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 I am not a piano teacher, I teach people how to teach themselves piano. 

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime.” ― Chinese Proverb 

Jane started this volunteer project in April 2009. For the first two years, her website was on MS Office Live and named "Monkey See Monkey Do: Free Piano Lessons". The site was intended for teenagers who already played some piano but wanted help on their favorite songs. Requests kept coming, from all over the world, from young and old. As a result the site became suitable for all age groups. Jane took lessons from age 12 to 17, hardly practiced, and does not consider herself a pianist. 

Jane's tutorials are intended for those who play by ear or follow the sheet music, with emphasis on the latter. We recommend that all of you learn to read music and simply use these tutorials as reference, e.g., to correct notes, to check counting, or to compare fingering. There is a lot more to playing than just hitting the right notes.  So for classical pieces, if you do not have a teacher, learn by observing concert pianists.

Countless viewers who do not read music but play by ear have successfully used Jane's tutorials together with a method similar to machine learning (Imitation, Memorization, and Reinforcement). They play astonishingly well. A few examples are mentioned on Jane's Scholarship webpage.

Jane and her husband Michael Grossman both retired from teaching mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  Jane spends most of her spare time making piano tutorials because she knows that many love to play piano but have no opportunity for private lessons.  Michael, a co-creator of Non-Newtonian calculus, pens the abstracts for most webpages.  Alarmed by the plethora of error-ridden, and yet widely popular, YouTube math lessons, Jane began to add mathematics tutorials in August 2011.

All the tutorials are free, and they link to YouTube or Vimeo. Jane began uploading to Vimeo in September 2018 because her YouTube tutorials were bombarded with copyright revenue sharing citations, despite the law that states "Teaching is Fair Use." For years, YouTube support boiled down to "Hire your own lawyer."

Jane's tiny Google Adsense earnings, are added towards her piano scholarships. Click here to go to Jane's YouTube Channel. Click here to go to Jane's Vimeo Channel.

Practice hard but have fun!

The joy of music is a spark of life.

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Disclosure statement May 24, 2024

Jane is an Amazon and Sheetmusic Plus affiliate. Any amazon ads clicked on resulting in purchases give Jane a 4% commission.

Checked to give you an idea,  $0 is the amount she earned since September 2023.