It's for everyone.

Including your children. Play and no-stress musical exploration is one of the best ways to give music to them for life.  Most children around 9 or 10 can play and create with chords, and in summer, each week will include ideas for children to explore sound on the piano creatively, as well as ideas for making spontaneous music together for family members of all ages and skill levels.

Chord fluency is foundational to being able to play and create freely on any instrument, and developing this understanding on the piano is the best way to internalize it fully (and for life!).

This summer in the café, in the live piano labs and in the daily menu challenges, we will play in (and with!) one major or minor key each week, starting with C and A minor in June, and then through all of the sharp keys throughout the summer. (C, Am, G, Em, D, Bm, A, F#m, E, C#m, B, and G#m!).  Each week will also feature a summer song and summer piano piece to play in the key of the week.

In the Fall and Winter of 2026, we play and create with all of the flat keys in the café.

If you miss some weeks this summer because of travel, etc., it is not necessary to go back through the keys you missed in order to jump right back into the café class and weekly menu.  You will be able to take on new keys logically and confidently once you have been through the first two key classes of the summer, which set up our protocol for each key we explore.   (After each live class, there will also be a replay you can watch if you miss anything or want to review it later.)  

We will also be creating melodies and painting with other colors on piano inside of these keys, as being fluent and free in a key is not just about the 7 chords inside the key, but how every note in the scale (and the ones outside of the scale) relate to and resolve in the context of the key we are are playing in. 

No, nothing in the Paris Creative Piano Café is pre-made or repurposed.  Everything is made daily and weekly in real time, as this is a responsive, living, breathing experience which will evolve according to questions, conversations, and creative responses to what is offered along the way as we go through the summer and through the keys and musical ideas we will be playing with!

So fun! 

This class is designed for musicians of all skill levels, and not just pianists, but also for other instrumentalists or singers who recognize how essential it is for their musicianship to have command of chords and keys on piano.  Knowing the names of the piano keys and already having a little piano skill going in is helpful, but I've had students as young as 11 with just beginning piano skills who took off immediately with chords, transposing easily into each new key with confidence and creativity. Pretty cool!

Yes!  On the checkout page, there is an option to check for this and then follow the instructions. 

This program comes with a 7-day full refund policy, no questions asked!  If you find this is not a fit for you, please let me know and I will refund your payment. 

No. Not necessarily.

You can.  You may decide to. You may even be intensely working on building technical prowess on your instrument.

Or you may not. Or somedays you won't be able to.  Maybe you just had a baby. (Or twins!). You might be in a stressful work phase.   Or you just don't feel like it after such a crazy day.

But whatever your days or life look like, free and expressive music making can and should be a part of it.

You will have access to everything offered here in the summer 2026 in the Paris Creative Piano Café forever!  This is not a recurring membership.