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Ozie Cargile

Composer/Pianist

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Ozie Cargile Courses

Quicklessons Piano Course - Learn to Play Piano by Ear!

$10.99

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Most Recent Review

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and got a lot out of it. I didn't realize how much I would when I first got it! A few bits of advice for prospective students: 1. Get the PDF or the printed book. Seriously, no matter how much you paid for this course, you *need* the book. I bought the course and started it, but quickly stopped, because there was just so much to take in visually. I couldn't hack it. Fast forward a number of months, I got a FB advertisement for a piano course with a book. It seemed interesting and I thought "hey, I recognize that name!" I checked and it was indeed who I thought it was. In the ad he talked about the book. I went back to the course and found that several students mentioned the book in the forum. So I went to look for the book on Amazon and ended up getting the book on PDF, as it follows the course straight down the line. I think it's fabulous! Very happy with it. 2. Follow Ozie's advice on learning, but don't try to master everything before you go through the entire course. Watch it through once fully while you're working on the modules. It'll help motivate you and have some context for the exercises. The little interludes that he does at the start of the modules are great and something that you can go to work on! This an area where the book will come in so handy, as so many of them are included with keyboard diagrams. It's invaluable to picking it up. Bottom line: This is a well structured course and has a lot of benefit for those willing to do the work. It's definitely helped me and served as a source of inspiration. Thank you, Ozie! :-D
- Review by Kenneth Gonzalez on Quicklessons Piano Course - Learn to Play Piano by Ear!

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Instructor Bio

Ozie Cargile is a Detroit-born composer, pianist, and educator who taught himself piano as a child before going on to study composition and piano at the University of Michigan School of Music. As both a composer and performer, he brings a musician’s understanding of harmony, melody, orchestration, and expression directly into his teaching.

His work as a composer has been performed by respected ensembles including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and his music for film and media has been featured in acclaimed collaborative projects. Alongside his work as a composer, Ozie has spent more than 15 years teaching piano, composition, and musicianship to students of all ages, with a special gift for helping beginners and intermediate players understand how music actually works.

He created the QuickLessons Piano Course to help students move beyond memorizing isolated notes and begin playing with real confidence, freedom, and musical understanding. His teaching emphasizes chords, scales, progressions, ear training, songwriting, and the practical skills needed to improvise, accompany, and create original music at the piano.

Thousands of students around the world have used the QuickLessons method to strengthen their foundation and develop a more natural relationship with the keyboard. Whether teaching piano or composing for the concert hall, Ozie’s goal is the same: to help people experience music more deeply, intelligently, and creatively.