Build piano technique that finally turns hours of practice into music.
For pianists who practise consistently and still hear the same ceiling.
- Stop guessing what to fix — one answer from me instead of ten conflicting videos
- Lose the tension that comes back every time you play faster
- Play the pieces that always stayed one level out of reach
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More hours of the same practice do not add up to progress.
Practice repeats whatever movement is already there. If nobody ever showed you a better movement, more hours could not fix it.
Before
- You practise, but you don't know if it's working.
- Stiff fingers, stiff wrists. Your fingers don't do what you want.
- All your notes sound the same. You can't play soft.
After
- You know what to fix, and how.
- You know how to use your arm and wrist, and your fingers do what you ask.
- You can shape a phrase — the melody sings over the accompaniment.
Change the movement, and the sound changes with it.
Don't take my word. Watch the lessons.
How to work an etude without turning it into mindless repetition
"My staccato sounds heavy — it never gets really short"
LIVE coaching — "My fourth finger disappears when I speed it up"
The chromatic scale as a full-hand coordination exercise
"I always land the chord wrong — the top voice disappears"
"My scales sound uneven — some notes louder, some softer"
LIVE coaching — "The left hand pedal point keeps crashing into the melody"
"I can play each hand alone — but together it falls apart"
Lars walks through the Pro Member area, screen by screen
What members say
Everything suddenly seems simpler.
I totally recommend his course for those who don't want to stuck like me and want to advance from the beginning the right way.
For the past 2 years I have learned to play through YouTube. At some point my progress stopped. I realized that if I need to advance further I will need a step by step course from the beginning. I came across Lars on YouTube and was very impressed by his simple explanations and clear English. Thanks to him I corrected many bad habits. I was able to play quickly and accurately. Everything suddenly seems simpler. I also learned that not everything can be learned from YouTube 😀.
I’m over 40 years old and started learning to play the piano with a well-known piano learning app. I couldn't get any further and found Lars. With Lars is when I really started learning to play the piano! Lars is a true professional in both music theory and performance. With his calm attitude and patience, he knows how to help me very well to play the piano much better. And in a fun way!
So I absolutely recommend Lars as your piano teacher!
I have learned with Lars how to solve technical problems by creating my own exercises. I also became better at my rhythm and improvisation. Lars is really an excellent pianist and also a very good teacher.
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What's inside
A path instead of a pile.
Self-study doesn't fail because one piece is missing. It fails because the loop never closes. This is how Pro Member closes it.
Know where you are
No more guessing what level you're at or what to play next.
12-stage path
Find your stage, and see your next piece and your next step.
My Journey
Your overview: what you're working on, your strengths, where you can grow, and what comes next.
Learn the right thing
Technique that changes your sound, step by step.
Flagship course
Super Fingers Essentials
My technique course. 7 modules, 91 video lessons.
Finger preparation, arm movement, practising strategy, expression, interpretation and performance — worked on together, not one after the other.
The tight passage frees up, and the tone sings instead of lands.
Super Fingers Progressive
The next step, going deeper. Coming soon.
Repertoire lessons
Particular pieces, taught in depth.
Member downloads
Scores, exercises and PDFs.
Every course is included — and so is every future course, at no extra cost.
Practise with a plan
So your hours finally add up.
Practice journal
Log a session, link it to a piece, add your notes.
My Repertoire
Every piece you play, with its sessions, notes and lessons in one place.
Practice planning
Plan tomorrow, or the next few months. You get a reminder on the days you plan to practise.
Like keeping track? Use it. Don't? Skip it — the courses and lessons work without it.
Get answers
You're not stuck on your own.
Monthly live lessons
Live with me every month. Can't make it? Watch the replay.
Community
Post a question or a recording, and I answer.
Ask Clara
My AI assistant — and she never gets tired of questions. Ask as many as you like. She knows my teaching and sends you straight to the lesson that answers it.
Try the Ask button on this page — Clara is the full version, inside the membership.
All of this, for less than one private lesson with me a month.
Who this is for
If you've read this far, you're probably in the right place.
For…
- Piano learners who take the instrument seriously and want their practice to add up, not just fill time.
- Players working on music they love — Für Elise, a Chopin piece, Rachmaninoff, whatever it is — who want it to sound the way they hear it in their head.
- People who can already read a score and find their way around the keyboard, and want to understand what their technique is actually doing.
Not for…
- Complete starters who haven't yet learned to read a score or play a simple piece end to end.
