All About Choosing Piano Schools And Teachers

[Jacksonjose1128]

Dreamaurora:

Jacksonjose1128:

I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

Pretty much most method books other than Yamaha or Suzuki use the alphabet system to name the notes. Do Re Mi are solfeges and used in extensively in Yamaha or Suzuki because of the nature of the method i.e. a lot of listening and copying at beginning stage. It is significantly a lot easier to affix pitches to Do Re Mi rather than A B C.

Just curious，could you play by ear

[Jaslim80]

farmermum:

Looking for individual piano class for 7 yr old. Anyone heard of Euterpe music school? Any reviews?

Or Cristofori? Good?
Actually wanted yamaha, but they dun hv individual class for weekends.

Hi, if you want individual lessons, you can try finding a teacher at http://www.singaporepianohub.com

They will give you a list of teachers that's based on your requirements and you can choose from there. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jason

[Jacksonjose1128]

Dreamaurora:

Jacksonjose1128:

I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

Pretty much most method books other than Yamaha or Suzuki use the alphabet system to name the notes. Do Re Mi are solfeges and used in extensively in Yamaha or Suzuki because of the nature of the method i.e. a lot of listening and copying at beginning stage. It is significantly a lot easier to affix pitches to Do Re Mi rather than A B C.

And I have one more qns here.... I just bought a new piano for myself, its an upright piano
The person will deliver to me tmr, the salesperson there told me the tuning service will come to me about a week cos the piano needs \"rest\"
Does that mean I can't play the piano for the one week? I know its out of tune, but i just feel the need to practise the fingering, does it affects the \"rest\" they are talking about?

[Dreamaurora]

Jacksonjose1128:

Dreamaurora:

[quote=\"Jacksonjose1128\"]
I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

Pretty much most method books other than Yamaha or Suzuki use the alphabet system to name the notes. Do Re Mi are solfeges and used in extensively in Yamaha or Suzuki because of the nature of the method i.e. a lot of listening and copying at beginning stage. It is significantly a lot easier to affix pitches to Do Re Mi rather than A B C.

Just curious，could you play by ear[/quote]No, I could not. I started piano late hence I no longer was able to develop accurate pitch recognition. Several of my students who started very young could do it though. Every child is born with a good degree of perfect pitch but this deteorirate as they grow older depending on their exposure to music. Hence this is why Yamaha courses have age limit.

[Dreamaurora]

Jacksonjose1128:

Dreamaurora:

[quote=\"Jacksonjose1128\"]
I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

Pretty much most method books other than Yamaha or Suzuki use the alphabet system to name the notes. Do Re Mi are solfeges and used in extensively in Yamaha or Suzuki because of the nature of the method i.e. a lot of listening and copying at beginning stage. It is significantly a lot easier to affix pitches to Do Re Mi rather than A B C.

And I have one more qns here.... I just bought a new piano for myself, its an upright piano
The person will deliver to me tmr, the salesperson there told me the tuning service will come to me about a week cos the piano needs \"rest\"
Does that mean I can't play the piano for the one week? I know its out of tune, but i just feel the need to practise the fingering, does it affects the \"rest\" they are talking about?[/quote]You can of course play it. I never heard that brand new piano piano needs to 'rest'. Maybe he meant that the brand new piano needs to be exposed to current weather condition first so when the tuner tunes the piano it won't go out of tune fast.

[cse1217]

Hi Jacksonjose1128

Agree with Dreamaurora. Dont worry, you can still play piano! It shouldnt affect the tuning that needs to be done later. It means the optimum timing for tuning from the timing that the piano is being bought and settle down.

[cse1217]

Jacksonjose1128:

I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it[/quote]

My personal preference is still using A, B, C because when we do theory, the notes are usually refer with letter names. For do re mi, I like to think of it as a relative pitch system. So depending on which key you learn, the do re mi is different. That's my only personal preference

I do play by ear

[Jacksonjose1128]

cse1217:

Jacksonjose1128:

I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

My personal preference is still using A, B, C because when we do theory, the notes are usually refer with letter names. For do re mi, I like to think of it as a relative pitch system. So depending on which key you learn, the do re mi is different. That's my only personal preference

I do play by ear :)[/quote]
I attended my first lesson, Im so in love with it! I like to use do re mi maybe cos I used to play the Erhu? Erhu uses Solfege
The teacher went through the lesson relatively fast with me, yea and I could actually follow that pace (; looking forward to the rest of my lessons is Yamaha

[marmalade]

Any recommendation for piano teacher who is teaching young children (age 4-6) in a small group (max 4 students) at home in the north-east area?


Thanks!

[cse1217]

Jacksonjose1128:

cse1217:

[quote=\"Jacksonjose1128\"]

I have some qns here.... not regarding your class thou, Im just curious if you learn piano in A B C note or do re mi? I got my textbook from Yamaha and was shock that the book has do re mi in it

My personal preference is still using A, B, C because when we do theory, the notes are usually refer with letter names. For do re mi, I like to think of it as a relative pitch system. So depending on which key you learn, the do re mi is different. That's my only personal preference

I do play by ear :)[/quote]I attended my first lesson, Im so in love with it! I like to use do re mi maybe cos I used to play the Erhu? Erhu uses Solfege
The teacher went through the lesson relatively fast with me, yea and I could actually follow that pace (; looking forward to the rest of my lessons is Yamaha[/quote]

Ah I see. If you are learning chinese music, then it will be using solfege and all the score reading is in solfege. Interesting that you are learning Erhu!! If you are using solfege, you need to be familiar with the scales of different keys well! All the best in your learning!