All About Choosing Piano Schools And Teachers

[germum]

Hi,


i am thinking of letting my 4 yr old boy learn piano.

i have a few questions and hope someone can help to answer.


-should i send to a school or to have a teacher coming or going to her place to learn
-can we get a keyboard first and test water the child interest? cos i dont want to have a white elephant in the house.
-anyone has contact of teacher to recommend?i staying in the east. can email me at [email protected]
-do we go teacher's place or teacher come our place?
- what is the current rate?

Thank you

[Dreamaurora]

germum:

Hi,


i am thinking of letting my 4 yr old boy learn piano.

i have a few questions and hope someone can help to answer.


-should i send to a school or to have a teacher coming or going to her place to learn
-can we get a keyboard first and test water the child interest? cos i dont want to have a white elephant in the house.
-anyone has contact of teacher to recommend?i staying in the east. can email me at [email protected]
-do we go teacher's place or teacher come our place?
- what is the current rate?

Thank you

If you wish to start individual lesson, I generally recommend getting a full time home-based piano teacher if you want a stable teacher. It is more expensive and troublesome, but definitely worth the trouble if you want the quality and stability. Most music school and travelling teachers often suffer from poor attrition rate. Music schools' teachers often change (unless study direct with owner) and travelling teachers may drop your son out anytime (yes, it happened to one of my current student because the teacher wanted to focus on her full time career).

As a starter instrument, I recommend a minimum of properly weighted digital piano, which nowadays you can get from $800-2000. Best if you can invest in a better instrument from the start to show to your son that you are serious about piano. If you just want to test the water first, you can send your son for appreciation courses such as JMC. For this purpose, a keyboard will be sufficient.

Hope that helps, PMed you a contact for a teacher in the East.

[germum]

Hi,


I am looking for a female teacher to teach my 4 years old boy..
prefer to go teacher's plac/studio in the east as currently no piano at home.. planning to get a keyboard first.
Prefer a weekday night.
If anyone has any suitable teacher to recommend, please email me at [email protected]
Thanks in advance.

[phankao]

germum:

Hi,


I am looking for a female teacher to teach my 4 years old boy..
prefer to go teacher's plac/studio in the east as currently no piano at home.. planning to get a keyboard first.
Prefer a weekday night.
If anyone has any suitable teacher to recommend, please email me at [email protected]
Thanks in advance.

Your 4yo can concentrate on a lesson at night?

I know it can be tricky ... even in the late afternoon. Timing very important for lessons for preschoolers.

[smonkey]

My DS is 7 years old and stays JXC. Since his strong intention in piano, I need assistance for a passionate, professional 1-1 private piano tutor. I stay in Toh Guan road, it doesn’t matter if my home or piano studio. Any recommend? PM me please, thanks a lot!

[germum]

Dreamaurora:

germum:

Hi,


i am thinking of letting my 4 yr old boy learn piano.

i have a few questions and hope someone can help to answer.


-should i send to a school or to have a teacher coming or going to her place to learn
-can we get a keyboard first and test water the child interest? cos i dont want to have a white elephant in the house.
-anyone has contact of teacher to recommend?i staying in the east. can email me at [email protected]
-do we go teacher's place or teacher come our place?
- what is the current rate?

Thank you

If you wish to start individual lesson, I generally recommend getting a full time home-based piano teacher if you want a stable teacher. It is more expensive and troublesome, but definitely worth the trouble if you want the quality and stability. Most music school and travelling teachers often suffer from poor attrition rate. Music schools' teachers often change (unless study direct with owner) and travelling teachers may drop your son out anytime (yes, it happened to one of my current student because the teacher wanted to focus on her full time career).

As a starter instrument, I recommend a minimum of properly weighted digital piano, which nowadays you can get from $800-2000. Best if you can invest in a better instrument from the start to show to your son that you are serious about piano. If you just want to test the water first, you can send your son for appreciation courses such as JMC. For this purpose, a keyboard will be sufficient.

Hope that helps, PMed you a contact for a teacher in the East.

Hi Dreamaurora, thank you for your pm.

I have another question. My friends were advising me to go to musch school for lesson.. group classes.. as they felt that my boy is too young. but i see from this forum, a lot of kids started around his age.. some even young.
How do i determine whether to go for class or individual class? to go school or home-based teacher?

what other things to consider?

Sorry for many questions as i am new to all these

[sleepy]

germum:

Hi,


i am thinking of letting my 4 yr old boy learn piano.

i have a few questions and hope someone can help to answer.


