And why is the absence of a textbook, the very foundation of piano teaching, considered normal? As there're many textbooks on music theory such as harmony, composition and analysis. There're textbooks on music subjects such as music literature and solfeggio. And students and teachers use them just like they use other general education textbooks. These textbooks have an established plan, a system of teaching, regularities and rules of the subject. After passing the course offered in the textbooks, students always retain a clear plan of the subject — what actions will lead to the right results and what actions will lead to a mistake. Most importantly, each subject in its essence has some kind of a rebus that needs to be solved correctly with the help of competent and exact actions that will give the correct result.

But somehow it's all different in piano playing — no one gives clear formulas. Moreover, it's considered that it's just impossible to describe music in words, that there're no clear formulas naturally, that everything comes from the pianist's intuition, from his talent or genius. The only thing that teachers are able to do is to give a hint, like outside listeners, where it's possible to make music a little nicer, give an advice how to play one spot in a piece better from their own playing experience, or just copy other teachers — how to position hands and how fingers should feel while playing. As a result, the whole teaching comes to correcting initial mistakes, those that each student begins to make in the beginning of his training. That's because he learns to play not using the correct schemes, but his intuition. The difference that we notice in playing of older students depends on the following three factors — the teacher (lazy or hardworking), the pianist himself (developed musically more or less) and the surroundings (favorable or interfering).

The "PianoWell" system is the first musical ABC. All pianists who use it can initially correctly study the musical language — how to correctly write words, how to correctly express their thought through words. Thereby, pianist will have a possibility to learn playing initially correctly when nothing will prevent him from developing a fully fledged technique, when student will be able to become a real musician with all aspects of musical ear fully developed, when nothing will hinder his free expression through playing, when pianist will be able to quickly and qualitatively analyze and learn works, when pianist will be a creator, not just an imitator of someone's ideas. Most importantly, pianist will have a clear system of studying — when he knows what certain steps bring success and why not making these steps brings failure. Pianist will be fully responsible for the results of his studying, and he'll no longer spend a mass of time with his instrument with minimal results. He'll learn how to study effectively and independently and his homework will again begin to give him pleasure and joy, not disappointment and low spirits.

That's why students should be trained using the "PianoWell" system from the first days of their introduction to the piano. Children do an excellent job with all assignments and make astonishing progress because they are totally honest when completing assignments. Children's absolutely pure pictorial consciousness allows them to perfectly master all aspects of musical ear, while their hand movements, which are adjusted initially correctly, effectively develop technique, coordination and dexterity of fingers. Thereby, from the very early learning stage children develop self-reliance, their interest in lessons doesn't disappear because their feeling of comfort while playing gives them pleasure and satisfaction. In addition, parents who prepare their children for a professional pianist career retain their psychic health, calmness, and adequacy.

The textbook comes as "The Basic Course", "The Advanced Course", and "The Final Course".


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