Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
I find it frustrating at times when I meet people that want to learn to play the piano and will find all sorts of excuses. I’m not talking about those people that have never thought about it before meeting me and finding out that I am a piano teacher. I’m talking about the people that … Read more
Learning to play the piano should be an activity that is taken up because a person would like to play the piano. Learning to play the piano as an adult really shouldn’t have any other reason. Playing the piano has physical benefits, the number one being maintaining or even building fine motor skills. This is … Read more
There seems to be an ideal age for learning to play a musical instrument. For the violin, my understanding is about the age of 5, the guitar is when the child is physically big enough to be able to put there right arm over the body of the guitar and be able to reach the … Read more
I haven’t thought that I am overly opinionated, in fact I pride myself on being a fair and reasonable person, but I must confess that every time I see an ad on Facebook for a ‘Learn to Play the Piano’ course, I get really irritated and automatically assume that it is probably not that good. … Read more
Learning to play a piece of piano music is hard to pin down because there are just so many factors that have an influence on how long it takes a person to learn to play a piece of music. How frequently someone practices and how long a person has been playing for are two of … Read more
I recently got a comment from someone who was refuting my claim that anyone could learn to read music. He mentioned that despite something like 8 teachers over 10 years couldn’t get him learning to read music. First of all, that is some serious dedication and effort and clearly the issue was not an incompetent … Read more
From time to time, I meet someone who will tell me that they the piano by ear and because they claim to not be able to read music, they don’t consider themselves to be real piano players. I’ve even experienced people that have almost seen to be apologetic about playing the piano by ear, which … Read more