- Players looking for quick fixes or entertainment rather than real instruction.
- Anyone hoping to improve without practising — I show you how, but the practice is yours.
The teaching comes from somewhere.
Arthur Rubinstein
1887–1982
Concert pianist
considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century
Avi Schönfeld
Direct student of Rubinstein
“Lars has real musicality, combined with outstanding artistic qualities — in his playing and in the way he works with students.”
YOUR TEACHER
Lars Nelissen
Direct student of Schönfeld · Founder, Piano Fantasy
Seven years at the conservatory in Maastricht with Avi Schönfeld, then twenty-five years of teaching. The masterclasses from those years — French tradition, Russian traditionFrench and Russian traditions — shaped how I think about arm, wrist, and sound. The rest I learned from students: watching what worked, and what didn’t.
Pro Member is that teaching, for people who don’t live anywhere near me. Not a shortcut, and not just a system. It is whatis the teaching I would say in a lesson if you were sitting at the piano next to me — laid out so you can come back to any part of it whenever the music asks.
— Lars Nelissen
PIANIST · TEACHER · FOUNDER, PIANO FANTASY
Choose your plan
Join Pro Member.
Both plans include everything.
- All courses — including future ones
- The 12-stage path and My Journey — know where you are and what to practise next
- Monthly live lessons with me, plus replays
- Resource library — scores, exercises and PDFs
- Ask Clara — the AI assistant for your practice questions
- Private community — feedback from me
Private lessons every two weeks come to around $2,000 a year. Annual works out to $41.58 a month — less than half of one lesson. Already have a teacher? Pro Member works alongside your lessons.
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In their own words
Pianists who stopped practising in the dark.
I'm a pro member of Pianofantasy for 1 year now. I already learned a lot from Lars' Super Fingers course, the live lessons and feedback that I and other students get. It's very inspiring and motivating and it makes me want to improve my piano skills continuously. I'm very happy that I came across Lars' website and YouTube channel. It's exactly what I needed to pick up pianoplaying again after many years and it provides me a lot of joy.
Even after a short time working on Modules 1 & 2, found a marked improvement in surety of finger control. Combining Lars demonstrations and the PDF's are working well for me.
Becoming a member of Lars Piano Fantasy Academy has proven beneficial for me as an aspiring pianist. Learning with Lars' finger strength exercises has been very beneficial. I've noted in the pieces I play, that my 4th & 5th finger on notes have shown great improvement!
Thank you!
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Frequently asked questions.
Forty-five minutes a day, five or six days a week, is enough to make real progress with the material inside Pro Member. More is fine; less works if it's consistent. The work compounds with structure, not with volume.
Within the first weeks, many students notice steadier movement and clearer practice. Over the months that follow, repertoire that used to feel out of reach starts behaving. Eventually you stop thinking about the technique and start hearing the music. There is no fixed timeline — some things take weeks, others months. The 30-day guarantee is there if the early signal isn't there for you.
Yes. Pro Member is built for serious piano learners working on real repertoire — Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, the standard concert ground. The mechanism layer it teaches is the same whether you're working on a Mozart sonata or a Liszt étude; the application changes, the principles don't. Super Fingers is also for advanced players who want to change and improve the way they play the piano — not just beginners. And Lars is active inside the platform, answering questions from students at any level.
Yes — beginners join Pro Member and do well. The one real condition: you should already be a little familiar with reading notes, enough to work through a simple piece from a score on your own. A rough check: if you're partway through a method book like Faber Piano Adventures, Level 1, you're likely ready — if you're still not sure, check your reading level here. Reading music from scratch is the one thing the courses don't teach — a method book, a teacher, or an app is the right next step first, and that's exactly where most players start before this one.
Yes, anytime, from your account. Cancel whenever you like and you keep access to the end of the period you've already paid for, on Annual and Monthly.
If you're not satisfied within 30 days of your initial Annual purchase — or 15 days on Monthly — contact us and we'll refund you in full. After that window the guarantee expires, but you keep full access for the rest of the period you've paid for.
Yes. The community runs every day — Lars posts, responds, and gives feedback regularly. Members post recordings and get specific, named feedback on technique. It's not a social media scroll; it's a focused practice community.
Video lessons — close-up camera on hands, multiple angles where the movement requires it. Structured modules, each building on the last. Written annotations and scores where relevant. Designed to be paused, replayed, and revisited during practice.
Still unsure?
The decision is yours.
The walk is still yours — but you don't have to figure out the path alone.
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