How to Read Any Chart — chord guide cover
The chord guide · $19 · Instant download

Read any chart. Find any chord.

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Five ways in. Start anywhere.

How to Read Any Chart — chord guide cover
The chord guide · $19

Read any chord chart

Power-packed with every tip you need to play the charts of your favorite songs — sus vs add, slash chords, inversions, all 12 majors.

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Master Every Key
The book · $49.99

Play any song, in any key

The chord guide shows you how to read the chords. The book teaches you how to play them: the scale in every key, rhythm and the left hand, the number system to move any song into any key, and your first solo. About 106 pages, and the whole chord guide is inside it.

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Live class · $240

A month with me, live

Eight live sessions in a small group on Webex, Tuesdays and Fridays at noon Central — November 3 to December 1. We work through Master Every Key together, and the book is included. Eight seats, small on purpose; enrollment closes Monday, November 2.

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The 20 Song Medley Jump — cover
Free · PDF

Play 20 songs with 4 chords

C, G, Am and F — one shape, moved four times. Twenty songs you already know, ready to play tonight.

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The Chords in C — all seven chords in the key of C on one page
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Every chord in the key of C

Seven chords, one on each note of the C scale — the keys to press, the fingers to use, and four progressions to play them through. One page, free.

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The four chords, the twenty songs, the lyric-and-chord sheets and the play-along track — free. Tell me where to send it.

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About Bryce

I've taught piano for twenty years, and before that I spent twenty-five years on the road playing it for a living. Somewhere in there I worked out that the way most of us are taught is the reason most of us quit.

Most piano teaching starts with notation and hopes you last long enough to play something you actually like. I go the other way round. Learn to read a chord chart and you can sit down at any piano, open any song, and play it — in any key.

That's the whole method. It's what I teach my students at Elevate Rock School, it's what Lisa and I wrote into our book, and it's what I show you in every video I make.

You're not starting over and you're not too late. The 20 Song Medley Jump starts it free, the chord guide and the book take it through all 12 keys, and we work through it together, live, in the Bootcamp.

Keep playing and remember, have fun!— Bryce

Not sure where to begin?

Start with the 20 Song Medley Jump — four chords, twenty songs, the sheets and the play-along track — and it costs nothing.

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