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Get instant access to over 1,900 in-depth HD Piano Lessons for all playing levels, with new lessons added each month. Browse by music style and learning focus, so you can easily find what you’re looking for.

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We provide over 650 Smart Sheet Music Pieces. This technology combines sheet music, video, and a light up keyboard to make reading music easier than ever.

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Download unlimited Lesson Sheet Music and get discounts on Premium Arrangements. You can also download unlimited backing tracks, practice logs, and course guides.

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Join the weekly #PWJChallenge, the most fun way to practice piano and share your progress with other members from around the world! All participants get recognized at the end of the month.

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Track your progress with our fully integrated practice log. View community logs for inspiration.

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Follow our unique learning system to level up as a pianist. We cover songs, exercises, and soloing with a variety of music styles.

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Remove the guesswork from improving at the piano

With our structured Learning Tracks, we guide you step-by-step to master the styles of music you want to learn.

Choose from these Learning Tracks:
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  • Technique

Our dashboard with progress tracking keeps you focused and motivated while you learn at your own pace.

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Learning made easy with modern Smart Sheet Music

Smart Sheet Music powered by Soundslice combines video, sheet music, and a light-up keyboard to help students learn interactively.

  • Hear the audio playback
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View all of Jonny’s Lesson Sheets, Public Domain, and Original arrangements through our Smart Sheet Music software.

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Earn XP points and fun Badges to reach your goals!

  • Complete 100 Courses to get the Legend Badge
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We believe learning piano should be fun, and our members love earning these achievement badges!

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If you want encouragement, accountability, and motivation from the best online piano community, look no further!

  • Join a passionate community of over 10,000 members
  • Hang out with Jonny & other members in our Monthly Q&A
  • Complete our Weekly #PWJChallenges and get recognized
  • Participate in Live Workshops, Student Collaborations, and Student Recitals

Get direct feedback to your top questions from Jonny, our Community Support Team and your fellow students in the Facebook Group and Community Forum.

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Get virtual high-fives from our super supportive PWJ Member Group on Facebook and in our Private Community Forum. Share tips, ask questions, and get inspired every day.

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If you want personal feedback on your playing, Jonny will review your video and give you a response in our monthly Student Review. In addition to the Q&A, Facebook group, and Forum, this is another way to get your questions answered.

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We provide quick and friendly customer support to make sure you only need to focus on one thing: playing piano and improving every day.

Monthly Workshops

The monthly workshop lets you interact live with Jonny as you do a deep-dive lesson on a topic that you get to vote on. This is the masterclass of PWJ.

Weekly Q&A’s

Join the live-streamed Office Hours with Jonny and other guest teachers each week to get answers to your burning questions.

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This is our weekly zoom call led by a community leader to discuss breakthroughs and challenges. Get the encouragement you need.

Live Shows & Events

Each week we release new shows for student challenges, Q&A sessions, workshops and more!

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Office Hours (October 8)

Office Hours are an opportunity to get interactive feedback from a professional piano coach!

Member Circle (October 7)

“Member Circle” is a zoom meeting led by a Community Leader where students will have the opportunity to share their breakthrough moments with each other and discuss a particular theme.

Office Hours (October 1)

Office Hours are an opportunity to get interactive feedback from a professional piano coach!

