Welcome To Creative Piano Academy
Feel that incredible feeling only music can give when you sit down at that piano, enter your own musical world and just play beautiful music. Want to know how? Read on…
John Flexman
Creative Piano Academy Student
“Hi Josef, Enjoying the "Sit and Play Piano Path". A great course and easy to follow. Must have taken huge amounts of your time.
Well done and your inimitable style of encouraging and cheerful lesson presentation is very much appreciated.”
Bernd Haller
Creative Piano Academy Student
“Creating this compilation on piano practice and making it part of a piano course is another example why I feel that I can not have a better teacher than you.
You are tackling the subject from many angles and always going the extra mile. This dedication combined with your inspirational videos are second to none.”
Denise Hobby
Creative Piano Academy Student
“Hi Josef, I just want to say thank you. You inspire me daily with your creative patterns! I am thoroughly enjoying everything about my membership!
It’s fun and I see myself moving forward after years of feeling stuck. Thanks again.”
Creative Piano Academy’s membership site is fully interactive and has lots of features to help you organise and track your progress and can be accessed anytime you like.
My name is Josef Sykora. I’ve been teaching piano for nearly 20 years. I’ve taught beginners through to advanced, kids through to 87 year youngs.
My mission is to keep your passion for piano alive. Being overwhelmed by thousands of unconnected lessons, wasting time learning skills that are irrelevant to you and despite months of learning... still not confident to play the music you love are all reasons your passion will disappear.
Its my job to lead you into discovering who the musician is inside you and equip you with everything you need to use the piano to play actual music that lights up the butterflies in your tummy and feel excitement and passion every time you see a piano.
Thats why I’ve developed my creative musical methods based on teaching you the piano skills you need whilst playing beautiful music you can be proud of.
Have fun and play music
Nailing core skills like hand independence, rhythm and timing, hitting the right notes or just sitting down, tinkering around on the keys and sounding incredible… learn piano through playing real music that sounds good.
Keep your Brain Active
Engaging in a creative activity is a sure-fire way to keep your grey matter active. My methods combine ‘proper’ piano learning techniques with creativity so even basic exercises feel like you are creating beautiful music.
Learn as an
Adult
How we practice as adults is VERY different than as kids. Discover neuroscience-based, adult piano practice techniques which will guarantee you learn piano effectively and fast as an adult learner so you can feel real progress every day.
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Visual Learning Paths
Learn piano from the ground up, step-by-step using my structured learning paths and visual piano journey map.
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Get Personal Feedback
Want help from a real teacher? I am on hand to answer any question, help with any problem and give feedback.
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Track Your Progress
Keep on top of your journey through tickable lesson objectives and private notes.
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Slow Motion and Looping
The play-along software means you can slow down, loop or even change the key of any exercise or piece.
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Sheet Music And Notation
A Visual Learner? Download and/or print the notation for all lessons and exercises
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Monthly ‘Inspiration’ Lessons
A series of monthly real-time follow along lessons focused on creativity, playing music and having fun!
Nancy Ellman
Creative Piano Academy Student
Thank you for putting together such a thoughtful program. I love how you focus solely on mechanics and weave theory in and out.
I also appreciate how the reading of music happens organically. I now start the practice sessions trying to play them from sight reading before I watch your demo. It makes for highly effective learning for me.
I have a close friend who is a classically trained pianist and she is really impressed with my progress since I started 8 weeks ago.
I let her know the way the program is tailored makes progress more achievable at a rapid pace.
So far, I have gotten through the first 7 days on piano, nailing your sustain pedal, and have made it half way through course 5 of sit and play.
This week, I slid over to blues and boogie woogie (so much fun!) And have also moved over to scales. I am finding that when I sit down each day, practicing different types of lessons is keeping me more engaged. So I do a bit of sit and play, blues, and scales.
John Labone
Creative Piano Academy Student
This is one of the best piano sites out there hands down. I love the play along features that are now available. Excellent, excellent, excellent!
I’m writing to let you know I signed for your academy on Monday and I have gone through ‘Your First 7 Days On The Piano’
I’m not a beginner but I wanted to see what the first 7 days had to offer. I was vastly surprised, I love the way you teach man. I actually like the Day 4 finger exercises. These are Awesome!!! Perfect for warming up. I’ve had some in the past but not much fun as yours and very boring.
