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Clair de Lune Piano Ladder
Clair de Lune Piano Ladder
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A digital learning series designed to help you master Debussy’s Clair de Lune, one clear, thoughtful step at a time.
This is not a rushed shortcut to play-throughs and mistakes. The Clair de Lune Piano Ladder breaks the piece down into 12 carefully sequenced 30-day parts, each building your musical understanding, technique, and confidence layer by layer.
Part 1 lays your foundation; no Clair de Lune excerpt yet, just the focused skills you’ll need before you touch a note of Debussy’s score. Each subsequent part will add a small section of the piece, with targeted support to help you play it beautifully and fully grasp the harmonic and technical details.
Recommended for Levels 3 and up.
🎶 What’s Included in Each Part:
- Detailed instructions on how to use the Piano Ladder
- A short, applicable music theory lesson
- Handpicked technical exercises to build your specific skills
- A piano etude that reinforces the part’s focus
- A bonus practice piece for added repertoire and skill integration
- A carefully chosen excerpt of Clair de Lune (starting with Part 2)
- A done-for-you practice plan that guides you day by day
🎯What You'll Gain:
- Deep technical security in Debussy’s lush textures
- Clear understanding of how the harmony, voicing, and pedal work together
- Confidence to play each section with expression and accuracy
- A steady, realistic pace for learning a milestone piece
- A step-by-step path that takes the guesswork out of “How do I get this into my fingers?”
💡 Why You’ll Love It:
- No overwhelm; just clear, manageable steps
- Perfect for adult learners and returning pianists
- Teaches you to play Clair de Lune well, not just fast
- Connects practical technique, theory, and artistry
- Makes learning feel calm, intentional, and inspiring
🏁 Recommended Starting Point:
It's recommended before you start Part 1 that you can play at Level 3 or above. This ensures you have the right foundation before learning any notes of the piece itself.
Each part also has additional recommended Ready-Made Repertoire Plans, in case you want extra preparation or support pieces as you go. You can find them for the parts that are out so far listed below.
Suggested Ready-Made Repertoire Plans for prepare for Part 1 - These practice plans include pieces that will give you extra practice playing music with multiple flats in the key signature:
Suggested Ready-Made Repertoire Plans for prepare for Part 2 - These plans include pieces that will give you extra practice playing arpeggiated textures:
Build the skills you need to play Clair de Lune beautifully, piece by piece.
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This is a very comprehensive approach to learning a piece of music that ordinarily would be beyond my skill set. I've started exploring the D flat Major scale music theory section and can understand now why it is such an important part of the process of learning the piece as something more than a bunch of notes strung together. Next, I'm pretty excited about diving into the Level 1 Practice Plan to start playing the included pieces and exercises!
Heidi, I can’t evaluate this product yet because I want to dater with Ladder 1. Right now my printer is out of ink and the soonest delivery is Sunday afternoon.
No problem! Take all the time you need, then whenever you're ready I'll be excited to hear how the Clair de Lune Piano Ladder goes for you! These reviews are always editable so you can also update as you work through the various parts.
I am ready to comment on this offering. It is simply amazing! I love the selected pieces and technical material that will eventually help me navigate the actual piece, Clair de lune, but Heidi's arrangement is lovely also. Heidi's words of wisdom about how to approach the piece are very helpful. The next part is on my radar.
There is a mistake in the Czerny transcription. I had to find it on YouTube to find the correct chord in measure 8. Other than that, I am enjoying working through it so far.
I'm so glad you're enjoying it, Eric! And sorry for the confusion with that mistake. I did catch it last week and sent out an email about it to everyone who had purchased so far, but perhaps you missed the email. It sounds like you've got it taken care of, but for future reference if you were to re-download it, the mistake would be corrected. Also you can always feel free to email me if there's something that doesn't seem quite right and I'm happy to fix it (and appreciative as I always want to correct any mistakes!). No need to chase down the answers on Youtube. Thanks for your review!
Heidi has outdone herself with the Clair de Lune Piano Ladder! Her method of learning any piece is brilliant! But this is beyond that. It is so well thought out and I am loving the challenge of methodically and slowly learning this beautiful composition! Thank you, Heidi!
PS Heidi is also a wonderful, patient, knowledgeable piano teacher and I feel so fortunate to be one of her students.