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Ann-Marie T.
Ann-Marie T.
Over the Rainbow Challenge. Top class teaching! John guides you step by step through different musical concepts like melody, harmonies, form and creating a solo. In the end you have a very beautiful and soulful arrangement you can enjoy whenever you want. Thank You John Proulx!
Marc A.
Marc A.
As always, Jonny is masterful and has such an inspiring and warm personality. I was surprised by how much there was in this single hour (the Cycle of 5ths in 3 Jazz Styles), and ALL of it was extremely helpful and valuable to learn!
Gloria L.
Gloria L.
I am actually an intermediate player and signed up for Jonny’s classes. After taking several intermediate classes, I decided I wanted to see what I was missing in the beginner classes. So, I’ve taken them from the beginning and I’ve learned things I didn’t know or practice before so it’s been very worthwhile. The classes are great. I recommend them highly.
Shelley H.
Shelley H.
The course took me a loooong time, but I now have a better sense of independence of the two hands. The written notes really helped. I returned to Jonny's playing so I could listen again and again. My ear helps me alot more than the clapping, but I understand how that could be a great help for some. Jonny's courses allow me to progress at my own pace.
Christine Nelson, coach en relations A.
Christine Nelson, coach en relations A.
Learning Summertime...
As a classical musician, I wasn't very at ease with those chords plus the solo. I took the time to really enjoy all the teaching in this lovely piece. Finally, I am much at ease now because I understand the structure of the chords. Also, in the solo teaching part, I found it very useful to know where the licks were coming from, where they were used the most. Acquiring these notions make me confident to recognize them in other standards or songs that I love. I feel I made a great move in my journey towards being a jazz musician.
Alexander K.
Alexander K.
Great and awesome resourse for learning jazz piano and some other piano styles full of high-quality video lessons from professionsl musicians.
https://pianowithjonny.com/courses/passing-chords-reharmonization-1/
I really like this series of lessons that consists of 2 video-courses.
These two courses helped me to become more confident in finding alternative ways of harmonizing any given melody, and then to make my type of composition sounds more richful and great with using techniques that these two courses full of.
I really will be glad if in future Johny will add some other parts to this two courses with more information about another advanced harmonization of the melody and reharmonization techniques and about chord substitutions for musicians to have all of them that are famous in modern jazz (and not only jazz) piano harmony theory.
Frank F.
Frank F.
https://pianowithjonny.com/courses/the-10-lesson-blues-challenge-1/ Took me 3 month as a beginner restarting again after 40 Years :-) I think I have a lot to do the next years with the stuff and I am looking forward to the Level 2 and the Gospel scale. Jonny is a very inspiring teacher pushing you being creative and go your own way and express your feelings. Thats what music is about transforming emotions. Now I can play for an hour without a sheet . Ok not everything is for other ears so beautiful, but the blues is to express myself. Thanks for the course.
I think a good local teacher is important to get live feedback and discuss upcoming questions but PWJ gives me possibilities I dont have with my local teacher, all these styles like blues jazz I am interested in, a very good learning track for beginners, other views making music, a community where you can share your experiences and this for a price wich is a joke. Thanks a lot 😀💪
Bonnie C.
Bonnie C.
Blue Skies has been the most informative and helpful challenge so far ever since I began my jazz studies. It was difficult for an intermediate level, but a lot of fun and I enjoyed working on the solo. John Proulx is an excellent teacher. He explains each technique and guides you through the chord changes, explaining the notes and scale construction. Loved the challenge. Really good. Thank you John! :)🙂
Ava N.
Ava N.
This is my first Challenge ever and I love it! I'm not quite ready to share my final rendition of Blue Skies, but will do so soon. John does a remarkable job of breaking down the basic elements of this beautiful tune, and then, by giving the solo sample, enables us to take it to the next level!
Richard G.
Richard G.
These key courses are really helping me to get a sense of the shape of chords and their inversions. This one highlighted practical areas I need to work on too. I've struggled in the past to understand voice leading; Daine's comments on it have made it start to become clearer for me.
Clàudia Dalleres M.
Clàudia Dalleres M.
Jazz and improvisation used to look like black magic to me. With this platform you learn new harmony concepts almost effortlessly, in a very fun and progressive way. I absolutely recommend it!
Richard H.
Richard H.
I cannot recommend PWJ enough. I have tried a bunch of online piano courses and this is the best -- especially for Jazz. And it is so reasonably priced that in my opinion it is a "no brainer".

Everyone should start with this course (link below), for two reasons:

1. Jonny explains how you should pick a Foundations track and a Styles track and stick to those two. There is so much here at PWJ that it's hard to know what to work on. This is good direction and it's working well for me.

2. It stresses the importance of repetition. In my opinion, the word "practice" is too vague a term. Repetition is much more specific and is really the most important concept in practice. Also, practicing in small chunks and slowly.

Learning piano takes a long time, but the structured and fun way that Jonny and the other teachers teach it makes the time very enjoyable and it passes quickly. In a year you can make a LOT pro progress.

