All About Choosing Piano Schools And Teachers
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Hi those looking for piano teacher, your may consider Mr Liong. He has been teaching 2 yrs to my daughter who almost gave up piano, and helped her developed interests and make lesson fun.
You can check out the website : https://pianoteachersingaporesite.wordpress.com/ -
Hi those looking for piano teacher, your may consider Mr Liong. He has been teaching 2 yrs to my daughter who almost gave up piano, and helped her developed interests and make lesson fun.
You can check out the website : https://pianoteachersingaporesite.wordpress.com/ -
In learning music, there are various piano teaching methods music teachers use to help their students excel.
These are some other Piano teaching methods being used in music schools in Singapore:
Suzuki Method
Developed by a Japanese violinist, Shin’ichi Suzuki, this method of teaching is based on the realisation that children learn their mother tongue with ease Suzuki recreates the ‘ideal’ environment for learning music with what a person has for learning their native language, by including love, praise, rote training and repetition, and a timetable lead by the student’s developmental readiness for learning a particular technique. This teaching method exposes students to performance opportunities in a positive way, such that performing becomes a joy rather than a dreaded job.
Orff Schulwerk
The basis of this “approach to music” is that students have innate abilities to engage in rudimentary forms of music using basic rhythms and melodies. It is developed by Carl Orff, a prominent German composer, to help foster students’ self-discovery of their bodies as a percussive instrument, to encourage improvisation, and to discourage adult pressures and rote learning.
Yamaha Music
Interestingly, the Yamaha method began with Genichi Kawakami, a businessman who expanded his family-owned piano company to an international conglomerate, making products ranging from motorcycles to musical instruments. He developed the Electone Organ, and oversaw the establishment of the Yamaha Music Foundation in 1966. The objective of this method is to cultivate students’ musical ability within an environment that inspires a love for music. Thus, the use of solfège, participation in music appreciation activities, singing, and movement to music, rhythm and keyboard ensembles.
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At https://www.bloom.com.sg/, our piano lessons are taught using the Alfred Premier Piano Method. Alfred Music features a variety of other books, all correlated and presented in 4 progressive levels. Its baroque, romantic and classical piano pieces are arranged without too much fanfare, making it ideal for serious, self-motivated students to learn. The Alfred Method for children uses coloured pictures, graphics, and multimedia to help with the learning process.
The four courses of Alfred’s Basic Piano Library—Prep, Basic, All-In-One, Complete—are all based on the same fundamentals. Students learning by this method are often good at:
* correct playing habits
* Intervallic Reading, which means recognizing the intervals between notes
* having a solid foundation in music theory
* multi-key reading
* chord progression
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By understanding how each music teaching method works, we can decide how the strengths and weaknesses of the method score against our preferences, and the way we learn.
I will end this post with this quote by Rita Dunn: If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns.
Read the full article at https://www.bloom.com.sg/how-do-you-learn-a-look-into-piano-teaching-methods/ -
When my girl was around K2 that was years back. Her piano teacher has never scolded her. A very patience lady. My girl managed to finish her Grade 8 theory and practical when she was Sec One. I have also recommended alot of parents kid who keen in learning piano with her. You may contact her directly at 96307894 Cindy. Cindy usually teaches in Hougang, Sengkang, Punggol area as she resides in Hougang herself.
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monica15\" post_id=\"2102081\" time=\"1679418792\" user_id=\"201147:
Hi Monica,
I always dreamed of playing the piano, I still have small children and I don't know if I should realize my dream in them?
but I know it's great for a baby's growth
Perhaps you can start with baby music programmes, such as Musikgarten. Musikgarten is backed by Early Childhood research, and offers music programmes suitable for babies in-utero to five years old. Over time, as your child expresses more and more interest in music, you can send them for individual music classes, and then you'll have a Little Musician in the house!
https://postimg.cc/xkz9WN4D
https://www.bloom.com.sg/contact-us/ is one of the few schools offering Musikgarten. You can consider going for a trial class first! -
monica15\" post_id=\"2102081\" time=\"1679418792\" user_id=\"201147:
You can realize that dream yourself, or better still learn together with your kids. The pedagogy for adults have improved significantly in recent years and many younger professionally trained teachers are more than willing to teach adults with age appropriate methods and materials.