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Youtube can feel like you are stuck in a pinball machine bouncing from one video to the next without understanding anything in any depth. The fastest way to playing the music you love is learning the core relevant skills, in detail, in a structured way.
Creative Piano Academy’s visual learning map will help you navigate your piano journey from the beginning through detailed learning paths. You will know exactly where you are on your journey, where you are going next and each step you need to take to get there.
Your First Seven Days on the Piano
New to piano? Start here and learn essential core piano skills and play some music!
Nail Your Sustain Pedal
Learn cutting edge piano practice techniques based on neuroscience to learn fast as an adult.
Sit and Play Piano Path
How to simply sit down and play beautiful music you will be proud of playing.
Introduction to Rhythm and the Pulse.
Learn the basics of rhythm step-by-step and develop a natural feel for rhythm in music
Melody Study
How to generate beautiful infinite melodies that impress and sound like REAL melodies.
How to Create Beautiful Music
Why do we learn scales? Let's look at how piano scales translate into melody.
Song Study - Someone Like You
A breakdown of Someone Like You By Adele included how to use the skills to create your own music.
Piano Scales - A Reference Guide
Time for some core technique. Here’s a collection of scales.
Nail Your Piano Practice
Learn cutting edge piano practice techniques based on neuroscience to learn fast as an adult.
Creative Piano Path
Everything you need to learn piano from the very beginning in a structured step by step curriculum.
Monthly Fun Stuff
Inspiring, creative lessons every month in real time exploring skills from unique fun perspectives.
Real-Time Exercises
Sit down with me in real time and work on core skills like hand coordination, rhythm and more.
And More…
HEAR FROM REAL STUDENTS
Barbara Oleynick
Creative Piano Academy Student
Josef, I cannot express my joy at finding you at this moment in life. You, young man have tapped into my creative being and set me free.
I have a zillion notes in me, patterns, melodies even symphonies, simmering eagerly awaiting my hands to reclaim the fluid movement skills I had as a child.
Alex
Creative Piano Academy Student
Having just worked through your Sit and Play Piano course I felt I had to write in order to thank and congratulate you on creating such an excellent online learning experience.
Having sampled a few other online courses, I never anticipated that the keyboard could be opened up to me in quite such an achievable and enjoyable way. Your patient 'layered' approach is exactly what I needed and I am thoroughly enjoying the ability to just sit and play (as it says on the tin!).
John Flexman
Creative Piano Academy Student
I find most courses treat individual lessons as different subjects to be covered. This means a different mindset is required for each new lesson. The Sit and Play Piano Path in contrast leads from one to the next in a continuous flow. It's much easier to absorb information this way.
Another enjoyable aspect is experimenting with your own chord sequences. Very important to write down the ones you like and get them nailed before moving on.
Piano Practice is now fun and the self-discipline that had to be applied to get back on the keys has been replaced by enthusiasm...yeah!
First 12 days free
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Every lesson (when needed) comes with your very own personal piano practice companion. What I call the play-along sessions.
You can…
Loop Sections
Loop Sections
Select and loop any bars you are struggling with to nail the tough stuff
Slow down or speed up
Slow down or speed up
Struggling with a certain passage? Slow it down in real time.
Change the key
Change the key
Want to play in any key you like? Simply change the key and away you go.
Print Notation
Print Notation
A visual learner? Notation is always available.
And lots more features…
A HUGE part of learning piano is taking time to explore the fun and creative side of music. It reminds us why we learn piano in the first place and keeps our passion alive. Thats why every month, I release a fun ‘real-time’ lesson where we explore core skills like hand independence and rhythm in musical and creative ways, or just create beautiful music using my piano methods.
And Also…
Get Feedback from me personally whenever you want
Track Your Progress Through Interactive Lesson goals and objectives
All lessons are timestamped for each section
Make you own private notes on any lesson page to keep track of your progress, sticking points and/or a personal log of your journey
Know your next step at any time with my Visual Learning Map
Interactive Play-Along sessions for every lesson which has exercises and music to learn.
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Here’s what a few had to say!
Carol M Aspinall
I'm in the senior citizens bracket as I'm retired, and what I have found in following your videos is that I can make music. I'm an ‘on and off’ beginner, didn't stick with anyone particular so didn't progress.
But with you Joe I'm making progress at a cost I can afford. God bless you. So glad I found your site, plus you are pleasant to listen to and your music doesn't blast yours ears. Some do you know. I may be making slow progress but I'll catch the train.
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