BTW: In my opinion, learning jazz is a good way to go for all piano players (except possibly strictly classical) because it teaches you a lot of cool and useful theory such as beautiful chord voicings, progressions, improvisation, etc. So you may think you don't need to learn jazz, but in my opinion, it's good to do so. Also, jazz is very broad with many styles. Just as there are many forms of rock, there are many forms of jazz. I personally love modal and neo soul jazz; others may love bebob, ragtime or bossa nova. There is probably a style you will love to play.
Tom M.
Tom M.
The learning tracks are organized in such a way that you can either follow a linear prescribed path if you don’t know where to start, or detour to a particular area such as music style, genre or learn a particular song, if you know where you want to focus. I go back and forth to keep things interesting as my needs evolve and my whims arise.

Jonny’s style is easy to digest and to assimilate into your repertoire. For example I recently went through a lesson on accompaniment methods where he gives each method a particular name.

Naming the accompaniment methods is brilliant. I was doing some of these already but naming them helps me remember them better and also remember to not just use one pattern when playing a song. I used these in my band's concert the other night and it made the song I was playing much more fun!
Brett B.
Brett B.
Course: Modulation Essentials - How to Modulate a Song 1

This course is great for demystifying the concept of changing keys during a song. The fact that you can use the same concept no matter what key you're going from and to is awesome. It really comes down to the idea of leading into the new key by playing some other chords in that key before the start of the new phrase, similar to a cymbal swell giving a cue to an upcoming crash, or how the music or visuals of the next scene fade in before the scene starts. It softens what would otherwise be a jarring, sudden change.

Similar to all the other courses on PianoWithJonny, it takes a very step-by-step approach, ensuring there are no mysterious leaps in knowledge/skill where you’re left wondering if you skipped a page or a section of the course (an issue I’ve found with so many other courses/books in the past, not just in music), and Jonny always gives pointers to other courses in case you’re not up to speed with an important prerequisite skill or theoretical knowledge. I struggled for years (decades) trying to get a grasp on jazz, starting with a self-absorbed teacher when I was about 13, who just liked to show off with a flowery dance across the keyboard, which he expected me to somehow magically assimilate, then through multiple jazz books, including Mark Levine’s Jazz Piano Book, the latter bringing me a whole lot closer. But it wasn’t until I started watching Jonny’s videos on YouTube that things really started to click, and since subscribing to PianoWithJonny
I’ve been progressing by leaps and bounds. I really look forward to the lessons, sometimes completing nearly a whole course in one sitting! I’ve since got a subscription for my father as well and can’t recommend it enough
Boris B.
Boris B.
For someone to whom the latin rhythm does not come naturally, I made quite a progress by the end of the course and could play together with the backing track. It was easy to follow the course, step by step you get into the groove. It is amazing how seemingly effortlessly the instructors convey the material. Thanks Jonny and Yannick.
Ted B.
Ted B.
Blues Challenge 2
I have learned more with this course in 4 and half months than I have learned over several years. The techniques have stuck and will transfer to Jazz so learning blues first is a ABSOLUTE MUST, it focuses on technique and you won't regret it. But don't be fooled - it is rigorous, not for the faint hearted and requires determination and resilience. If you don't have that - dont go there. The eureka light goes on, when you've cracked an element that you thought you would never do, it becomes really enjoyable and inspiring to know that's when you know you can play the piano. Bear in mind there are many more keys to cover, it's only the beginning... I think I can see the base camp of Mount Everest, Thanks again Jonny.
Dick S.
Dick S.
As with the other courses on rootless voicings for major and minor chords, this lesson on dominant 7th chords takes you in a piecemeal approach, from A voicings to B voicings, and then to alternating A and B voicings. The short songs at the end of each lesson add a fun touch to what might otherwise be a not too fun travel around the circle of fifths with each voicing. John keeps you engaged, but don't hesitate to pause the lesson and spend several minutes really learning the numerous chord patterns. Thank you, John.
Dan G.
Dan G.
I really am a beginner to piano although I spent a few months trying to learn on my own. The foundation learning track quickly demonstrated and filled some fundamental gaps and I do feel ready to move forward with more confidence. Glad I came back to the start. It was a valuable time taken. I am very happy with my first experience of the PWJ beginner learning tracks. 🎹😎
Becky P.
Becky P.
This is a great course for a Jazz beginner with classical piano training - made it easy to pick up the jazz fundamental principles. I've been wondering all these times what the tricks were and now boom I can start to bang out some cocktail jazz chords. So much more to explore but can't thank you enough Jonny!
Eleanor R.
Eleanor R.
This course has given me so many tips on how to improve soloing. I tried to learn jazz piano a few years ago. (Having played classical for many years). I bought countless books, watched tons of videos etc etc, but I hadn’t found anything that worked for me until PWJ. Prior to PWJ, I didn’t really understand chord progressions, or guide tones, and relied on being a good sight reader, but as Jonny points out, the 2,5,1, is so important, almost a building block to everything else. I can now play a 2,5,1 in every single key, without thinking😊 (well, a little bit of thinking😆) The lessons are so clearly laid out. The exercises are really good fun to play and the great soloing examples have made a big difference, to my playing and understanding of ‘where to go’ in a solo I love the whole teaching method at PWJ.
Ann B.
Ann B.
Surprised myself by my progress in a short time. Really appreciate Jonny’s encouragement and inspiring teaching style. Thank you
David C.
David C.
The course starts you right at the very beginning, if that’s where you’re at.
For me, I have taken some piano training and am familiar with the treble and bass staffs.
I started at the beginning anyway.
The warm-up exercises and the practice pieces that get you playing hands together were what really caught my interest.
The training by video methodology is about as good as one could expect.
I am very encouraged to keep moving on in my journey.
Nina Baxley R.
Nina Baxley R.
I have played piano all my life and I thought I *knew* seventh chords, but I decided to take the the 7th Chord Foundations as a review, starting with major 7th chords. Well ... I learned so much from this first course! While I could have given you a textbook definition of "major 7th chord" before, the exercises really helped me to gain a much deeper understanding of how major sevenths work, look, and feel. I am so looking forward to delving into the dominant 7ths next!
Nick M.
Nick M.
PWJ is the BEST online learning you will get. Knowledgeable and friendly teachers. Detailed and very thorough learning video courses broken down into bite sized chunks.

