I help adults go from zero to playing their favorite songs in months, not years. Say goodbye to boring children's songs and hello to The Beatles, Billy Joel, Adele, John Legend, and more.
Do you ever wish you could just…
I know how frustrating it is to get stuck playing the same old children's songs, feeling like you're not making any progress. The good news? I'm here to change all that.
after our adult recital & social!
Music runs in the family. My grandmother and great-grandmother both played the piano, and they're the reason I started too.
I took traditional lessons from age 8 all the way through high school. And like so many beginners, I spent years playing simple children's songs before I ever got to play music I actually loved.
I stuck with it, and it took me to college on the Johns Hopkins Piano Scholarship. I earned my bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of Georgia.
After college, I taught music in public schools. I learned a lot about teaching, but I didn't love being told exactly what and how to teach. So I started a piano lessons side hustle after work, where I finally had the freedom to teach my own way.
Before long, that side hustle had a waitlist. So I left my full-time teaching job and went all in. It grew into a full music school with a team of instructors, hundreds of students, lessons for many instruments, rock bands, and more.
Between public schools, running my own music school, and teaching online, I've seen just about every way there is to learn piano.
My music school was always popular with adults, from total beginners to people coming back after childhood lessons. And I noticed a pattern: traditional lessons just didn't work for them. Method books that start with “Mary Had a Little Lamb” didn't exactly inspire anyone.
So I built something different.
A method built for adults that skips the children's music and overwhelming theory, and teaches exactly what you need to play your favorite songs. It became what I call The SONG System, the foundation of everything I teach today.
Watching it work made me want to share it with adults all over the world. So after a decade of running my music school, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: I sold it to focus fully on PIANOLY. It was bittersweet, but it meant I could pour everything into helping adults like you finally play the music you love.
So if you've been dreaming of learning piano, you're in the right place...
“My mission: turn the songs you love into songs you play.”
