Piano Ninja Tricksters Club
Practice Less.
Play More.
For Intermediate to Advanced Classical Pianists
Piano Ninja Tricksters™ Club
Double Your Proficiency In Half The Time
After I Broke My Hand,
I Was Told I'd Never Play Piano Again
I'm Lisa Spector, a Juilliard graduate. When a bizarre fall caused seven complicated fractures to my right hand (needing four surgeries), my hand therapist told me I'd never play piano again. Little by little, I applied a series of secret techniques I'd learned from the best, until I was playing Chopin Sonatas and Etudes, Rachmaninoff and Brahms to my heart's content. What got me there? I call them my Piano Ninja Tricks, and now I'm teaching them to you.
Introducing The Piano Ninja Tricksters™ Club
Are you a dedicated intermediate to advanced level classical pianist — teen to senior — that loves playing Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and the great composers, but…
- You're tired of everything taking so long to learn
- You feel like you're wasting away your practice time
- You don't know which étude or sonata to play first
- You can't figure out an efficient fingering
- You can't get to your in-person piano lessons during Covid
In the Piano Ninja Tricksters Club, I help dedicated adult classical pianists learn music you love (in the right order) with piano ninja tricks that empower you to play with ease and joy. You'll be learning tricks I learned from my studies with (name drop warning) Earl Wild at Juilliard, John Perry while getting my master's degree at U.S.C., and during private lessons with Leon Fleisher.
I'll teach you to start with good habits and avoid the bad habits that cause major time sinks that get you stuck on the same piece of music forever without it ever getting easier! Whether you’re playing Bach Preludes, Chopin Ballades, or Brahms Intermezzi, you’ll learn tricks to make your time at the piano more enjoyable and productive.
You don't need to practice more. You need to practice less while practicing smart. Piano Ninja Tricks helps you do that so you can focus on making music with joy and ease.
Enrollment closes 2/1
Bonuses with annual membership
Bonuses For
Annual MembersTotal Value $564!
Chopin Revolutionary Etude
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Mentorship
In addition to the pre-recorded 40+ short-form videos with all the Piano Ninja Tricks, we meet LIVE twice a month. Once for a Piano Ninja Tricks Demo where I demonstrate how I practice, and a Mastery Class where you submit your music excerpts you need help with and I show how I'd approach them.
Wherever You Live
I’m taking my piano teaching from my piano studio to you, in the privacy and comfort of your home, wherever you live in the world. The membership is self-paced, for you to learn at the tempo best for you and your time at the piano.
Play Piano With Ease
I'll be distilling the most valuable tools and techniques I've learned through four decades of student feedback and results. The membership is designed to build experientially. This allows you to apply the Piano Ninja Tricks to any music you're learning.
Piano Ninja Tricks™ you'll learn
- Memorize music with ease
- Increase your octave speed with ease
- Learn music from scratch, starting with good habits
- Play trills forever without tiring
- Add color to your sound with the damper pedal
- How to start every practice session (It’s not what you think!)
- How to end every practice session
- Use Cyclical Rhythm to save you time and why
- Efficiently and quickly correct wrong notes
- Determine your best time of day to practice
- Accelerate your learning by putting rhythm first
- Play outside your comfort zone
- Play faster without a metronome
- Choose effective fingering that minimizes movement
- Play legato and into the keys
- Sight-reading tips
- Find patterns in music that save you a ton of time
- Practice smarter without practicing more
- Make stage nerves your best friend
- Stay relaxed and supple while playing
- Emotionally prepare for a performance
- How to win the musician's mind game
- AND we’ll cover additional topics of your choice by request
This is the community for you if...
- Your heart is calling you to play music of the great composers
- You want to learn more music in less time
- You don't know what order to learn your music
- You enjoy being in a community of pianists who share your love of music
- You're a dedicated classical pianist intermediate to advanced level
- You don't know how to choose the best fingering
- You struggle with technique
- You want your piano practicing to be more enjoyable
- You want to play with your heart, focusing on the music you love
- You want your playing to feel effortless
$44 a month (2 Free Months for annual members)
Piano Ninja Tricksters joining now will be grandfathered into that price for life, as long as your membership stays current. Future members will be paying $88 a month, while you stay at your reduced price.
I’m making this so affordable at $44 a month for new members so you can shape this club with me. Tell me what will be helpful for you to learn. Your piano wish is my command. This is a rare opportunity. While I’ve been teaching this material for over 40 years in person, The Piano Ninja Tricksters Club is now available to any pianist anywhere in the world.