Downloadable sheet music and backing tracks. Structured 'Learning Tracks' take you from beginner to advanced through a variety of different courses and styles.

Different genres covered and a fantastic Facebook community of the most supportive musicians in the world.

Quite simply, PWJ is brilliant and I cannot imagine life without PWJ.
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Using the popular jazz standard “Heart and Soul" by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, we will explore various accompanying techniques so you’ll sound like a pro!

Smooth Jazz Challenge 2

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The Top 10 Reasons Why People Join PWJ

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You studied with traditional lessons and got bored
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You want to learn jazz and popular styles of music
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You wish you could play a lead sheet in any style
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You were never taught how to improvise
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You never got clear guidance on how to practice
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You feel overwhelmed by too much information and need structure
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You feel stuck on a plateau playing the same old songs and licks
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You wish you had a supportive community to learn with
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You are short on time and aren’t getting results you want
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You don’t have hundreds of dollars for private lessons each month

Common FAQs

Will this program help me overcome my nerves of performing?

Yes. We teach you how to set goals, how to structure your practice, and how to get results using effective practice methods. On top of that, our supportive community allows you to share videos and build confidence over time.

Will this program help me memorize songs?

Yes. With our method you will learn how to “see” music as chords and patterns. This approach makes it much easier to learn songs instead of the old rote repetition approach to learning.

Do you need to be able to read sheet music before taking your courses?

No. Sheet music is provided as an additional learning resource for students who want it. Our courses will help you become familiar with music notation, but all the notes are clearly demonstrated with the light-up keyboard.

Am I too late to start?

Definitely not! Many of our students are late beginners who simply want to pick up a new hobby to stay mentally sharp. We help you ignite your passion for music at any age.

Can I watch the lessons from any device?

Yes. You can watch our lessons from any browser or device such as your phone, tablet, or computer with an internet connection.

Are there any limits on access and streaming?

No! Your membership includes unlimited access and streaming to all of our video content. We want you to get the full experience with no limitations!

Does the free trial come with downloads?

The free trial includes access to all the videos, shows, and community pages. It does not include access to downloadable sheet music or backing tracks. You can skip the trial to access the downloads at any time.

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Piano With Jonny offers three core content types:

Courses

Courses are comprised of lessons and are based on selected styles of music and learning focus topics. PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format.

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Lessons are combined into courses. Most lessons build upon concepts of the previous lesson, with the exception of Quick Tips which stand alone.

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