Eden Piano Academy

The Eden Piano Academy is a piano-learning programme for beginners which bridges the gap between video lectures and traditional one-to-one piano lessons.

My unique method consists of a series of carefully graded video courses PLUS, crucially, opportunities to get feedback on your progress from a piano teacher with over 30 years' experience.

The Problem with Teaching Yourself

Starting to learn piano can be a confusing business. Where to start is only... well... the start of it.

Lack of understanding of the piano repertoire and difficulty levels - You don't know how to move forward - "what should I play next?"

You have no idea if you're doing it right.

You may struggle to motivate yourself some days.

You may struggle to motivate yourself some days.

How Can the Eden Piano Academy Help You?

Always know what to play next. Access to carefully graded video lessons, takes you from the very beginning to playing the music of the great composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart and many more.

Understand your strengths, be aware of things you're doing wrong, and get insights on how to correct them. You get access to a very experienced piano teacher. Ask as many questions as you like or submit videos of your playing to get supportive and helpful feedback designed to move you forward as quickly as possible.

Say goodbye to the practice blues. Stay motivated and excited to play by becoming part of a thriving piano community where you can support and be supported, overseen by a well-qualified piano instructor.

Hit the ground running with a free thirty-minute one-to-one onboarding session. Discuss your goals and the best way to achieve them. Learn to get the most value out of your membership. A great opportunity to ask questions about anything Academy-related.

Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I'm Carl Eden and I have been teaching piano to both young and old for over 30 years.

From the age of 9 I knew that I wanted to teach music and, in 1991, after taking a degree in music and a diploma in piano playing, I finally became a PGCE qualified music teacher. In the intervening years I have run various school music departments in the UK and have worked as a music standards verifier for one of the UK's premiere exam boards, Edexcel, working with schools and colleges to deliver effective music programmes. In 2015, I decided to leave mainstream education to focus on private piano teaching.

I quickly realised that I didn't like any of the existing adult piano primer books and so one of my students said, "Well write your own then!" This led to my first video course, "An Accelerated Piano Course for Beginners," which now has over 6000 students across various online learning platforms.

The problem was that students had no access to feedback on what they were doing. How did they know they were doing it right? How did they know they were progressing as effectively as possible?

I pondered this for a long time. The video course format is a one-way street - information travels from the instructor to the student - but I knew from experience the learning process is a 2-way dialogue in which the student asks questions and presents what they have learned for constructive advice in order for them to improve and move forward confidently.

My mission is to give you that 2-way experience by allowing learners to ask as many questions as you need to plus, crucially, get feedback and encouragement on your playing either in a community discussion group, by one-to-one private chat, by live video drop-in sessions and even by live one-to-one mini lessons, depending on your preferred method.