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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by kace91 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @09:46AM (#25527866)
If any of you is fluent in Spanish and want to learn to play piano, I can't recommend Jaime altozano enough (he's on YouTube). He's the best music teacher and communicator I've seen in any language, I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math.

He also has some paid courses available in https://www.musihacks.com/ but just the free content is already awesome to understand modes, scales, pregressions, etc

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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by kjsthree on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:45AM (#25529036)
Well, now I know about 3Blue1Brown so thanks for that!
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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by xtracto on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:21PM (#25532944)
Interesting the course looks good. Long time ago I saw the "Learn & Master" piano courses courses which are really good. As a hobbyist guitar player, learning piano is one of those things that I want to do once I retire and have time.
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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by markdown on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:45PM (#25531725)
> I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math

Never heard of that person, but I'm intrigued. Are they better than Sal Khan?

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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by Double_Cast on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:37PM (#25532659)
IIRC Grant formerly made videos for Khan Academy, and thus uses the same virtual-blackboard as Sal. However, Grant animates with a Python lib whereas Sal draws by hand.
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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by kace91 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:19PM (#25532933)
Well, the best answer is to check for yourself! Here's his series of linear algebra videos for example:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...

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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by HarryHirsch on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:03PM (#25532355)
Absolutely. Khan Academy teaches unconnected facts in the way that US schools operate, but 3blue1brown aims for understanding.
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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by scarecrowbob on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:35PM (#25532639)
On one hand I agree- the big picture stuff is better with 2blue1brown. On the other hand, as far as doing the actual exercises that make me better at solving problems, Kahn felt a lot better.

I personally value being able to solve random problems better, as it makes me feel like I know the material better when I can apply it, but I think rational folks could disagree.

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Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free by martin_vejmelka on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:08AM (#25528064)
Awesome tip, thanks for that!
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