Piano Forums

Great Online Piano Communities

Ask questions, get answers, make friends, and grow your piano skills at piano forums!

The internet can be great -- information at your fingertips.

The ability to communicate with people all over the world with the click of a mouse!

You can inspire and motivate yourself, learn tons about piano playing, and meet pianists (from professionals to beginners) from everywhere at piano forums.

You have to be careful, though. It's pretty simple nowadays to throw up a message board on your website. If you search for piano forums you'll find quite a few.

But unless the owners are dedicated and actively involved, forums can turn into little more than spam central (and worse).

So I'll share with you my top picks for great web communities dedicated to piano playing. These are well-monitored forums, with good discussions and players of all levels and styles. I post regularly on these boards!

Each one of the boards has a different feel and I'm sure you'll soon have your own favorite!

The biggest, most active, and friendliest piano forums on the 'net are at Piano World.

A huge membership means active boards and quick answers to your piano playing questions!

There most popular forums are:

• pianos (instruments and manufacturers)
• playing the piano, performance, technique, composers & competitions
• piano players to discuss any music that isn't classical
• piano teachers
• adult beginners - HIGHLY recommended!!
• piano tuners & technicians
• digital pianos & keyboards
• composers

There are many others, too, to take part in. I post regularly in the adult piano forum and the piano teacher's forum (you'll see me there as PianoTeacherKim). The community is terrific - supportive, encouraging, and fun.

There are even online "recitals" where you can record pieces you're working on -- pretty fun! There are also regional get-togethers to meet other pianists and teachers.

Piano World's forums are by far my favorite; they are moderated enough to keep things from getting out of hand, and they are free enough that people can give their opinions (sometimes there are some pretty interesting discussions)!

Enjoy!

Another quality piano forum, Piano Street offers forums on performance, repertoire, teaching, instruments, auditions, students, and more.

Piano Street is a site for legal, downloadable classical sheet music and recordings. They used to have a free membership option, but now you can join for $3 US per month and have access to their library of 20,000 high-quality PDF files to download instantly.

They also have a great searchable music dictionary and a good blog about the classical piano world.

This is another site with big membership, active discussions, and pianists of all levels.

I post at Piano Street as PianoTeacherKim.

Hear and Play is a fun place to interact with other pianists and musicians of all kinds!

You'll need to sign up for the free lessons - you can do that right on the homepage - and then register for free access to the member's area (Hear and Play Zone).

Once there, you'll get to create your own profile (kind of like MySpace), make friends, take free lessons, and interact on the forums.

The free lessons and information on the site are excellent and well worth signing up for.

Unlike the Piano World and Piano Street forums (above), this is a more laid-back, less clasically-oriented community. Hear and Play started as a site with a great gospel piano course -- but has since grown by leaps and bounds and offers all kinds of courses for piano, organ, worship, jazz, ear training, drums, voice, and more. Really an amazing selection of learn-at-home music goodness.

When you need a break from discussions of Bach, Chopin, Hanon, piano pedagogy and all that piano seriousness, head on over to Hear and Play. I'm PianoTeacherKim here as well, so friend me and let me know you came from my site!

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