Hi, I'm Mr. Zach, and I LOVE teaching music!

I'm the author of the Kids Piano books series and courses. Since 2018, after I was awarded a patent for a new music notation I invented, I've designed online courses for students in schools around the country and teach live online classes to students all around the world! Since 2002, I've taught over SIXTY THOUSAND lessons!

I believe learning music should be as fun for kids as any sports team or dance class... That's why I design my program to be more like a social group experience than private lessons. Long story short, most kids prefer learning together with other kids!

I believe the #1 reason kids give up on music is because reading notes is HARD! Staffs, clefs, time signatures, key signatures, rests, rhythms, and accidentals are efficient for composers, but were NOT intended for kids, who have much smaller limits on how much information they can process at once. That’s why beginner music usually has to be so simple, plain, and boring, and why it takes so many years for kids to play the songs they dream of.

Kids want FUN! They want to play songs from their favorite shows and movies, like Frozen, Moana, and Star Wars... or video games like Minecraft and Super Mario, or even their favorite classical pieces like Moonlight Sonata and Fur Elise! And the youngest beginners just want to be able to play songs like Hot Cross Buns! 

That's why when kids can actually learn the music they love, and it’s taught interactively with other kids, and they feel confident that they'll succeed because it's easy and fun, it completely transforms their experience! Music class becomes something they look forward to, and playing music for friends and family becomes something they become proud of.

See how mother Shweta Padaki describes her 5-year-old's experience skyrocketing to intermediate piano with Exact-Notes.