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. Get step-by-step instructions about a learning methodology for music that made it inevitable countless alumni would step into top music conservatories someday. Vol. 1 is tightly scoped to how this methodology was taught at The French School of Music in Plainfield, NJ, USA such that a three-year-old could begin making music from day one. Go through the material along with videos so you can actually apply this.

Vol. 2: free PDF and paperback on Amazon. Uses Vol. 1 as a launchpad to take a deeper dive into topics that would dilute Vol. 1’s focus on core concepts. Covers enough information so that students can cover the 171 exercises in Dannhauser Book 1 using the piano accompaniment (link below), from beginner to mastery of the foundational elements.

Vol. 3: PDF and paperback on Amazon TBD. Explains the brick and mortar French School teaching environment and setup. We pass along what we can about foundational principles driving how the school operated. Work currently in progress.

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 in paperback and hardcopy form 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. 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.

L’Art de Développer Le Sentiment Musical Chez l’Enfant (The Art of Developing Musical Sentiment in Children) - referenced in L’Étude du Piano and highlighted by Mlle. Combe.

Conseils d’Un Professeur (Advice from a teacher) - referenced in L’Étude du Piano, OCR, translated, no clean up.