Monthly Live Lessons
From inside your own playing, you can’t see the cause underneath the mistake you keep repeating — self-monitoring is structurally unreliable.
Someone is finally watching the cause, and naming it.
For serious piano learners
Build piano technique that finally turns hours of practice into music.
If your playing feels stuck between knowing the notes and making music, get daily access to my guidance inside the Academy and learn what actually needs to change.
PRO MEMBER INCLUDES
- Courses
- Monthly live lessons
- Community feedback
- Resource library
Try it without committing — refundable for the first two weeks
Why the hours haven't been compounding
Most plateaus are an instruction gap, not a talent gap.
You've put the hours in. You've cared about the work. And the music has stayed almost — but not quite — where it was. From the inside, that looks like a discipline problem. From the outside, it almost never is.
Before
- Practice that feels like effort without traction
- Tension that returns the moment you reach for speed
- Sound that lands on the keys
- Repertoire that stays one level out of reach
After
- Practice that feels like work, in the direction of something
- The wrist that follows the arm instead of bracing against it
- Sound that travels into the keys
- Repertoire that starts behaving the way you always heard it should
“It is not about practising harder. It is about knowing what needs to change.”
— Lars Nelissen
What students say
From inside the Academy.
★★★★★
“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.”
Martin Reuvers
Pro Member, 1 year
★★★★★
“Piano Fantasy gave me a deeper understanding on piano technique. It boosted my playing a lot. The community is also very nice and helpful. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to be a great pianist.”
Giovanni van Grootveld
Pro Member
★★★★★
“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.”
Edward Lopata
Pro Member
Lesson previews
You’ve heard this kind of promise before. So watch the lessons instead.
Articulation
"My staccato sounds heavy — it never gets really short"
Pizzicato from the fingers — not from the arm.
Live coaching
LIVE coaching — "My fourth finger disappears when I speed it up"
Concentrated fingers, not spaghetti fingers — finger independence and the anchor finger.
Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale as a full-hand coordination exercise
Full module from the Super Fingers course.
Chord preparation
"I always land the chord wrong — the top voice disappears"
The preparation window: arm weight before finger contact.
Scales
"My scales sound uneven — some notes louder, some softer"
C major as a listening exercise — matching the weight across each finger.
Etude work
How to work an etude without turning it into mindless repetition
Burgmüller Op. 100 No. 2 — isolating the hand position shift.
Live coaching
LIVE coaching — "The left hand pedal point keeps crashing into the melody"
Bach Prelude in C: separating hand weight and finger independence.
Hand independence
"I can play each hand alone — but together it falls apart"
The coordination sequence: slow subdivision before full tempo.
Community
Community feedback thread: a member shares a recording of Chopin Op. 28 No. 6
What the group hears — and what Lars adds.
What's inside
Four ways the work compounds.
Courses
On your own it’s a pile of tips from everywhere, and none of them are in an order — so the hours never stack into anything.
A path instead of a pile — so the practice you’re already doing starts to add up.
Resource Library
You hit one specific wall, searched for the answer, and got ten contradictory ones — so you stayed stuck on it.
When you hit a wall, there’s one authoritative answer waiting — not ten that cancel each other out.
Community
No one around you understands why you’d spend a week on one motion, so the work quietly stops mattering — and then it quietly stops.
A small room of people who get why one motion is worth a week — enough to keep you in the work.
“Self-study doesn’t fail because one piece is missing. It fails because the loop never closes.”
— Lars Nelissen
The teaching lineage
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
About the teacher
I started teaching seriously around twenty-five years ago, after seven years at the conservatory in Maastricht studying with Avi Schönfeld. The masterclasses I took during those years — French tradition, Russian tradition — shaped how I think about arm, wrist, and sound. Most of what I teach now I learned by watching what worked and what didn’t, with a lot of different students, over a long time.
Pro Member is the version of that teaching I can put in front of serious piano learners who don’t live anywhere near me. It is not a shortcut, and it is not just a system. It is what 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
Technical territories
The territories of real technique
Sound comes first. Technique serves the music — not the other way around.
Finger preparation
Arm movements
Practicing strategy
How technique serves expression
Musical interpretation
Performance skill
Who this is for
Pro Member is a specific offer for a specific kind of learner.
Pro Member is for…
- Piano learners who treat the instrument as something that matters — and want their practice to compound, not just fill time.
- Players aspiring to real repertoire — Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, Mozart, the standard concert ground.
- People who can already read music and navigate the keyboard, and want to understand what the technique is actually doing.
- Learners who practice consistently and want the practice to stop feeling like effort without traction.
Pro Member is not for…
- Complete beginners who haven't yet learned to read music or play simple pieces end-to-end.
- Players looking for quick fixes or entertainment content rather than structured, substantive instruction.
- Anyone who wants passive consumption — the community and live lessons require actual participation.
In their own words
What serious pianists found.
★★★★★
“Amazing teacher. Due to Lars’ method of arm and finger technique, my piano play has improved a lot. He goes into great depth and that gives me a lot of joy in playing the piano.”
Yvette Vosbeek
Adult Student
★★★★★
“I have learned with Lars how to solve technical problems. I also became better at my rhythm and improvisation. Lars is really an excellent pianist and also a very good teacher.”
Jelle Komhöff
Music Therapist
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€32.90 / month
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- Daily community access
- Full resource library
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In their own words
Pianists who stopped practicing in the dark.
Have questions?
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 15-day guarantee is there if the early signal isn't there for you.
Probably 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.
Then this isn't the right fit yet. Pro Member assumes you can read music, find your way around the keyboard, and play simple pieces end-to-end. If you're earlier than that, build the basics first somewhere else and come back when you're working on real repertoire.
Yes, anytime, from your account. Monthly and quarterly billing stops at the end of the current period. Yearly billing is non-refundable after the 15-day initial-purchase window, but you keep access for the rest of the year you've paid for.
If you're not satisfied within 15 days of your initial purchase, contact us and we'll refund you in full. No questions asked. After 15 days 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?
15 days. If you’re not satisfied, we’ll refund you.
The decision is yours.
The walk is still yours — but you don't have to figure out the path alone.
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