Sit Down at Any Piano
and Actually Read
the Music in Front of You
Jon Schmidt's Note Reading Boot Camp takes you from spelling out E-G-B-D-F for every single note to genuinely reading at a 2-year level in about 60 days. Whether you're starting from zero, coming back after years away, or you play by ear and want the page to finally make sense.
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You've Watched Him
Play the Great Wall.
Now He'll Teach You.
Jon Schmidt is one of The Piano Guys, the group whose cinematic piano videos have been watched by more people than live in most countries on earth. This isn't a course from an anonymous instructor you've never heard of. It's the method Jon built and has refined since he was sixteen, taught by Jon himself.
"To be taught a verified, successful method from Jon Schmidt himself is incredible. You can't find that anywhere else."— from a recent student survey
Why This Works When
Everything Else Didn't
Ninety seconds with Jon. The shift that makes sheet music stop looking like a foreign language.
You Always See Exactly What to Do
Every lesson shows you three things at once: Jon on camera explaining it, the workbook page he's writing on, and the keyboard from above so you can copy his hands note for note. Nothing is left to guesswork.
It Was Never a Talent Problem
Maybe you play beautifully by ear but have to stop and spell out E-G-B-D-F for every note on the page. Maybe you took lessons as a kid and quit. Maybe you're starting from zero. Whatever brought you here, if sheet music has never clicked, it almost certainly wasn't your fault. Nearly everyone who gives up quits for one of these three reasons, and not one of them is about you.
You were taught to memorize
Every Good Boy Does Fine. FACE. Note by note, card by card. It's slow, it doesn't transfer to the page, and the moment you stop drilling it evaporates.
You practiced music you hated
Nobody sticks with an instrument playing exercises written in 1890. Without songs you actually want to hear, practice becomes a chore you skip.
You got stuck and no one was there
You hit one confusing measure, there was nobody to ask, and the book stayed closed. That's not a lack of discipline. That's a lack of coaching.
Jon Schmidt of The Piano Guys has been refining a different approach since he was sixteen years old. Instead of memorizing every note, you learn to read by patterns and anchors. Instead of exercises, you play songs you already know. And instead of learning alone, Jon coaches you through all lessons.
Four Things That Make
This Completely Different
The anchor system
Stop naming every note. You learn a handful of anchor points and read everything else by its relationship to them. Notes stop being trivia and start being geography.
songs you already love
Every concept is practiced on a melody you can hum before you play it. When you already know how it should sound, your ear corrects your hands for you.
Slow and sure, zero mistakes
You play slowly enough to be perfect, then speed up. It sounds obvious. It's the single biggest reason students stop plateauing and start compounding.
Jon as your coach
short video lessons that feel like private instruction. Pause him, rewind him, make him repeat the hard measure eleven times. He won't mind.
Yes. Especially You.
It's the number one thing students tell us they worried about before enrolling. Here's the honest answer for each of them.
"I'm too old to learn this now." Age is not the barrier you think it is. Our students range from teens to one who's 88 and learning so she can teach her great-grandchildren. The method is slow, kind, and repeatable as many times as you need.
"I play by ear, and the page is a mystery." This course was practically built for you. You already hear music. We just connect what you hear to what's written, so the dots stop being a code you have to decrypt.
"I've quit before." Almost everyone here has. You quit because of how you were taught, not because you can't do it. A different method gets a different result.
"I don't have time." Fifteen minutes a day. The lessons are short on purpose, and you have them for life, so a busy week just means you pick up where you left off.
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The Complete Boot Camp
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Compare It to the Actual
Alternative
Not to another online course. To what learning this properly costs any other way.
"I made the choice to purchase this instead of going to college to learn these skills. I can go at my own pace without feeling like I wasted thousands of dollars."— from a recent student survey
You are not deciding whether to spend . You are deciding whether the next two months look like the last two, or whether you finally sit down and play.
