Learning piano should be a joyful journey filled with both accomplishment and fun! Piano lessons can be adapted to include anyone who wants to learn. Anyone can play piano.
A Well-Rounded Approach:
Piano instruction includes five key areas: hands, eyes, ears, play, and work. Each element is interconnected, and I strive to incorporate all five into every lesson.
Piano Ears
Developing a strong musical ear is key to truly appreciating music. Students will learn to hear and feel rhythms, identify pitches, and explore the beautiful sounds the piano can create.
The music you play should inspire you! Piano lessons will expose students to a variety of genres. Whether it’s classical favorites, hymns, or movie soundtracks, we can find music you love to play.
Piano Eyes:
Reading music is essential, but it shouldn’t hinder enjoyment. Note reading is taught through landmark notes followed by teaching intervals, allowing them to progress at their own pace.
Reading regular language is hard. Reading music is also hard. Music is its own language, requiring time, effort, and patience. Repetition can be boring, but not if you have an abundance of activities to keep it interesting.
Piano Hands
Piano hands reflect the work that goes into proper posture and technique, which is crucial for comfortable and expressive playing.
The motor skills required to play piano can often be taught off the bench. Lessons include activities like Playdough, crafts, and fingerplays to trick little fingers into moving the way we want them to.
Piano Play
Learning should happen through play, even with adults.
Complicated abstract concepts can be represented in a hands-on, concrete manner, and concepts can be reinforced through board games of every kind. Read about how early intervention influences my teaching here.
Creativity is at the heart of music! Students will have the opportunity to compose, improvise, and explore playing from lead sheets.
WORK:
“The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.”
Jim Henson
Piano lessons should be fun with hard work mixed in. The hard work won’t seem like hard work because you are motivated by the fun.
Work habits that students learn in piano lessons translate into life skills, but only if we are intentional about how to teach them.
Ready to start?
Let’s embark on this exciting journey together! Contact me today to learn more about piano lessons and how I can help you or your child achieve your musical goals.
By the way… I plan to write more about this in the future, but for now let me say my new preferred go-to piano method book is Piano Pronto. Here is an amazon link https://amzn.to/4k3MA3s
Another favorite of mine is the Scales and Chords Book 1 by Faber. https://amzn.to/413gE6w
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