Classical Piano with Christie Peery
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Course Structure Classical Piano with Christie Peery
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
Master the piano with Christie Peery’s famed Peery method. A complete lesson roadmap from absolute beginner techniques to build musculature and form good habits, to advanced techniques across varied repertoire.
Fundamentals
Build strong habits with expert practice tips, posture, and the Peery Method essentials.
Level One Fundamentals
Learn how to begin piano study with healthy habits, goal-setting, and certification guidance.
How to Practice Piano Pieces for Skilled Players
Build a well-rounded routine with guidance on practicing and certifying in the Players track.
Level One Muscular
Build foundational strength and control through focused muscular training at the keyboard.
Intermediate Musical Level One
Learn varied repertoire from Baroque to modern to deepen tone, phrasing, and artistry.
Intermediate Muscular Level One
Explore essential keys and exercises to build coordination, theory, and finger strength.
Level One Practical
Explore foundational piano techniques with a focus on daily practice and measurable goals.
Intermediate Musical Level Two
Learn intermediate repertoire that develops control, phrasing, and stylistic variety.
Intermediate Muscular Level Two
Build fluency with expanded scales, triads, and studies for control, theory, and technique.
Level One Musical
Explore the expressive side of piano playing with focused musicality and performance skills.
Intermediate Musical Level Three
Refine intermediate skills with classical favorites and expressive character pieces.
Intermediate Muscular Level Three
Build coordination and control with structured exercises and engaging study repertoire.
Intermediate Supplemental
Explore advanced tools like cadences, broken chords, and dominant 7ths for confident playing.
Intermediate Musical Level Four
Build expressive control through sonatinas, lyrical pieces, and classical miniatures.
Intermediate Muscular Level Four
Develop coordination and expression with rich technical drills and engaging repertoire.
Level Two Fundamentals
Continue building strong piano habits with guidance on practice, feedback, and progress.
Intermediate Musical Level Five
Explore expressive and stylistic variety with more sonatinas, preludes, and lyrical works.
Intermediate Muscular Level Five
Build control and artistry with expressive studies by Kabalevsky, Czerny, and Bergmüller.
Level Two Muscular
Develop technical control at the keyboard through focused strength and coordination work.
Advanced Musical Level Six
Build control and artistry with toccatas, sonatinas, and lyrical contemporary pieces.
Advanced Muscular Level Six
Strengthen your musical expression and control with focused, high-level piano studies.
30 Day Challenge
Level Two Practical
Strengthen note reading, rhythm, and technique through step-by-step practical lessons.
Advanced Musical Level Seven
Study expressive masterworks with a focus on phrasing, style, and refined technique.
Level Two Musical
Explore how to play with feeling through guided work in dynamics, style, and expression.
Advanced Musical Level Eight
Refine advanced technique and expression through diverse works from Bach to Piazzolla.
Level Three Fundamentals
Continue building strong routines with helpful practice tools and progress tracking.
Advanced Musical Level Nine
Strengthen advanced skills with expressive works by Bach and Haydn in minor keys.
Level Three Muscular
Advance your technique through focused drills that build precision, power, and agility.
Advanced Musical Level Ten
Explore lyrical phrasing and texture in works by Chopin and Muczynski.
Level Three Practical
Build consistent practice habits while expanding note reading and rhythmic accuracy.
Audition / Advanced
Prepare expressive repertoire and polish for advanced-level audition performance.
Level Three Musical
Refine musical expression with lessons in tone, phrasing, dynamics, and interpretation.
About Classical Piano with Christie Peery
Christie Peery has created a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of piano lessons, exclusive performances, and interviews. Students have unlimited access to all these online piano lessons plus notation, backing tracks, and other study materials. What ultimately sets these online lessons apart from other offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for personalized feedback using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Christie Peery reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to improve. All students can access Christie’s Video Exchange library, which is has been steadily expanding since 2009.
About Christie Peery
Christie Peery Skousen won her first international competition at the age of 13. At age 17 she studied with Dmitri Boshkirov at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow, and later attended Tanglewood in Massachusetts. At age 18, Christie studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University under Leon Fleisher. Christie has performed numerous times as a soloist with symphony orchestras around the world. She has won numerous national and international competitions including the Corpus Christi International and the Missouri Southern International. Other international prizes for Christie include the Junior division of the Gina Bachauer International and the Joanna Hodges Competition in California. In 1998 she co-founded and served as the Director of Business Operations for the Metta Academy of Music. Aside from her online piano lessons with ArtistWorks, Christie currently serves as the Master Teacher and founder of Peery Piano Academy and is the author of the Peery Piano Habits Program, a conservatory level teaching and certification system. She also serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory where she is Head of the "First Steps at the Keyboard" program.
What students are saying!
This could be a perfect course if all sheet music were available
This is a very thorough piano course. Maybe too thorough for someone who already knows music theory. This would be a very good course for starting small children with piano lessons...
High Quality Classical Piano Lessons
I took piano lessons from Christie at Artistworks for several years. Christie takes you step by step through a structured curriculum (the Peery Piano Method) and teaches you right ...
Christie Peery Piano
I am in my early sixties and am finally doing what I have wanted to for years, learn how to play classical piano. After spending quite some time researching options I decided to di...
Fantastic teacher!
Her instruction is so clear and detailed. I've improved greatly since beginning the course with her. Although I'd studied piano for 10 years as a child, many of the techniques she ...
Love her teaching methods
Her teaching style is wonderful. I need to practice more and apply her teachings.
Not ready for the musical challenge.
I thought these programs would be easy (wrong choice of word) to absorb. Thought they would be a little more demostratively hands on. Some on the materials in the piano package I c...
Very worthwhile for the long haul
I studied for a year with Christie Peery. I am a 60 something decent player, having taken 7 years of lessons in my youth. At first I was frustrated that I had to start as a beginne...
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