Encourage Good Technique During Music Lessons

Encouraging good technique will always help a music lessons but it’s a word that scares many parents, students, and teachers.  As music teachers, we know the importance of proper technique.  If a student learns the wrong way to hold a guitar, hold their drum sticks, or position their hands over a piano during private piano lessons, it can be very difficult to correct that later in a students musical life.  And if left uncorrected, improper technique may greatly limit a student’s abilities to play what they want to play.


shutterstock_2361448291Sounds simple, right?  Just teach proper and good technique in the beginning and everything will be fine and dandy.  The difficult part about learning proper technique is that often times, it will take a while for the specific positions to feel at all natural.  Our hands and arms and legs will try to resist these movements at first and create our own awkward technique.  This is where the teacher steps in and tries to correct this.
Correcting improper technique can be a daunting task that can leave the student feeling discouraged.  However, there are ways to correct improper technique while still remaining positive and keeping the lessons fun.

Stay Positive About Good Technique

Let’s say that we have a student sitting down at the piano and playing without the proper curvature of the hands.  However, they are sitting up straight without slouching.  Instead of harping on what they are doing wrong, instead