dinner party or video call with your folks
But wait…
Aren’t you classically trained?
How are these online piano lessons for adults any different from regular private piano lessons for adults?
It’s true, I have a degree in Music Education with a primary in piano, and secondary in harp. I’ve taught almost every kind of music class in every type of environment there is- from instrumental classes and choir program, in public schools and private festivals, and in rural and urban spaces- not to mention in person and online.
And here’s what I learned from teaching in such a diverse array of spaces and teaching so many different people of all ages, all over: we learn best when we are engaging with joy and play. When we feel safe and supported, and when we have all of the tools around us.
I had a wonderful and supportive musical upbringing. Once I hit music academia, some of my easy and fun learning hit a wall- I had been so lucky to have engaging and detailed piano teachers growing up, and the hard truth is that professors are not good teachers. They are experts in their topic, but not always experienced educators, and often recite information and expect you to soak it all up and spit it back out. That just didn’t work for me, and I don’t expect it to work for you.
So joining me in online piano lessons for adults means you will experience all of the best practices of music learning that work for new learners paired with all of the detailed and comprehensive information that comes with experience. And it is woven together with your experience and interests at the front. These online piano lessons for adults are customized for you.
I’m ready to step out of fear and into the spotlight!
Here’s how to start online piano lessons for adults.
Complete this quick & easy application form so that I can learn more about your music experiences so far and your favorite styles of music
Schedule your free one on one consultation to get all of your questions answered, and to give us a chance to align all of our resources
Decide whether 30 min or 60 min lessons are the best fit for you
Enroll & and schedule out your first 3 month pack of online piano lessons for adults
Looking for something different?
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Group Piano Classes
Do you actually thrive in group classes, or would rather watch replays on your own time? Check out the group classes and workshops for all levels to find the right fit for yout.
What People are Saying…
“Kelsey is a wonderful piano teacher! I started lessons with her less than a year ago, and I can't believe the progress I've made! She is kind, positive, and encouraging. Her explanations are very clear, and her suggestions for improvement are very helpful and achievable. In addition, she tailors her private lessons to meet the needs and personal goals of her students. It has been a great experience!” ”
— Jeanne
FAQs
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Kelsey’s private piano lessons for adults are all hosted as remote piano lessons, so that you can work with Kelsey as your Zoom piano teacher no matter where you are. These remote piano lessons are designed based on your interests and personal goals, allowing you to choose the focus of your studies, and to be guided by your Zoom piano teacher through new strategies and practices that will help you level up your piano playing and meet your personal piano goals. The lessons are crafted specifically as remote piano lessons for adults.
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They’re the best! Here are a few of my favorite perks of zoom piano lessons:
-You can see your Zoom piano teacher’s piano at a variety of angles and views during remote piano lessons
-You can find a Zoom piano teacher who specializes in private piano lessons for adults
-Remote piano lessons offer extreme flexibility, and you can choose the time that works best for your schedule
-You have a virtual commute- all you need to plan for is the time that it takes to log-in for your zoom piano lessons
-During remote piano lessons, you have the ability to play along with your teacher simultaneously while on mute
-You have the ability during your remote lessons to tune in and work with your Zoom piano teacher from your own personal piano
-Zoom piano lessons allow you record the piano lesson on your own device, so you instantly have access to the lesson to review and practice along with
-Remote piano lessons are super accessible, and come with live captions and transcripts
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Don’t worry, you don’t need a fancy overhead camera to take Zoom piano lessons! That’s your Zoom piano teacher’s job. All you need for remote piano lessons is access to a piano keyboard of some kind and a device with zoom capabilities. Remote piano lessons really are simple, and in our first few lessons I will walk you through best practices for remote piano lessons. Don’t stress out about having the “perfect” set up for your zoom piano lessons. Together, we will find what works best for you!
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Remote piano lessons are an amazing way for adults to learn piano. With a virtual commute and resources to practice along and review the material at your own pace, online piano lessons for adults are customized for your learning and will help you meet your goals on piano. The convenience of taking remote piano lessons can make them a better option than in person lessons if you are having trouble committing the time needed to learn piano.