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Free Piano Lessons through Hoffman Academy + Giveaway

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The winner to this giveaway is comment #10 Becky!  Please email me asap at thethingsilovemost {at} gmail {dot} com!

A few years ago my daughter started piano & violin lessons with a great teacher that taught her both during the same lesson.  She move, which we were super sad about, and then we ended up moving also.  We moved to a town where there was one violin teacher.  She was young and leaving for a mission, but we had her teach my daughter for about 6 months until she left.   We started doing violin with an orchestra in town, but couldn’t find anyone near us that we could afford for piano.  I told her to just keep working on the violin, and we would figure something out.  I also wanted my 8 year old son to start piano, but we live way out of town and money is tight, so I knew it wasn’t really an option.  I was reading through a homeschool forum and someone mentioned Hoffman Academy Online Piano lessons, an amazing FREE program! There is nothing better than a great service for FREE!  Sometimes free really isn’t that great, but this is AWESOME!

All you need is a piano (or keyboard) and Mr Hoffman teaching you on some sort of electronic device.  You don’t need an iPad to take the lessons, you can do it with a laptop, computer, cell phone, or any tablet you can have near by your piano.  Preferably on the piano.  You do have to register, and with that you get weekly emails, can email the teacher for free, and they also have a great Facebook page where you can ask questions.  I am sure you are wondering what the catch is, there really is no catch. The lessons are totally free!!!  To get even more out of your learning, the Complete Materials for each Unit of 20 Lessons (which includes activity pages, sheet music, practice instructions, and MP3 files) costs $19. That’s less than $1 per lesson! Great deal, and totally worth it.  My kids like the work sheets and they are very helpful.  My son was soooo excited the other day when he came out and showed me a short little song he had composed in his worksheets.  I use sheet protectors and dry erase markers so the we can reuse them for all the kids.  When he is done he just wipes it clean!

Currently right now they have 4 units of 20 lessons each. I hear that they are coming out with unit 5 later in the fall.  I started it with my son on the first day of school and by the end of the lesson he was so excited he had learned how to play Hot Cross Buns! He has been doing it for 2 months now and is on lesson 14, but he has had to slow down a little since it is starting to challenge him a little more. Before he was doing about 3 lesson a week, but now he is between one and two, along with practicing the lessons in between.  My daughter has breezed though those first lesson and is starting the second unit.   And guess what, this might sound lazy, but I haven’t had to help them at all.  Mr. Hoffman does it all.  I just walk in at the end of the lesson and they perform for me!  It’s awesome!

{Aren’t’ these kids so so cute? When Mr Hoffman is at the piano the little kids LOVE to sit by their big brother and watch!}
Hoffman Academy piano lessons are are really for anyone.
  • A parent and child wanting to take piano lessons together
  • A piano student who already has a teacher and who wants to supplement his or her learning
  • Piano teachers who want to learn new tools and techniques for teaching piano to beginners
Their lesson are a complete musical training program, just like you would get from any professional teacher.  Their 1 goal is, of course, to teach you to play the piano, but you will also be learning so much more, including:
  • Correct playing technique, posture and hand position
  • How to read and write notes on the grand staff (treble clef and bass clef)
  • How to read, write, and perform rhythms
  • How to listen to music and to dictate melodies
  • How to improvise and compose your own songs
  • The basics of music theory, including chords, key signatures, and more!
You can read more of an overview about their philosophy and method here, here & here.
 
Quick story, I had already planned to share this post, we had already started the lessons, and I got an email from the Hoffmans on my other email account, them not knowing me or that we had started their lessons, asking me if I would review the lessons on my blog!  I emailed her back and said I was already using them and loved them, and had already planned to do that!  They were thrilled!  So there you go!  This is not a paid post, but she did give me the second unit of complete materials free because the Hoffmans are cool like that!  

They also offered to give away a free Download to a set of Complete Materials to one of my blog readers.  
 
So here is how you enter.  
Giveaway ends October 18th at Midnight!

Comments

  1. I love Hoffman Academy – we used them for about a year, and we haven’t had a piano so we’ve taken a break. We plan to start again after the new year when we will shop for a keyboard or piano!! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂 I like the academy on FB.

    I shared this giveaway on Twitter (I retweeted your tweet) @wallest02

  3. I liked them on Facebook and started following them on Pinterest. I also shared your Facebook post. My 6 year old keeps asking about lessons, so this would be GREAT!!

  5. Thanks for posting about this. I’ve been wanting to have my 9 year old take lessons but wasn’t sure if she would practice. This would be a great way to start out. I liked their page, shared your link, and re-pinned your pin on Pinterest.

  8. Thanks for posting this…liked and shared My 6 year old is doing well with the lessons although for some reason he doesn’t like them to be called “lessons” :p

  9. Liked Hoffman Academy. We have started to use his lessons and my daughters love them 🙂 Would love to win the lessons to print off. Also shared on facebook and liked your page 🙂

  10. Have Like the Hoffman Academy on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Also liked your Facebook page and look forward to looking around and learning more. I shared in Pinterest.

    Thanks for the chance. With four girls I could really use this to teach them piano!