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What You'll Be Able
to Do, Week by Week
People Who Had Given Up
on Reading Music
I'm 53 and I cannot wait to practice the piano every single day with Jon! His method is exactly what my brain needed to understand the strange code that is music. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Great for teens or adults who had a few years of piano as a child. The lessons are short and fun. I love Jon Schmidt and this did not disappoint. The speed at which you can learn is staggering.
All frustrated piano teachers need to know about this. It has helped my teaching immensely. My students' sense and understanding of the keyboard is completely different.
This has helped my teenagers start to play the piano again. It is easy for any level to pick up and play a song familiar to them, and that success translated into them wanting to play more.
I've used this for a couple of months now and I'm impressed by the greater confidence of my students' note reading. Many of the little songs are very short, and the slow, no-mistakes method really works.
This course takes a very unique approach. It doesn't follow traditional methods at all, but maybe that's exactly what students need: a fresh approach to a notoriously difficult instrument.
Try the First Lessons.
Then Decide.
The most common thing people tell us before they buy is "I'm not sure it'll work for me." So we made that fear your call, not your risk. Enroll, watch the opening lessons, and play along. Give it an honest try inside 30 days, and if it isn't clicking the way we promised, email us and we refund you in full. No forms, no hoops.
All we ask is that you actually watch the lessons before you decide. That's not a hoop, it's the whole point: the method only fails if you never open it.
Who This Is Actually For
We would rather you skip this than buy the wrong thing.
✅ This is for you if
- You're an adult who wishes you could just sit down and play
- You took lessons as a kid and never really learned to read
- You can play a bit by ear or by tutorial, but the page is a mystery
- You have 15 minutes a day and a keyboard of any size
- You're a teacher looking for a method that actually sticks
- You've quit before and you're willing to try one more time
🚫 This is not for you if
- You already read sheet music fluently at an intermediate level
- You want to learn one specific song and nothing else
- You're looking for a course on improvising or chord playing (that's the Chord System)
- You want someone to do the practicing for you
- You're buying for a child under about ten without a parent alongside
I Can't Wait to Have
You Playing
I started building this when I was sixteen, because the way I was being taught to read music wasn't working and I was stubborn enough to think there had to be a better way.
Decades later, I still think the reason so many people quit the piano isn't talent. It's that they were handed a method built for memorizing, and then left alone with it.
This course is the version I wish somebody had handed me. Short lessons, songs you actually want to play, and me sitting right there whenever you get stuck. I would genuinely love to be the one who finally gets you reading.
Everything Else
You're Wondering
No. Any keyboard works, including a 61-key one. If you can find the keys, you can do the course. Weighted keys are lovely but they are not a requirement to learn to read.
Yes. Lesson one assumes you know nothing at all, and every lesson after it adds exactly one idea. It's equally good for people returning to piano who could always fake their way through but never truly read.
About 15 minutes a day. The lessons are deliberately short, and the practice tracker tells you what to do in each session so you never waste the time deciding.
Because you almost certainly quit for one of the three reasons at the top of this page, and this method is built specifically against all three: patterns instead of flashcards, songs you know instead of exercises, and Jon coaching you instead of a silent book.
Forever. One payment, lifetime access, and every future update is included. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.
It's designed for teens and adults. Younger children do very well with it when a parent works through it alongside them, and a lot of families go through it together.
A method book makes you memorize note by note and then leaves you to it. This teaches you to read by anchors and patterns, practises every concept on a song you already know, and has Jon on video walking you through the parts that trip people up.
Immediately. You'll get your login the moment you check out and you can start lesson one within about a minute.
Email us inside 30 days and we refund you in full. No hoops, and we part on good terms.
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You're Not Just Enrolling
in a Course.
You're learning from The Piano Guys, the group whose music has moved billions of people, taught by the man who wrote the method himself.
Two Months From Now,
You Could Be Reading
lessons, songs you already love, lifetime access, and Jon Schmidt of The Piano Guys as your coach. One payment of , and 30 days to decide it was worth it.
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