WELCOME to the Music Innovator's Workshop
OUR MISSION - To make the delights of keyboard music more accessible for everyone who would like to play - especially for those who have difficulty learning to read music.
This website is gratefully dedicated to my piano students, both past and present, who have been my inspiration and who have made this website and its music possible. I love you more than you will ever know!
Grampa John
About Our Website
This site is primarily about music for the keyboard. It focuses on instruction and sheet music for beginning and intermediate students. The instruction is designed to help students learn to play with a minimum of stress in a relatively short amount of time. This is accomplished using several unique methods of teaching and learning developed by this workshop - including learning and playing from the key maps that are featured here. These key maps are sheet music that visualizes keyboard music by showing the actual locations of your fingers on the keyboard as you play - with visual timelines for the rhythm.
What You Will Find on This Site
You'll find several piano courses and a lot of piano sheet music. Two of the courses and most of the sheet music are based on the simplified notation developed by the Music Innovators Workshop. This notation makes it easier to learn to play and takes much of the stress out of learning to play-and-read-music at the same time. We call this notation "keyboard maps," or "key maps" or "kmaps" for short. Link: About Key Maps. All materials are protected by copyright, but are made available under our Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial/No Derivatives license. CC License
Where to Find the Information About Our Music and Courses - Links to the main categories of music and courses are found in the navigation bar extending across the top of each page of this site - and at the bottom of this page. For more information on navigating this site: Site Help
How to View Our Sheet Music and Courses - These materials are found through links to pdf files. These links appear at the ends of the pages describing them.