About Me

Hey, I'm Benjamin.

And I was raised in VA by a Musical Wizard of a Mom.
My Mom is truly one of the best Pianists I know. You can set about any piece of sheet music in front of her, and she can play it without ever having seen it before.

So as you'd expect, I took piano lessons from age 5 to about age 13, and honestly, I hated it. I learned all these random songs using sheet music, but it was never the style that I wanted to learn. I wanted to learn Pop-Punk.  Relient K & Yellowcard were the bands I liked at the time. And Sheet Music was definitely not helping me get there.
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After 8 years of learning piano with sheet music, I still didn't know how to play piano. I couldn't Improvise.  I couldn't sing & play.  And I definitely couldn't play pop-punk.

I was fed up, and my Mom knew it, so she let me choose a different instrument to learn.  I opted with guitar and she signed me up for guitar lessons with a Berklee graduate. He was the first one to teach me Music Theory, & the Number System.

I was hooked. Within about 6 Months, I had started a band, taught myself Piano, and was well on my way to becoming a well-rounded musician.

I don't want you to go through the 8 years of pain that I did trying to learn Music with Sheet Music. That's why I created the Music Academy.