Maybe you are looking for a way to start playing the piano but are not quite ready to hire an instructor. Maybe you are a more advanced piano player and want to explore new types of music. A piano DVD could be just what you need. Here are 3 of the most popular piano DVD choices.

10 Easy Lessons! Piano Beginner Book, CD and DVD set hosted by Gary Turner.

This is an easy to follow and friendly introduction to chord and melody playing, most suitable for children under 5 who have just began to play. It contains favorite childhood songs and adds more fun for the young students of piano. The DVD and CD are accompanied by a colorful story book to add to student participation. And parents can include the piano lessons in story time and bedtime music.

Dr. Johns – Piano Bundle Pack: Dr. John Teaches New Orleans Piano – Volume 1

This DVD pack is geared more towards the experienced piano player and offers the more advanced musician to explore the unique and soulful world of New Orleans blues and boogie. The sessions of this piano DVD feel personal and intimate as the student follows as Dr. John, one of the Big Easys greatest talents, guides them through developing their own personal style. This DVD will surely help the blossoming blues artist master his or her own licks, rhythms, turnarounds and runs and is packed full of awe-inspiring piano playing. This DVD set has become world renown and received this review from Time Magazine “Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of “C.C. Rider” and Pine Top Boogie” you will have got a graduate degree in soul.”

A Lesson with Steve Allen: An Introduction to Jazz Piano

Most people remember Steve Allen as a comedian, author and as the original host of The Tonight show, but his abilities as a top jazz pianist were probably his most inspiring. On this Piano DVD Steve Allen shows the beginner jazz pianist how to add personal flair and style to simpler jazz pieces.These intense step by step lessons show specific valuable skills including fake runs, octave vibrato and trills.The viewer is also shown how to build arrangements and play basic blues like stride, walking basses and the use of 10ths.

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