Piano Lessons - Why Traditional Lessons Often Don't Work

Piano Lessons - Why Traditional Lessons Often Don't Work

One of the things I find it's really important for prospective new students who are considering taking music lessons to understand is all the things you "should" know about music lessons that no one has ever told you. I have a series of twenty videos on my web site of Frequently Asked Questions and "Things You Should Know About Piano Lessons" so you are informed before signing up for lessons.

One of the things you really should know is that traditional music lessons are one of the slowest and least effective ways to learn to play an instrument. I know... "How could I say such a thing?" Well, it's because as a kid player I took nine years of lessons before getting into collegiate music school. When I got to college, I took four and a half years of lessons with my college piano teacher.

What I can tell you from that experience is the way that most kids are taught to play an instrument is extremely inefficient, doesn't do anything to take advantage of how brains actually work and are often only being taught that way because that's how the teacher was originally taught in their childhood.

In the fifteen years that I've been teaching I've taught over one thousand students, I'm a professional musician and I perform with other professionals, so I have lots of experience at see what works in lessons. I'm also a neuroscientist, so I'm really clear on what works with a brain and how a human body learns to play an instrument. The way I taylor my lessons is by only working with what the brain does effectively. Almost no other music teachers do it that way, but that's what works. I have an advantage here in that I'm a neuroscientist and most music teacher's aren't.

What I found in fifteen years of teaching is that most kid lessons, like after-school lessons or school band, are not geared at all to be effective or efficient. I don't teach that way specifically because I repeatedly observe other teachers doing ineffective things merely because they were taught that way and that's the only way they know how to do it. It doesn't mean anyone is effectively learning from those methods. It just means that's the way the teacher knows how to teach it. It certainly doesn't mean that it works!

What you should know before you take lessons is "What is it that the teacher is actually doing?" What is the method they are using?" If you find that your student is succeeding, but really slowly, or is taking a long time to learn the instrument, chances are it the way they are being taught. I teach completely outside the traditional lesson format specifically because teaching by how the brain works is so much better.

If you have questions about this, contact me through my website at http://anaheimpiano.com and I'd be happy to give you some assistance that addresses the players in your house. There's not one solution that works for everyone, so I'd be happy to address any individual questions you may have.

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