If you know nothing, or almost nothing, about how music works, could you actually write a melody on piano in 10minutes or less? 

Yerp! and in this video, I'll show you how. Since I learned piano through a mix of teacher-guided lessons and teaching myself, I was shocked when I subbed for a piano teacher and saw that each student that walked in, had a "bored-out-of-my-mind" look, sat down and started "playing" in a way that looked a whole lot like how I look when I have to wash dishes.  Drudgery. 

That shocked me because that was NOT my experience with piano. My own experience...was this exciting, curious journey playing random notes and noticing every now and then that some notes sounded good together. 

That evolved into figuring out which key on piano goes with what note in sheet music, then guessing if I what I heard could be picked out on the piano... and discovering a whole world where I could express feelings I couldn't put into words!

As I studied pedagogy for singing and piano, I quickly realized that many of those students of that other teacher were playing only to find the right notes, please the teacher and get out of there. 

They had never discovered what it was like to freely experiment and express themselves through music, through the piano even if its the first lesson. 

So that's what this video is intended to do and how piano and voice lessons work in my studio. 

You'll have some structure so that you're not totally lost (like I most certainly was when I started piano) but also immediate creative application of what you learn, so that learning opens you up to possibility rather than playing just to "do it right". In other words, to have fun, rather than have more work.