What Do You Want to Learn?
With so many things you could practice at the piano, sometimes the hardest part is simply knowing where to begin. Choose a goal below and use the curriculum to give your practice some direction.
These legacy learning paths organize Piano Chops lessons around specific styles and skills. Use them as a guide, follow them in order, or combine them with the Member Library to build a practice plan that fits you.
Choose Your Path
Start with the result you're looking for. You don't need to work through everything — just choose the direction that makes sense for you right now.
Learn a Style
Build the vocabulary and skills that make a particular style actually sound like the style.
Build a Skill
Choose a specific ability you want to strengthen and follow the lessons that move you in that direction.
Add Some Chops
Don't need a complete curriculum? Jump straight into practical ideas you can start using at the piano.
Make a Practice Plan
Knowing what to practice is one thing. Actually organizing it into something you can follow is another.
Download the Piano Chops planning sheet and use the curriculum paths and resource links on this page to create your own plan.
Pick a few skills that move you toward the kind of player you want to become. Focused practice beats a giant list of random lessons.
Build Your Own Plan
Want to mix and match? Use these Member Library areas as building blocks for a practice plan of your own.
Fundamental Chops
Strengthen the basic building blocks underneath everything else.
Charting & Ear Chops
Learn to recognize, organize, and communicate what you're playing.
Style Chops
Explore genre-specific ideas and vocabulary.
Improvisation Chops
Develop patterns, freedom, and confidence creating music on your own.
You Don't Need the Perfect Plan
Pick a direction, practice consistently, and adjust as you grow. The goal of a curriculum isn't to give you more things to finish — it's to help you spend your practice time on the things that will actually move your playing forward.