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ABOUT ‘PIANO WITH KENT’

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Welcome to Piano With Kent!
This website, pianowithkent.com, is a video and text-based free educational site. We have no 3rd-party ads. Our site offers piano, keyboard and music theory lessons, articles, courses, course-based sheet music, and more. A lifelong musician and teacher, Kent’s video and text-based online lessons and online courses have been viewed and purchased worldwide since about 2010.
NOW OFFERING FREE VIDEO COURSES WITH ME (ON THIS SITE)
UP AHEAD FROM KENT: Hey! I’m hard at work these days on a new PDF book of Blues Piano Sheet Music, a collection of 144 Blues Piano Solos & Ideas–every one of which is based directly on my free video class called ‘A Study in Blues Piano – Focusing on Twelve Licks.’ This is standard sheet music, plus chord symbols, PLUS: Each note is labeled with its musical letter-name (such as G, F#, Eb, C.) The format will be PDF. Watch this space please!
I sell exclusive custom sheet music HERE
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. Our sheet music, with letter-notes included, is especially popular with people who have prior experience reading piano music, but who now require a detailed refresher — with this music serving as a complete, on-sheet reference — making things more readable, as regards which key should be played, for each printed note.
ABOUT KENT – FOUNDER OF PIANO WITH KENT
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.