Many! However, it boils down to two major approaches: traditional and non-traditional. For simplicity’s sake, any method that requires you to learn to read music first (in order to play) falls under the traditional approach. Any method that does not require you to learn to read first, but rather lets you play immediately, is considered non-traditional. Simply Music takes a non-traditional approach. The Simply Music Piano Method is the world’s largest playing based method. This is our preferred, and only, method to teach at Playing For Keeps Piano Studio.