I have  recently checked out and reviewed many home study piano courses. Here is a list of the absolute best of the best.

Visit Rocket Piano	Rocket Piano - Best Course For Beginners Average User Rating: * (Click Here for our special IN DEPTH VIDEO REVIEW) This package contains 7 books with associated video and audio files. Apart from the basic teaching manuals there is Jazz for beginners and Gospel for beginners as well as a couple of general technique books. You get access to a bundle of software (PC and MAC) including a metronome and several music learning games. This is the leader as far as popularity goes and is an extremely good course containing over a years worth of lessons. Good for absolute beginners and intermediate level players. Click Here For Rocket Piano Site
	Piano For All - Best Course For Beginners and Intermediate Average User Rating: *(Click here for our special IN DEPTH VIDEO REVIEW) This extremely full package has 10 books with embedded video and audio. It teaches you how to play by ear and how to read music. Right from the start you will be playing authentic sounding pieces. Innovative teaching method keeps your interest and has you playing good sounding music in a very short time. The overall presentation of this product is not quite so slick as others but the content is without a doubt superior. Check Out Piano For All
Instrument Master	Instrument Master Average User Rating: This well presented course comes with tons of audio and video files. It also has a very good selection of software available. It is suitable for learning piano and keyboards in any style from classical through to Jazz and pop. You also get over 100 Jam tracks that you can play along to.  The makers of this product however also specialize in music production and so there are a few bonuses including the Music Producer Multimedia Program and an online beat maker. Get More Information on Instrument Master
Piano Coach Pro	Piano Coach Pro Average User Rating: Another fine product, this one comes with a vast library of video and audio lessons. It is split up into styles with separate lessons for blues, Jazz, classical, bluegrass, rock etc. This also comes with quite a few jam tracks to you to play along to. It is suitable for absolute beginners and has a quick start section which will have you playing music from the first day. Click Here For More About Piano Coach Pro
Play Piano Tonight	Play Piano Tonight Average User Rating: If you want to learn several modern styles then this is the course for you. It is centered around electronic keyboard playing though can be used with a normal piano if needed. You will learn rhythms and chords and are set practice sessions with rhythm with both left and right hands to help discipline your playing. The course comes with a short introductory video and a few jam tracks to play along with. The bulk of the course however is the book itself. Check Out The Sample Lesson On Their Web Site

For more information see the Teach Yourself Piano Page. All of the products listed here are geared to teaching you how to play the piano or the keyboards and will take you from beginners level up to intermediate or advanced level. Each product come with a money back guarantee should you not be completely satisfied.

Ruth Searl’s Rocket Piano Review

This is a short overview of Ruth Searl’s Rocket Piano course. The course is one of the best selling downloadable courses available at the moment and in my opinion is one of the most complete courses I have seen.

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I did a sort video review of this product showing you what to expect when once you have downloaded the files. Here is the Video:

Rocket Piano – What’s In The Box?

As you can see from the video the course is extremely complete. It is great for absolute beginners but it can also be used for slightly more advanced intermediate level players too. If you have been fumbling about on the keys for some time, maybe looking for videos on how to play certain songs on YouTube or trying to play along with your favorite songs then this is the product for you.

In the main Rocket Piano Review I wrote I gave this product a five star rating mainly because of it’s completeness. It really does cater for all your piano learning needs. It’s well laid out and extremely easy to follow. the material is of good quality and well thought out so that the student will advance with ease from one level to the next.

There is a whole bundle of software included in the package. Some of this is more useful than others. the most useful in my opinion is the metronome. This can be used to play along with the exercises. Playing in time can be quite difficult and using the metronome forces you to do this. The other interesting piece of software for me is the ear training interval recognition program called Perfect your pitch pro.

The major down side to this product is that the audio and video examples are not accessible from the workbooks. Ideally you should be working through the material when you come across an audio example then you should be able to click on the example to hear it. This is not the case here and in order to here the audio and watch the video files you have to fire up your computer’s browser or finder and locate the examples from off your hard drive.  I should say however, once I had done this three or four times it became easy and I didn’t think of it as much of a stumbling block.

The course is aimed at adults but could also be used to teach older children too. I do not think it would be suitable for children under the age of 10 however. For more information see the Teach Yourself Piano Page.

When I bought the course I spent quite a time working through all of the books and found that I couldn’t stop. The material is compelling and you don’t notice how quickly you are advancing as what you get taught in one lesson is seamlessly integrated into the following lessons.

On the whole the entire course is really worth having and once you get used to Ruth’s rather bizarre New Zealand accent then you will have a lot of fun learning the piano or the keyboards with this excellent course.

The course is sold through the payment gateway clickbank. This is a very reputable merchant that has been in business on the Internet for many years so a safe transaction is assured. Payments can be made via paypal or credit card and just for that extra piece of mind there is a full 60 day money back guarantee in case you are not completely satisfied.

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