FEATURED DROP · CLASSIC
Burn the Ground
A 14-minute progressive classic rebuilt as a four-minute piano-rock statement. Full stem pack, three keys (D, E, F), bass-isolated loop at 70 BPM and 90 BPM.
Open the transcriptionFOR INTERMEDIATE-TO-ADVANCED PIANISTS
Piano-rock is the genre nobody teaches. We built the school for it.
PianoRock delivers note-for-note transcriptions, stage-ready arrangement breakdowns, and live coaching from working touring keyboardists — so you stop sounding like a classical player wearing a rock wig and start sounding like a rock player who happens to play piano.
- 1,840+Note-for-note transcriptions
- 22,000Members across 94 countries
- 4.92/5Across 6,300+ verified reviews
ON THE BILL THIS WEEK
- Burn the Ground
- Tape Saturation Blues
- Seven Against Thebes
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New drop · Burn the Ground
New drop · Tape Saturation Blues
New drop · Seven Against Thebes
A BLUNT DIAGNOSIS
You sound like a classical player wearing a rock wig.
You learned to play by reading. You learned dynamics in a studio. You can sight-read Chopin, you can comp jazz changes, you can build a chord from any note in any key. And the moment you plug into a stage rig, you sound exactly like what you are — a trained pianist cosplaying as a rock keyboardist.
It is not a talent problem. It is a training problem. Every method, every method book, every YouTube series you have ever worked through was built for a different genre. Classical wants sustain, jazz wants voice-leading, and rock — the genre that built the modern keyboard rig, the genre that invented the Hammond sound, the genre that lives or dies on a drummer's backbeat — rock is the one that never got a curriculum.
PianoRock is that curriculum. We do not teach you to read better. We teach you to sound like you belong on the same bill as the drummer.
— The PianoRock Editorial Desk
THE SET LIST
Eight reasons this is the only serious option for piano-rock.
No synthesized features. No borrowed methods. No jazz-side hustle dressed up as rock. Here is what we actually built, and what each line item costs in the form of tours, gigs, and Saturday nights you do not get back.
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1,840+ note-for-note transcriptions
The largest piano-rock library on earth, spanning classic, modern, and prog. Ranked #1 by Piano Buyer magazine's 2023 buyer's guide.
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Three touring founder-coaches
Of our four co-founders, three are working touring keyboardists. Collectively they have played 2,600+ paid gigs on piano-rock bills. You learn from the players on the bill, not the theorists at the lectern.
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EPTA-certified rock module
The only piano-rock curriculum certified by the European Piano Teachers Association rock module. No other brand holds that endorsement.
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Stem-isolated loop engine
Every transcription ships with slowed-down loop practice files and stem-isolated bass, drums, and vocal tracks. Practice against the real arrangement, not a MIDI sketch of it.
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220+ live masterclasses
An archive of more than 220 sessions with named touring rock keyboardists and working sidemen. Watch the hands. Copy the rig. Steal the patch.
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4.92/5 across 6,300+ reviews
Verified student reviews on Trustpilot and Google. We publish the bad ones too — the wall is real, and it is dense.
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Conservatory prep, used officially
Used as the official prep resource by applicants to 41 university and conservatory keyboard programs since 2019. Not a flex we invented — a tally the programs reported back to us.
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11 features in 5 years
Keyboard Magazine, Piano Power, and Sound On Sound have run our work 11 times between 2020 and 2025. The Independent Music Awards named us Best Music Education Resource 2024.
The set list is closed. The next up is you.
Book a Free Fit CallTHE TRANSCRIPTION SLATE
This week on the slate — three note-for-note drops.
Classic, modern, and prog. Every transcription ships with the stem-isolated loop engine and a written arrangement breakdown from one of our coaches.
FEATURED DROP · CLASSIC
MODERN
Tape Saturation Blues
Modern piano-rock with a stomp-box-driven arrangement. Includes rig patch sheet for the Nord Electro 6 and the Hammond XK-5.
PROG
Seven Against Thebes
Eleven-minute prog head rebuilt for a four-piece piano-rock band. Three time-signature changes, three key modulations, one keyboard rig.
THE COACHES
Three touring keyboardists. 2,600+ paid piano-rock gigs. Zero theory hand-me-downs.
Three of our four co-founders still tour. They teach what they play for a living — arrangements, rigs, setlists, stagecraft — and they answer their own coaching DMs between soundcheck and loadout.
CO-FOUNDER · COACH
Mara Voss
Specialises in stadium-energy arrangements for 61- and 73-key stage rigs. Built the PianoRock loop engine. Closes every coaching intake personally.
CO-FOUNDER · COACH
Owen Healey
Specialises in prog arrangements, odd-time signatures, and dual-keyboard rigs. Leads the annual PianoRock Summit. Plays Hammond XK-5 and a beaten Nord C2.
CO-FOUNDER · COACH
Davor Lindqvist
Specialises in modern piano-rock, stem-isolated practice, and gear-pedal chains. Built the transcription QA pipeline that lets us publish note-for-note drops every Tuesday.
The fourth co-founder, Jules Hartwell, runs transcription operations from Toronto and stays off the stage — by personal preference.
VERIFIED STUDENT REVIEWS
4.92/5 across 6,300+ verified reviews.
Trustpilot and Google, pulled weekly. We do not delete the bad ones — there are not many, but they live on the wall too.
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"I had a conservatory degree and a closet full of jazz gigs. Six months in, I played my first paid piano-rock show and got asked back for the next one. I had never been asked back for anything."
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"The loop engine alone is worth the membership. I dropped the tempo to 60 BPM, isolated the bass stem, and finally heard where the piano sits in the arrangement. That one trick rebuilt my entire band."
★★★★★
"Got into a conservatory keyboard program on the strength of the PianoRock audition prep. The coach walked me through the rig talk the same way she walks the touring students through it."
★★★★★
"I used to bring a Rhodes to a rock gig and feel like a fraud. Now I bring a Nord and the patch sheet from the library and I am the loudest thing on stage. Different career."
Average member reports a 4.1x increase in gig-ready repertoire within 6 months · internal cohort, n = 1,204