I always dreamed of playing the piano, I still have small children and I don't know if I should realize my dream in them?
but I know it's great for a baby's growth
I started when I was 17 and got my ABRSM Diplomas in my 30s, age is not a barrier. -
I wrote a new blog post for teachers who are struggling with students who don't practice. Parents might find the pointers useful also.
https://charleswupianostudio.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-student-did-not-practice-again.html?fbclid=IwAR36ZmDqtTZptHuCuxnOMXpymG7z2uyrfZRNf1a89Ug6ZCe16HLecSx4R4s
My Student Did Not Practice Again
I am sure the sight of a student who did not practice again was not unfamiliar to many of us teachers. I understand that it is frustrating and could suck the joy of teaching; I do know teachers who threw in the towel because of this. I must admit that it was a sore point at one point of my teaching career, but I decided to adopt a more positive approach because I genuinely wanted all my students to have a positive learning experience. Let me share with you a couple of pointers that hopefully could provide you with better solutions to this issue.
Empathize and diagnose
It might be an instinct for many of us to immediately ask “Why didn’t you practice?” in a disapproving tone when faced with a non-practicing student. We might even launch into a tirade chiding student or institute a penalty. Perhaps naively we think that the student would feel bad for disappointing us. But trust me on this, those actions are going to have opposite the effects we desire.
We could instead try to empathise with our non-practicing students. We could ask them gently for example “I’ve noticed that you did not do sufficient practice last week, could you tell me what prevented you from doing so?” When they feel that their teachers are genuinely concerned with their well-beings, they might start to share the real reasons and you could then start to find the solutions to those issues.
There are many possible reasons that might lead to decreased motivations to practice for example: lack of proper practice environment, poorly serviced piano, overbearing parents, relationship problems, lack of palpable progress, etc. We are not going to discuss the possible solutions of those issues in this article; my main point is we need to keep a cool head and work the issues cooperatively rather than simply asking a student to practice more.
Progressively increase practice
I think many of us are probably guilty of asking our students to practice a x amount of time every day. That was probably how many of us were instructed by our teachers to practice last time during our student days. Asking a non-practicing student to do this is probably only going to be a continual exercise in frustration as they would most likely be unable to meet the stipulated practice targets.
Instead, start by setting goals that could be realistically accomplished with whatever little practice time the student would be willing to commit at first. For example, if a student claimed he could only practice half hour during the week, assign practice goals that could be completed within that half hour. And then gradually increase the amount of difficulty of practice goals that would require the student to commit more practice hours. By achieving smaller and more realistic goals, the student would improve in confidence and start to find practice more rewarding. I find this approach very effective in my teaching practice and I have successfully rehabilitated many non-practicing students this way -
:scared: A passionate, dedicated and patient full time Yamaha piano teacher with Diploma in Piano Recital (ATCL) from Trinity College of London, U.K., ABRSM Practical and Theory Grade 8 and Master in Educational Psychology is opening new slots for students. With 15 years of experience in teaching children as young as 3 years old to adults, she believes learning music has no age limit. She can prepare students for ABRSM practical and theory exams as well as learning for leisure.
Every student is unique and learn differently, hence she thrives in customising lessons plans according to each student’s learning style and needs. She believes it is important to instil in her students the love for music and nurture them to play piano in an enjoyable manner.
She wishes to help her students develop confidence in expressing themselves through music. Her students have 100% passing rates and 80% of them achieved Distinctions or Merits.
Lesson could be held at students' place or teacher’s studio.
Pls call or WhatsApp 9099 5519 to enquire. :callme:
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Looking for piano students.
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