Starter Kit

Piano Materials

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
‍Alexander Graham Bell

- Books
- - Level 1
  - - Lesson Book 1A
    - Performance Book 1A
- Official Journal
- - Blank paper. Without lines or numbers. (Get this one)
  - - Paperage (Black notebook/ no lines)
- Metronome
- - We recommend the following app:
  - - Pro Metronome - Apple, Android.
- Learning Apps
- - Your personal mental gym at home.
    Click here for tutorials.
  - - Tenuto - App available for Apple. Website for Android.
    - Music Theory.net- Website (for Android Users)
- Instrument
- - Thinking of buying a piano?
  - Best recomendations:
  - - Williams Allegro IV In-Home Pack Digital Piano
    - Yamaha Arius YDP-145
  - Whatever you buy, make sure you love how it sounds.
    Because you'll have to listen to it... a lot.
    
    Use this industrial strength "quality standard":
    "It's either a hell yes, or a definite no!"
- Spotify Playlists
- - If you want to learn French, you must listen French, eat French
    and live French... ooh la la.
  - - Piano Concertos:
    - - Chopin Piano Concerto II – 2^nd Movement– Krystian Zimerman
      - Brahms Piano Concerto II– Alfred Brendel
      - Mendelssohn Piano Concerto I – Murray Perahia
    - Piano Pieces
    - - Chopin Waltzes and Preludes – Joao Pires
      - Debussy Suite Bergamasque Clair de lune – Nikolai Lugansky
    - Opera Arias
    - - Female Opera Arias
    - Violin Performances
    - - Mendelsohn Violin Concerto in E minor – Anne-Sophie Mutter
      - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto - Ivry Gitlis