How To Teach Piano Online Course
When I was 13 years old, I was approached by a mother of three who wanted to know if I could teach her kids how to play piano. I had been in piano lessons for seven years at that point and was an accomplished pianist. I was flattered by this mother’s request, but I had no idea how to teach piano or where to start, so I tried to pass up the opportunity. Persistent as she was, this mother kept asking and I eventually agreed.
I thought back to when I had just begun taking lessons, and used the children’s books that I had been provided with to start teaching her children how to play. While the children’s books were cute and full of pictures that kept the kids captivated, I was generally unimpressed by the music and methods offered by the books. I begun to experiment with other children’s methods in popular music books such as the Alfred method, Bastien method, Faber and Faber, Glover method, Thompson method, and even the Schaum method. I found bits and pieces of each that I liked, but all lacked a well rounded approach and no one brand stood out as a favorite.
As a teenager teaching piano lessons, my students then were the guinea pigs that helped me develop the methods that I use today. As a middle schooler, just 14 years old, I was teaching between 18-20 students weekly. Modeling after my own teachers, I decided to hold a recital for my students. It felt good to see how happy their parents were with their child’s progress and performance, but I was never satisfied because I felt like their skills were developing at a much slower rate than was possible.
Fast-forward to today, I have taught more than 2,000 children and adults how to play piano since I was a young teenage girl. Now, I use my own method that I have developed over the years that immerses students in the fundamentals of rhythm and musical theory from the beginning. I have found that my
accelerated approach works for students of all ages and the rate of progress brings my students, their parents, and myself a great sense of satisfaction compared to the glacial pace of the common beginner methods.
I offer my teaching method to teachers of any age and background who are interested in seeing the success that I’ve
enjoyed in their own students. I have been teaching my students how to teach their own students for the last 20 years, and can confidently say that I am past the guinea pig stage of developing my curriculum. My students not only teach private lessons to one child at a time, but I have helped those student-teachers learn how to teach piano lessons in small group settings like I do in my own studio.
My teacher course is offered online, it consists of 8 videos that will walk you through how I get my students off to a great start. In these videos I explain how I get my students playing with both hands, playing with chords, and reading music starting from day one.
More information about this course can be found at this link.
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