All About Choosing Piano Schools And Teachers

[ctct61t]

concern_mum:

hi,ctc61t, which Christopher music school did your daughter goes to? My son attend Verve Music School and they are charging me $105 for grade 1.

My daughter is currently studying in Christopher Woodland mart. The course is 30 minutes per week. But I think it's enough for my daughter.

My danghter went in the middle of march, and has completed her 2nd book, she is on the way of her 3rd book.

[redrose]

How much do I have pay for home piano teacher??(at my place) What is the market rate?For Beginners.

[ctct61t]

redrose:

How much do I have pay for home piano teacher??(at my place) What is the market rate?For Beginners.

There are many Christopher music school branchs over the Singapore, you can check the most nearst one to your home.

http://piano.com.sg/ver2/cms.edu.sg/ver2/index_files/page0005.htm

The market rate for beginners is likely to be around S$40 per hour.

[gajidouma]

Hi pianojazzy


Could you give some advice on… my child has been following Yamaha school programmes… learning keyboard and piano… if I get her a 1-to-1 private piano tuitor, do I still let her continue with Yamaha lesson at the same time? Is engaging a private tuitor alone good enough?

In what age or what grade/level do you think would be more appropriate for a child to have private tution instead of group learning?

[ctct61t]

gajidouma:

Hi pianojazzy


Could you give some advice on... my child has been following Yamaha school programmes.. learning keyboard and piano... if I get her a 1-to-1 private piano tuitor, do I still let her continue with Yamaha lesson at the same time? Is engaging a private tuitor alone good enough?

In what age or what grade/level do you think would be more appropriate for a child to have private tution instead of group learning?

Base on my experience, the child is more suitable for taking 1-to-1 piano course over 5.5 years old, except the child got special interested in playing piano, otherwise parents will spend more effort on it.

If you take 1-to-1 private piano tuitor, the yamaha's keyboard learning is no need to be continued, but yamaha's music learning and playing is more fun compare to 1-to-1 piano learning.

[gajidouma]

Hi ctct61t,


thanks so much for the sharing. Actually I am concerned that if I let the child complete Yamaha JMC & JXC 4-year course, by the time she will be 8 years old. Will it then be too late for us to swicth to private tuitor?

or should we let her complete JMC then switch to private tuitor instead of moving up to JXC? or having private tuitor and JXC at the same time? :roll:

any advice or comment for us?

[ctct61t]

gajidouma:

Hi ctct61t,


thanks so much for the sharing. Actually I am concerned that if I let the child complete Yamaha JMC & JXC 4-year course, by the time she will be 8 years old. Will it then be too late for us to swicth to private tuitor?

or should we let her complete JMC then switch to private tuitor instead of moving up to JXC? or having private tuitor and JXC at the same time? :roll:

any advice or comment for us?

If you decide to let your child to learn piano, you had better let he/she switch to private tuitor when your child is around 6 years old. You can perform both lesson concurrent for a few period (maybe 1~2 month), to know the teaching level of your pravite piano teacher, and you can make a better decision then.

My daughter quite JMC when she was 5 years old, I feel now that it was a little bit too earlier for she quite the lesson then. She started to play piano when she was 5 years, but it's too hard for her at the beginning, as it was too young for her to sit down for a long time at that time, so I stopped her studying for a few month, after a half year later, when she re-new her piano course, I found a great improve on her attitude on studying. She continues her piano study for about 5 months, completing 2.5 books during these period, and she loves to piano gradually...

Now I feel it's right that Yamaha music school insist on accepting students above 6 years old to play piano, it's a suitable age both for kids and their parents to go for piano study.

[MMM]

Hi,


My kids spent 1 year in Ossia (affiliated to Christopher) and spent around 1 year there. But subsequently due to change of teachers and bad ones, I moved them to Kawai at the beginning of the year. They had tremendously improvement compared to the amount of time they had spent in Ossia. Fee is around $110 for weekends as compared to $60+ for Ossia. But I think the teacher quality makes the diff.

My girl has a full time filippino teacher who is very demanding. Meanwhile for my son, he has a NIE trained teacher who only teaches on weekends but she is fantastic with kids and he is very motivated and improved alot after learning from her. I regretted not starting them earlier in Kawai as my girl now has a bad habit that is difficult to correct… heavy hands and stiff fingers which is affecting her progress. Probably the earlier teacher didn’t guide her well so it’s become a habit.

[ctct61t]

MMM:

Hi,


My kids spent 1 year in Ossia (affiliated to Christopher) and spent around 1 year there. But subsequently due to change of teachers and bad ones, I moved them to Kawai at the beginning of the year. They had tremendously improvement compared to the amount of time they had spent in Ossia. Fee is around $110 for weekends as compared to $60+ for Ossia. But I think the teacher quality makes the diff.

My girl has a full time filippino teacher who is very demanding. Meanwhile for my son, he has a NIE trained teacher who only teaches on weekends but she is fantastic with kids and he is very motivated and improved alot after learning from her. I regretted not starting them earlier in Kawai as my girl now has a bad habit that is difficult to correct... heavy hands and stiff fingers which is affecting her progress. Probably the earlier teacher didn't guide her well so it's become a habit.

It's really true, a good teacher is very important for a piano beginner, a good habit will affect further progress tremendously.

MMM, could you kindly let me know which Kawai yor kids are going?

[caroline3sg]

MMM

Yes, pls let us know which Kawai you go and what is the teacher’s name.