Lisa Spector

Piano Practice Strategist | Juilliard Graduate | Right Hand Injury Survivor

I've taught hundreds of dedicated adult pianists how to stop practicing blind and start making real progress faster.

If you practice daily and still are feeling slow progress, that's not a talent problem. That's a strategy problem. And that's exactly what I fix.

Since graduating Juilliard, I've taught piano at the university level, owned a music school, toured internationally, won 1st prizes in national piano competitions, advanced to finals in international competitions, performed to arenas of 18,000 in China and recorded music for pet anxiety that gained national and international press.

Currently I devote my time to helping members of the Piano Ninja Tricksters Club built around Piano Ninja Tricks™, a focused practice system designed to make your progress predictable.

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My Juilliard degree went to the dogs!

For over a decade, I devoted my music to improving the lives of dogs. NPR called me “The Pet Calming Maestro.” I appeared on the CBS Early Show, ABC Australia, and DOGTV. And I became the only classical pianist to reach Billboard's Classical Top 20 with pet music.

You can hear it all at CanineClassical.com

Then in 2017, everything stopped.

A traumatic accident shattered my right hand . Seven complicated fractures. Four surgeries. Three years. A medical professional told me I'd never play piano again.

I didn't listen.

First I started learning music for left hand only. Then after 186 occupational hand therapy sessions, I rebuilt my technique from scratch. That process taught me more about how pianists actually learn than anything else in my 30+ year career. When you can't rely on habit or muscle memory, you have to get strategic. That gave birth to Piano Ninja Tricks™.

  • "It doesn’t matter how many hands are on the keys, I make music with my heart."

In 2021, I founded The Piano Ninja Tricksters Club, where I help classical pianists practice deliberately, not desperately. 

Because it doesn't matter how many hands are on the keys. What matters is what you do with your practice time.

  • "The pianists who progress fastest aren't the ones who practice the most.
    They just practice strategically."
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