It takes a lot more than wanting to be Billy Joel to become a piano player. You need passion, time, motivation and an excellent instructor (and, uh, a piano). But traditional piano lessons might not ...

I grew up in very musical household. From the kitchen, my mother (a voice teacher) would sing. From the music room, my sister would practice classical violin–Bach or Tchaikovsky or Vivaldi. From the ...

Randy Simon was born and raised in Los Angeles. Although he had piano lessons for a year as a child, and took classical piano lessons for a period while in graduate school, music took a back seat for ...