Helpful lessons with lots of practice material I was looking for a virtual alternative to in-person lessons after not being satisfied with my last piano teacher's teaching style. It's only been a few weeks since I got the Intro to Piano course and Intro to Improv, but so far this is a great alternative and very helpful for me as a beginner/intermediate player. There are plenty of hand/chord exercises, probably enough for me to work on for the next few months at least. I like that the exercises actually sound nice to the ear and are more fun to play than the usual boring kid stuff you always see in instructional books. Hopefully there will be new courses this year so I can keep progressing after I've worked my way through these ones.

Fantastic instuctor Charles is a fantastic instructor and has an amazing grasp of music. The course really helps you to see music in a new way, and I've taken the ideas with me over to guitar too. Only reason for 4 / 5 is that I am not sure if the academy offers live group lessons anymore, which was definitely the best feature.

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Great course! It’s been great so far. Charles explain everything really easily so that everyone can understand!

Learning on my personal schedule What I like about Cornell Music Acadamy is, that you can (re)learn how to play the piano following your own schedule. I'm not a complete beginner (I've learned how to play the piano when I was younger, but didn't play in a while), so I thought about giving it a try. I was not disappointed. I skipped the very first lessons to get the instructions, that I need it in my personal progress. If a lesson is to difficult for me, i can watch it over and over again till I know how it's done and how things work out for me. Also great that one can use the course for a lifetime. Lessons are self-explanatory and with the help and the instructions of the teacher understandable and comprehensible for everyone. First I decided to only give 4 stars because I really would like to have some sort of instruction in how learning and practicing classical music could be done. But hey - Charles Cornell is a jazz pianist, so I really can't expect that. So 5 Stars is appropriate in any case. Check out his YouTube-Channel, sometimes there are promo-codes to get the lessons in a bundle! Best wishes and thank you for your engagement, Andreas (from Austria)