J A M B U Z Z !!!!

Learning the piano is difficult, so to help you learn as quickly and easily as possible then you need to make sure you have a good tutor. Just like with any profession, then there are vastly different skill levels between people, and they will each have distinctly different personalities and teaching styles. You need to consider these things when you are choosing which tutor you want to study with.

Don’t be afraid to book an introductory lesson with a few different tutors, then compare each one based on that lesson to choose the one you want to continue with. If you only go with one tutor based on a recommendation from someone or an advert etc then you can’t compare them to anyone else and you don’t know if another teaching style would help you learn better, so make sure you shop around a bit.

Below we discuss 3 things you should be looking for in a good piano tutor:

Patience: This may seem like a trait that most people would ignore as long as the tutor is experienced and can teach you well, but I think it is important to the learning process. You will find that an impatient tutor is quite tough to work with, they will always be pushing you to make progress (which can be a good thing) and they will get frustrated when you cannot proceed at their pace or you make mistakes. This means you will probably start to be afraid of making mistakes as you don’t want your tutor scolding you, so you will dread your weekly lessons and stop going, unless someone like a parent is forcing you to go, in which case you will hate going and won’t absorb the lessons anywhere near as well.

Connection: Again this is something that people will sacrifice if they find a tutor with lots of experience, but it is really important. We work a lot harder for people we like and have a connection with, and we listen more to them and want to do well by them. So if you can find a tutor who you get on well with then you will push yourself harder to make them happy, and you will do it willingly instead of doing it out of fear like you would with an impatient tutor. It also means your lessons will be enjoyable so you will look forward to going to them and will stick with them for a lot longer.

Experience: This is something which people look for first and seem to think is the only important thing for a tutor to have, but I think it is only as important as the two other items above, because if you don’t like your lessons and give up on them then it doesn’t matter how much experience the tutor has. If they do have a lot of experience that means they can help you to develop quicker because they will know the answers to any problems you experience, and they will have a wide range of skills they can teach you as you get better and better.

If you would prefer to learn from a course rather than getting lessons then check out this Learn and Master Piano review.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Related Posts

Trackback URI | Comments RSS