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“A real song by Sunday” isn't a slogan — it's my promise. — Lars
These are the four chords I'd teach you first. Press one.
Sound on 🔊 — it plays for real, and you can click the keys too
You just played the progression behind “Let It Be”, “Someone Like You”, “No Woman No Cry” — and thousands more.
This is how the people who write the songs actually play them — and it's teachable in a month.
12 chord shapes cover most popular music. You'll play your first one in the first five minutes — the course hears you and responds.
Six left-hand patterns turn chords into music — ballads, pop, arpeggios. This is the step that makes you sound like a pianist.
Learn to read chord charts — the shorthand behind every song on the internet — and the whole catalog of popular music opens up.
Not videos you watch — an instrument you play. Every lesson checks what you play and answers back.
The Chord Explorer is an electric piano built into the site: press a button, see exactly which keys make the chord, hear it — then play it back and the display confirms you got it.
Weeks of decoding notation before you played anything you'd want to hear. Imagine learning to read before being allowed to speak.
Scales, drills, “Ode to Joy” on repeat. Fine for a nine-year-old with a decade ahead. Demoralizing for an adult who wants to play this year.
Motivation dies when nothing you practice sounds like music you love. So practice stops. So you quit — and blame yourself.
The people who write the songs you love mostly don't read sheet music either. They think in chords. That's what we teach you.
No guesswork, no wondering if you're doing it right. Click through — everything on the right is the real course, live.
Most popular music is built from a small set of chords played in patterns. Master the shapes, move between them smoothly, add a left-hand rhythm — and nearly any song is yours.
One progression · C – G – Am – F
Same four chords, different keys & rhythms. Play the pattern once, and you can play all of them.
Every module ends with something you can actually play. By day 30, you can open the chord chart of a song you've never studied — and play it.
Hand position, your first four chords, smooth changes. You play a full progression in lesson one.
The 12 shapes behind most popular music — majors, minors, 7ths — plus inversions for effortless changes.
Six accompaniment patterns — ballad, pop, arpeggio and more. The module that makes chord players sound like pianists.
Take any song from a chord website and turn it into music — keys, structure, simplifying tricky chords.
Complete performances built together, start to finish — and the process to do it with any song you love next.
I've spent my life making music. I compose and produce calm piano music that listeners around the world stream millions of times every month — and I built this course out of a simple conviction: the way adults are taught piano is broken.
You don't need ten years of theory. You need real songs, early wins, and a method that respects your time. That's what this is. And if a lesson ever lets you down, email me — a real person reads every message.
— Lars
“I've always wanted to play. I just never started.”
If that sentence is yours, this was built for you. Thirty days, twenty minutes a day — and it's no longer true.
No subscription. No drip-feed. The full method, yours for life.
We're not trying to keep you paying. We're trying to get you playing.
The 30-Day Chord Method
Interactive course · Lifetime access
One-time payment — not per month
30-day “play a real song” guarantee. Finish module one and if you can't play your first song, email me for a full refund. No forms, no hoops. — Lars
Questions
Any keyboard with 61+ keys works — a second-hand one for $50–80 is genuinely fine to start. Touch-sensitive keys are nice but optional in month one. When you join the free lessons, we send you a one-page buying guide so you don't overspend.
No — and adults actually have an advantage with this method. Chord-based playing rewards pattern recognition and consistency, which adults are better at than kids. What kills adult learners is the 10-year classical path. This isn't that.
No. You'll learn to read chord charts — a few letters above the lyrics, the same shorthand professional session musicians use. If you can read “C … G … Am … F”, you're already most of the way there.
20 minutes a day is the design target. The lessons are 15–25 minutes and each ends with exactly what to practice. Twenty focused minutes daily beats a 3-hour Sunday session — the course is built around that habit.
Honest answer: you'll be able to play the chord accompaniment of most popular songs from a chord chart — which is how singer-songwriters play them. Fast, complex pieces will still be beyond a 30-day beginner (anyone who promises otherwise is lying to you). But “play along with nearly any song you love” — yes, that's exactly what the method delivers.
Full refund within 30 days, one email, no questions beyond “what didn't work?” (we genuinely want to know). You risk one month and zero dollars.
Five free interactive lessons. Twenty minutes each. By Sunday you'll be playing your first song — then decide if you want the rest.
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