I have only recently heard of Music Lyceum, which is one of these platforms that teach you how to play the piano. It is a website that teaches both guitar as well as piano.
It claims it can teach you how to play the piano in 30 minutes, I must say that I scoff whenever I hear claims like this, because it makes the idea of playing the piano as something that is really easy to learn. There is also an implication that traditional methods of leaning to play the piano are deliberately laborious and difficult, like piano teachers have in the last couple of centuries since the piano was invented have deliberately tried to over complicate the process of learning, so that we could earn more money?!
So along comes this person called Sean, who I surmise has learned to play the piano in a traditional way, thinks that he can come up with a better system of writing music, so that people can learn to play the piano in a much faster time frame. Nothing wrong with that because I do understand why our current system of music notation can look daunting and complicated to people who can’t read music.
Whether it is Sean from Music Lyceum’s color coded, letters and numbers system, or traditional music notation, the both of them rely on a system of written symbology to tell a person what note to play and how long to play the note for. Also the system that Music Lyceum is selling doesn’t help with getting use to holding your hands in a certain position, or being able to use all ten fingers to play the notes with equal strength and dexterity (because we naturally don’t – just like how any of us type on a computer’s keyboard without learning to touch type).
The thing I dislike the most is that if you use Music Lyceum’s notation, you will always have to buy that websites music, so you are locked in as their exclusive customer and you are dependent on them to put what you want to play into their notation.
However, if you don’t care about this and maybe you only want to learn to play a few songs only, then Music Lyceum could be a good option for you. Their course, which includes 5 pieces of music, is priced at $37, which is quite reasonable.
I am personally not a fan, but I can see that if someone just wanted to try this course before they took piano lessons, just to make sure that they can do it, then it could be worth the money. Make no mistake – this is not better than a piano teacher who can give you a personally tailored course with lots of constructive feedback and information.