This is my testimony for tonebase, and it won't be too long, because I haven't been using tonebase very long — but I have to say so far I am really pleased.

I am a returning piano player. I played piano pretty regularly up to the age of 25, and my mother was a pianist. I knew how to read music before I read English. I started from the lessons at the age of eight, and continued formal lessons until I was 16, at which stage I was probably from what I can figure out at a(n) early advanced level maybe you’d say. And I continued playing; I read my mom's music library, pretty much played whatever I wanted.

When I was 25, for a period of time I no longer had access to a piano. When I was 35 I bought a piano and started working again. But then life got in the way and I didn't play so much, and now at retirement I’m back playing. I don't learn things as quickly anymore, and my technique has really suffered, and my strategy at the moment is to pull way back in terms of level and to work my way through more beginner-types of exercises in pieces and with an occasional dip into more advanced repertoire to keep me happy.

I've been watching mainly videos on technique because that's the area I'm really concentrating on, and I found that I am very, very pleased. I am generally not so good at watching videos, and my attention tends to wander — and the way that it's been structured in tonebase is fantastic for me at least. It delivers each segment in a small chunk. There's written material that goes along with it that I can follow along with. And I can do as many little chunks as I want at a time. It keeps track of where I've been and what I've done.

And of course there's nothing to say about the lecturers. I've been watching videos from Penelope Roskell who is amazing, and I'm really pleased!

And that's about it! And if I rambled a bit feel free to edit to the tonebase team, and that's my testimonial.