RON DROTOS
About Ron
Hi! I’m Ron Drotos and I’ve created KeyboardImprov.com to help you experience the joy that comes with fluent improvisation; when the music starts to literally ‘pour’ out of you. Ever since I started playing professionally, people would come up to me say “Wow! I wish I could play like that!” I realized that although they had taken piano lessons for many years, no one had shown them how to internalize music as a language, so they could improvise with ease in any style. So I started to develop methods of teaching that would combine technique, theory, and various musical styles in a fun, “holistic” way. The Jazz Piano University curriculums are specially designed to help you become a fluent improviser while learning jazz repertoire, theory, and pianistic techniques like walking bass lines and chord voicings at the same time.
After 20 years of helping students from ages 5-85 learn to improvise fluently, I decided to go “online” with KeyboardImprov.com in 2012. My goal is to give you the personal attention of in-person piano lessons along with an extensive, step-by-step video course. I’m pleased to say that I have now students all over the wold, in countries such as England, the Czech Republic, Ireland, South Africa, Greece, China, the Philippines, and the United States.