As Private Music Teachers, we’re armed with many similar tools to help our students learn to play an instrument. Teaching Analysis in your lessons early on is important, as it helps students, young to old, learn to make choices about what it is they are playing and how they are playing it. How And Why
Many parents go into a child’s first music lesson wondering how it will actually go. Will their child feel comfortable with the teacher? Will the lesson feel easy to follow? Will they come away excited to keep going? Those questions are a normal part of getting started, especially when music lessons are new for the
The best part of teaching in home music lessons is your students stay with you longer then those who travel to their lessons at a music school or a teacher’s home. There are 3 easy to understand reasons why this is. One, a great music teacher gets more time with the family of their student.
When it comes to learning an instrument, most students (and even some parents!) assume you should always practice from the beginning of a piece to the end. But as music teachers who work closely with beginner students, we can confidently say this: backwards practice works best. That’s right—starting at the end of a piece and
