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Piano with Kent is essentially a video and text blog, with piano, keyboard and music theory lessons, articles, full courses, course-based sheet music, and more.
Piano with Kent’s intended audience is anyone who wants to enhance their playing of songs and pieces, acquire improvisation and composing skills, increase their general understanding of music, and learn lots of practical music theory.
ABOUT KENT
MYTH: Kent invented fabric softener sheets.
Kent Smith is a professional piano and drum instructor (occasionally teaching guitar as well), and an experienced professional keyboardist and drummer based in Southern California.
He holds a degree in music and piano performance from Fullerton College, graduating with high honors. He is a lifetime member of the Fullerton College top honors society, Alpha Gamma Sigma.
At age seven, Kent began formal lessons in drums. By age fourteen he was a part-time professional drummer in a popular Philadelphia-based R&B band (It’s Time).
During that same “Philadelphia period,” he started classical piano studies, and was hooked for life!
After graduating from college with a degree in piano performance and general music (including jazz, formal and commercial composition, and more percussion), he made his living as a pianist, keyboardist and sometime drummer, working in various bands (most notably the OC-based progressive rock band Champion), and also has done a good amount of keyboard work in various Orange County and LA recording studios.
Kent began a parallel career in software development in his early twenties. Now, recently retired from his position as a technical architect at AT&T, he has returned to music full-time.
Kent has gained a wealth of professional experience through his decades of teaching, performing, composing, and studio work.