RM 90 bucks?! You got to be kidding me. That's way too underpriced.

lol, abuthen? pipu think piano teacher earn sh~t load and yet they insist to pay as cheap as possible.

LOL... This is just NORMAL price =.=

True...

This is a bit late in coming but I just stumbled onto this. I just happen to know my schoolmate who, without any knowledge of music, went for the Play By Ear course and within 1 year, she sat for her Grade3 LCM exam and passed with distinction. Next year, she at for Grade 5 and Grade 6 the year after that.

You bet I was amazed. It normally takes 4 years to go for Grade 3!

I went for music lessons the conventional way and my parents have spent easily more than RM8000 for that 4 years compared to RM2250 you mentioned which my friend completed less than 1 year. I also hated my lessons. It's no fun. I was so envious of her having so much fun not to mention how much time she saved -3 years!

In that respect, 2250 vs 8000+ is peanuts lah if you include saving 3 years of hardship.

On top of that, my friend's mother decided on it because of the Money Back Guarantee.

When you mentioned "no testimonial", I got curious and did a search. I saw a lot of testimonials. What do you mean, "no testimonials"? Did you miss something?

Maybe your friend is musically talented to begin with perhaps? XD for my case i had a year of yamaha junior music school before going to the usual ABRSM.. my teacher let me learn grade 1 and 2 at my first year and decided for me to jump to grade 2 straight away.. it was 300 a month back in the day and i was 8 YO at that time. then grade 3 the year after and then 5 when i was 11 years old. Had a pause due to UPSR and learn grade 6 and 7 but didnt go for exams at form 1.. That was the time my mom tried me for Play By Ear. It did not go very well for me as i was too technical. (im pretty sure it's play by ear but they're teachings inclined more to jazz and improvised chords. At the time i can only play if i had the sheets ). But i can understand that the lesson is fun as you mustly play current songs compared to baroque tons of JS bach and his cursed accented notes

Actually not everyone can learn by ear. Some people are better than others. I think it is worth a try.
I have a good friend who learned piano on his own. He can play better than many people who were forced by their parents to learn piano.
Interest and talent quite important. Should give it a try.

Every musician should know how to play by ear. After all, we all listen by ear. .

I think it's a rip off....play by ear ..depends you have good ears or not.

Last time my music teacher once told me, some people are tone deaf, if you got talent, can learn play by ears very easily.

Me, i will suggest you save your money, go to a normal class and then learn to play by ears by watching some youtube videos. i saw some pretty good ones before.

I sometimes do play by ear...although the result not so fancy as a professional scores, but at least i get some simple results. Besides, you just improvise from there to make the song nicer once you get the basic of a song.

I suspect your friend has decent talents to begin with.

one year ago at puchong area just RM80. Depends on area actually. In Mount kiara beginners is RM130.

so true.
I thought proceed to master degree could get higher rates, unfortunately that's NO.
In puchong area they can give up to 64%, in mount kiara they just give 55% for start and max to 60%comission.

Whatever it is, to learn 12 time faster is quite a claim and even to issue a money back guarantee; they must have some special secrets they have.

If I can afford the 2250, I certainly would check them out. After all, getting the results in 1/12 the time is well worth it - my 2 cents.

kinda difficult unless really talented, youtube best teacher though haha

is there such classes around klang valley?