Do Re Mi To You: The ultimate guide for adults learning the piano or any musical instrument. Easy steps for breaking down the barriers.

At last, a manual for beginners to advanced adult learners of piano or any music instrument, this comprehensive and compelling guide takes you through easy and clever steps to master your playing.It puts at your fingertips everything you need to know – valuable tips, helpful shortcuts, practical techniques, important fundamentals - and comes with a bonus: it's unique in offering encouragement and inspiration, meaning you'll learn more and love learning more."Here is everything I've learnt in successfully teaching many adults over decades " says author of the book, pianist, motivator and music educator Zuzana Lenartova. “My vision was to create something different – informative, inspiring and entertaining at the same time. A light-hearted, visually stimulating yet instructive “human handbook” one can refer again and again."Unlock your potential and accelerate your progress whether you are learning for personal enjoyment or sitting exams …Learn the fundamentals of music theory and how to apply them to your learning.Discover the power of practice and how to make most of your practicing sessions.Learn how to be less nervous during lessons, more confident before exams and more.- Chapter 1 The power of emotions. Five tips on how to navigate your emotions to make learning more rewarding, especially at a mature age.- Chapter 2 Five steps to becoming a better musician. Shape up your technique, create your ultimate playlist, train your ears, accelerate your sight reading and know the important basics such as music notation, rhythm, scales, chords.- Chapter 3 Learning from history. Expand your horizons — musical forms, classical periods of music and jazz styles.- Chapter 4 All about exams. Thinking about exams? Five strategies to get great results.- Chapter 5 How much do you know? Test your knowledge with fun quizzes and interesting facts about classical periods of music.About author…Zuzana Lenartova is one of very few teachers in Australia specializing in older students. She is a passionate music educator, motivator, and a great believer of importance of self-improvement and self-development.She was trained as a classical pianist and music educator at the State Conservatory of Music in Košice, Slovakia, obtaining Piano Performance and teaching degrees before completing a Masters Degree in Musicology and Pedagogy at University Comenius in Bratislava.Zuzana moved to Sydney in 2000 and established Eastern Suburbs Piano Tuition which grew to be one of the largest piano teaching organizations in Australia and in 2016 she founded Piano Promise in response to the need for more professional tuition for adult learners.In 2021, Zuzana took on another short but exciting role: for the Netflix hit, ‘Pieces of Her’, she both coached the piano-playing actor, one of the main characters, and played her piano parts as the piano “double”. On release in 2022 the series outranked all others on Netflix.She hopes you enjoy Do Re Mi To You as much as she enjoyed writting it 🖤 Read more