Throughout I’ll be your personal piano ninja, teaching you everything I learned from studying with the best piano instructors on the planet and from 50 years of playing piano and performing on stages in France, Spain, Poland, Italy, China and throughout the United States.
I wouldn’t be the pianist I am today without those early lessons. I’ll be passing on priceless gems I’ve learned from my instructors, along with what I’ve learned in 40 years of teaching piano.
You'll Also Get
PIANO NINJA TRICKS
Private Facebook Community
You’ll connect to a passionate community of pianists, like you, who devote time to learning music and improving their piano skills. There is great value in connecting with your fellow piano ninja students. You'll have the opportunity to share videos, ask for feedback, and share your practice wins.
Two Live Demonstrations Per Month
Monthly, I'll take you along with me in the music I'm learning and demonstrate how I apply the Piano Ninja Tricks to learn twice as much in half my time.
And a Mastery Class where I'll show you how I'd apply my Piano Ninja Tricks to the music you're working on.
What Piano Ninja Tricks™ Students Are Saying
"I'm using the piano ninja tricks daily and am amazed at how much quicker I'm learning and re-learning music."
Ken C.
“Your two-note phrase exercise loosens the arm and defines phrasing. I loved this course — content and charm!”
Sue H.
“The work on fingering is astonishingly helpful.”
Jay M.
“The beauty of Piano Ninja Tricks is that some of the topics wouldn't come up during a one-on-one lesson but are quite helpful to study in a casual, virtual setting with fellow pianists. And, I really loved the session on The Mind Game.”
Eric H.
"As an experienced piano teacher but an out of practice performer, Piano Ninja Tricks helped inspire me to get back to focusing on my own piano practice routine. I finished the course feeling refreshed and motivated to apply new techniques to my practicing and performing..”
Everly H.
“Lisa has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share in her tips and tricks that is sure to be valuable to any serious pianist, amateur or professional.”
Elizabeth B.
About Lisa Spector,
Your Piano Ninja
My love of teaching began in high school when I assisted my piano teacher's students with technique. Later, while a student at Juilliard, I taught children in New York City. Then, as a teaching assistant during grad school at U.S.C., the group classes I taught were video recorded for review. The feedback from the esteemed head of pedagogy was priceless.
I’m grateful for this early teaching experience. It later lead me to a position on the music faculty at Santa Clara University and then opening a music school in Half Moon Bay, CA. My mission was to educate through joy and encouragement while enriching the lives in my community with exceptional music.
In recent years, I’ve specialized in teaching adults. Their dedication and commitment is inspiring. Some are retired, many have busy working lives and family commitments, and yet adding music lessons actually helps provide balance to their lives while improving their work proficiency.
I’m in my genius zone when I’m helping my students make the most of their limited practice time. Improving as a pianist is never about practicing more, it’s always about practicing smarter. And that’s what I’m here to help you do.
Rates mentioned were introductory founding member rates.
FAQ's
Yes, our community has a private Facebook group AND all content and videos are in a Searchie Hub. Searchie is the world's first search engine for video content. All videos are in the Searchie Hub and also available as audio downloads and transcripts.
You can search for anything taught, i.e. “Where did Lisa mention trills?”, and Searchie will take you to the exact place I mentioned it in the video, audio, or transcript. Also, your Searchie Hub has the option to translate to other languages.
For some members it is, for others it isn't. No matter what, The Piano Ninja Tricksters Club will help improve the quality of your private lessons and, most likely, diminish the frequency of them.
You'll have lifetime access, as long as you stay a member in good standing.
No, everything is self-paced to suit your life and time. You can proceed through the material at the perfect pace for you.
It's not an essential part of Piano Ninja Tricks Membership.
No, but you're able to drop out at anytime you want and you won't be charged for future months. We ask that you communicate with us why you've chosen to leave?
No. You need to stay a member in good standing to stay at the reduced price. We do make exceptions for unexpected extenuating life circumstances. These are reviewed on a case by case situation.
No, as long as you stay a member in good standing, your price will always remain the same, even when it's higher for new members.
Intermediate to advanced amateur to professional.
You'll have access to the pre-recorded videos right away. We meet for Lives, twice a month. Those sessions are recorded and will also live in your Searchie Hub.
That's up to you. The membership doesn't include individual lessons, but you're welcome to post videos in our Facebook group. And, you have a free one-hour private lesson with the annual plan. You can redeem that in two thirty minute lessons or one one-hour lesson.
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