-should i send to a school or to have a teacher coming or going to her place to learn
-can we get a keyboard first and test water the child interest? cos i dont want to have a white elephant in the house.
-anyone has contact of teacher to recommend?i staying in the east. can email me at [email protected]
-do we go teacher's place or teacher come our place?
- what is the current rate?

Thank you

Is this your ds very first instrument and first attempt at music lesson?
Then I would suggest group lessons (more fun for a young child) to expose him to piano & music lessons. You can get a keyboard at home in the meantime.

My dd used to attend Seimpi group lessons at Parkway but that particular center moved. You might want to browse Seimpi website for updates.
After converting dd to individual lessons, we started shopping for a piano. She used a keyboard for the initial 10.5 months of music lessons.

Thus, after confirming your ds interest in pursuing piano, you can start shopping for a piano and search for a piano teacher to coach 1 to 1. Whether teacher goes to your place or you go to hers really depends on that teacher's preference. I guess it's more important is to engage the right teacher.

[phankao]

germum:

what other things to consider?

Did your boy show interest ?

[germum]

phankao:

germum:

Hi,


I am looking for a female teacher to teach my 4 years old boy..
prefer to go teacher's plac/studio in the east as currently no piano at home.. planning to get a keyboard first.
Prefer a weekday night.
If anyone has any suitable teacher to recommend, please email me at [email protected]
Thanks in advance.

Your 4yo can concentrate on a lesson at night?

I know it can be tricky ... even in the late afternoon. Timing very important for lessons for preschoolers.

Hi Phankao,
i think so.. i referring more to 7pm?cos i usually will do activities with him in the evening.i think he ok with that timing.P

[Dreamaurora]

germum:

Dreamaurora:

[quote=\"germum\"]Hi,


i am thinking of letting my 4 yr old boy learn piano.

i have a few questions and hope someone can help to answer.


-should i send to a school or to have a teacher coming or going to her place to learn
-can we get a keyboard first and test water the child interest? cos i dont want to have a white elephant in the house.
-anyone has contact of teacher to recommend?i staying in the east. can email me at [email protected]
-do we go teacher's place or teacher come our place?
- what is the current rate?

Thank you

If you wish to start individual lesson, I generally recommend getting a full time home-based piano teacher if you want a stable teacher. It is more expensive and troublesome, but definitely worth the trouble if you want the quality and stability. Most music school and travelling teachers often suffer from poor attrition rate. Music schools' teachers often change (unless study direct with owner) and travelling teachers may drop your son out anytime (yes, it happened to one of my current student because the teacher wanted to focus on her full time career).

As a starter instrument, I recommend a minimum of properly weighted digital piano, which nowadays you can get from $800-2000. Best if you can invest in a better instrument from the start to show to your son that you are serious about piano. If you just want to test the water first, you can send your son for appreciation courses such as JMC. For this purpose, a keyboard will be sufficient.

Hope that helps, PMed you a contact for a teacher in the East.

Hi Dreamaurora, thank you for your pm.

I have another question. My friends were advising me to go to musch school for lesson.. group classes.. as they felt that my boy is too young. but i see from this forum, a lot of kids started around his age.. some even young.
How do i determine whether to go for class or individual class? to go school or home-based teacher?

what other things to consider?

Sorry for many questions as i am new to all these[/quote]Do you play piano or other instrument yourself? 4 years old children are not independent learners and you will need to assist your son in practice, which means sitting down with him during practice. There is no need for a rush to start lessons early, unless you plan to prepare your son for professional music career or accelerated courses such as NAFA Young Talents. I myself started at 17 years old and still managed to get my Hons in piano. This is Kiasuparents and of course there will be parents who start their kids very early, but the only way I can see this working is if at least one parent has music knowledge and able to assist. Yes, all my young students below 7 have parents who sit in and assist in practice.

You need to ask yourself first what is the purpose of sending your son to learn piano. Piano learning is a long and expensive journey, not to mention a physically and mentally exhausting at higher level. And this means you will need to commit time and money for your son, which get exponentially more as time goes. There will be exams and concerts to prepare so you must be prepared for this also. There is this misconception that as long as your child is interested, he will practice. That is very misleading and both parents and the teachers share equal responsibility to assist and motivate the students.

As for interest, there is no way to find out until your son tries picking up the instrument. Just because I like to listen to music does not mean I will automatically like picking up an instrument to make music. My personal suggestion would be to go for a trial lesson for both the group lesson and the individual lesson. Then see which one your son prefers.