How Do I Become An Unstoppable Musician?
A great way back to your music! (Amazon review)
“I have had the bad habit of not following through with my music, but this book got me back on track. It's an easy way to learn the basics that make progress far easier and more fun. My kids are grown, but if I still had kids in the house, I would reintroduce them to music through this wonderful book!” — D.B.
Vol. 1: free PDF and paperback on Amazon (2005). Learn how even three-year-old beginner music students could start making music on day one. Many of these beginners later graduated from high school and stepped into top conservatories, or used the foundational skills learned to carve other paths in life. There are accompanying videos so readers can apply concepts learned.
Vol. 2: free PDF and paperback on Amazon (2006). Use Vol. 1 as a launchpad to delve further into topics that would dilute Vol. 1’s focus on core concepts. Learn enough to cover 171 exercises in Dannhauser Book 1 with a pianist or music teacher using the piano accompaniment, from beginner to mastery of foundational elements.
Vol. 3: DRAFT PDF and paperback on Amazon TBD. Step into music school history and immerse in a teaching environment that helped many music students become independent, lifelong learners.
Note: The PDFs for Vol. 1 - 3 are working editions until they can be officially labeled First Synchronized Edition. The page-specific footnotes, Glossaries and Indexes are now placeholders that will not be updated until the content is stable.
There are also plans for a Vol. 4 and Vol. 5. This project has officially expanded beyond my control.
Dannhaüser Solfege Book I Piano Accompaniment
Original Material
The Unstoppable Musician (Chinese translation) - this was done by Cathie, an astronomer in Shanghai, using ChatGPT. Thank you!!!
Solfege Teaching Guide - the original available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. This will be discontinued when all three Unstoppable volumes are published on Amazon and officially labeled First Edition.
Unstoppable Musicianship Book 1 Bootcamp - covering Dannhaüser Book 1, taught the way Mlle. Combe taught solfege at French School (plus some critical additions from exposure at Juilliard). Part of the reason I created this was because I wasn’t good enough to both play the piano accompaniment and correct/reinforce student singers at the same time. By the time we ended our run as the final generation of French School teachers, we were well over our skis and making more mistakes than our students. The bootcamp would allow teachers to hit a play button for the piano accompaniment audio, then help their students in real-time (for example, reinforcing melody notes when students are off-key).
Part 1 covers exercises 1 - 100
Part 2 covers exercises 101 - 171
March 18, 2026 was the five-year anniversary for the bootcamp. There is a coupon UM5YEARANNIV for the bootcamp, 90% off Part 1, unlimited number of uses so feel free to tell people. Good for the remainder of 2026.
Origin Story
L’Étude du Piano (The Study of Piano) — Mlle. Yvonne Combe had a very wrecked copy of this book, with many areas marked in pencil. This is a work in progress and contains both the original French text and English translation (using an online translator), as well as the areas she highlighted. This is the origin story for my dad’s book Fundamentals of Piano Practice.
L’Étude du Piano (Chinese translation) — also done by Cathie using ChatGPT, of the portions highlighted by Mlle. Combe..