Hi, I'm Shawn Cheek!
I’ve taught piano lessons for 36 years, over half of that time was spent teaching 50 students a week, side by side on the piano bench, gaining all the expertise and experience that I pour into every video lesson on webpianoteacher.com.
Somewhere along the way, I became aware of a serious flaw in the standard method of teaching piano, which is stuck in a rigid classical note reading tradition. If you only want to read music and play Bach and Beethoven, this is fine. But what about the great majority of people who just want to play the songs they grew up with, without having to make a life commitment to learning to read traditional music notation?
That’s when I invented my revolutionary tablature system that I would eventually use on webpianoteacher.com. My new method was successful immediately, and my students who had previously experienced only frustration and boredom at having to struggle with notation for songs like London Bridge and Mary Had A Little Lamb in the popular method books out there, were now smiling and having fun as they played the chords to Piano Man and Let It Be in just minutes.