My lessons are tailored to what the student needs; are they beginners? Intermediate? advanced?
All these will be taken into account but most importantly is assessing what the goal of the student is, and what they really want to learn and improve in their lessons. it's always the "why" of taking piano lessons. While I will lead the flow and progress of the student, the goal and interests of the s...
My lessons are tailored to what the student needs; are they beginners? Intermediate? advanced?
All these will be taken into account but most importantly is assessing what the goal of the student is, and what they really want to learn and improve in their lessons. it's always the "why" of taking piano lessons. While I will lead the flow and progress of the student, the goal and interests of the student will matter a lot to me so that the student is always motivated to play and endure the lessons.
My philosophy in teaching is independence. My goal as a teacher is to make my students independent learners themselves to the point where they don't need me anymore. Reading is very important to me, and all the basic foundation of piano playing. So a fair amount of time will be spent of reading the pieces before actually playing them - this allows me to really know what the student know or doesn't know. This also gives me an idea on how fast or slow the reading ability of the student. An appropriate method book will be assigned to a student depending on their level of playing while working towards the goals of the student. It could be a specific repertoire or some others.
I also give a lot of emphasis to learning everything that's in the score. So that means music theory, analysis, form, and all other aspects of basic musicianship will always be covered no matter what. I truly believe that my students should never miss a single detail of the score and that they should always know what every dot, curve, or text means in the score so that by the time they're ready to go, they're fully equipped as independent learners themselves.