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Dear fellow teachers, parentals, and students,
I would like to share my views with all of you and hope this wouldn't offend anyone, I'd like to apologise if somehow you believe I have done so.
General facts with learning any musical instruments:
1. 5% talent 95% practice
2. Both teachers and parentals have equal responsibilities with bringing up your kid. Teachers will put you in the right direction and parentals will have to practice with them, make sure they are doing the right thing. Practice makes all the difference. 10,000 hour rule (quoted by Malcom Gladwell's tipping point) the more they practice the faster they can move on, more oppotunities they get.
3. Get exposed! Go to concerts, enter competitions, watch other people play online on youtube, take on every opportunity to perform.
Advice for parentals:
Ask yourself why you want your child to learn music... More qualification such as grade 8, ATCL LTCL FTCL which is bonus points for university entry? To see if they have the material to be a concert pianest like lang lang? Develop a hobby so they can play for fun, enjoy and understand music, hear a pop tune and be able to play it?
I think the most important thing with learning anything is they have to ENJOY. Teachers play an important role to make your child love or hate it. It's very true about the importance of a first teacher. You don't want your kid to be demoralised.
A teacher with amazing qualification doesn't mean they are a good teacher. A teacher who only has grade 8 doesn't mean they are not good enough. Price certainly doen't matter! General speaking Best teachers/coaches charge by hour.
If the teacher is good, they can make 3 years old concentrate for an hour. Traditional teaching methods might not work too well on kids nowadays. Teachers should use the right technology to make the lesson more interesting and fun for kids such as programs and powerpoint.
Kids need to be motivated to practice. Does the teacher put enough effort to do that?
Finger technique, posture, theory, ear traning have to be taught at the same time. Most teachers focus 90% time on playing the notes... A lot of piano players, even teachers who have diplomas are very poor with sight reading and can't play by ear. (means they can't play a pop song when they listen to it) They why they just focus on exam pieces.
Don't take exams every year, waste of time and money. Money making scheme... Play lots of bach if you are a beginner, then some Sonatas and you will be around grade 5.
授人與魚不如授人與漁
Finding a teacher that suits your child is hard, don't give up! If you think they have chemistry then simply try out another teacher.
Remember its all about the practice.
GOOD LUCK
Josh
English speaking piano coach
Student of Eleanor Wong, Murray Perahia, Yonty Solomon, Noriko Ogawa.
Chetham's School of Music
RSAMD
Trinity College of Music |
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發表於 10-6-2 10:15
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