Over the years my ears have been pinned back by stories from students who experienced emotionally abusive teachers. One who transferred to my studio from another, described her head having been shoved into the music after striking a wrong note.
A teacher has to train himself to step back and put music above and beyond his need to vent frustration through it. If the instructor has dealt with his own relationship to music-making and practicing, cleansing it of self-punishment and deprecation, then he is on the way to relating to students with a healthy attitude, eschewing verbal abuse of any kind.
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2) Deadlines about playing difficult music up to tempo are discarded.
The teacher realizes that pieces with technical challenges ripen over time and should not be prematurely pushed in directions unnatural to the flow of learning.
2) The teacher does not insult a student for a performance he disagrees with on an interpretive level. Instead he shares ideas based on sound performance practices and integrates these into lessons, allowing the student to engage in an interactive, productive dialog.
4) A piano instructor does not force or coerce a student to participate in a student recital or competition. There are no threats attached to these opportunities. Framing the event as a sharing occasion will go a long way to remove feelings of dread and anxiety. Still, the right of a student to decline participation is respected.
Finally, the piano teacher respects and observes boundaries. He will not get involved in volatile family situations and divorces with pulls and tugs of fathers and mothers using piano lessons as dumping grounds of anger.
This is wonderful Shirley. It was a touching world growing up with different piano students coming to the house, some from quite far away. I sure got a crush on one of them. I am sure I was never a problem, but the kids of piano teachers can throw one more monkey wrench in the mix.
I sure miss those days, and that student.
Parents do well to spend some time getting to know any teachers who will be spending time with their children, especially alone.
John
There has been exactly one brief paper published about emotional abuse in music education. It was by some Canadian elementary school teacher who noted that there was essentially no research on the topic. I am not surprised, and I assume there still is none.
I began teaching piano by accident. I was around twenty years old, working odd jobs. I had skipped the University route (more out of stubbornness than anything else), and had no sense of what to do with my life.
So after taking a long break from lessons (between the ages of 16 and 20), I decided to reconnect with my piano teacher and take my grade 8 exam over the summer. It was a great experience re-bonding and getting back in the saddle.
Anyway, after spending about five years doing this work, I was pretty burnt out. I was in my mid-twenties, and starting to seriously consider what I wanted to do with my life. Should I further my piano education? Should I go to university, or get my grade 9 RCM?
Instead of walking either of these paths, I decided to entirely jump ship. Since I was so young when I started teaching, I was hungry for other non-piano life experiences. I wanted to explore my options, and explore my many passions.
I ended up with a few responses from that. I ended up meeting a lady who I did independent contracting work for (she had a larger studio, so it was a way for me to pick up more students), and we formed a friendship. I got to participate in her recitals, and she even taught me some piano lessons when I was studying for my elementary pedagogy. I had to continue that education!
Where possible, look for a piano teacher who cares enough about teaching to belong to a professional organization. The best piano teachers will almost certainly have a degree in music and be capable themselves of performing at a high level of skill. Students learn a lot by imitation, and the teacher should be able to demonstrate good playing, posture, expression, and musical nuance.
Besides getting to know potential piano teachers by talking with them, it is also important to watch teachers in action. Some teachers may allow you to observe a lesson with one of their current students. If that is not possible, ask for a one-time lesson for your child before you make a long-term commitment. Here are some things to watch for when observing a piano teacher:
I have never taken piano lessons. I can read notes, not fast, but I can. I took tonal harmony course (just for fun) when I was at the university. I mean, I know the basics of harmony. Also, I can play fur elise and moonlight sonata mvt.1 for example.
So, if I start to take piano lessons, what contribution can the teacher make? Maybe I am holding my hands in the wrong position, so, the teacher can help me for that. And what else? Should I take piano lessons?
Virtually everything about piano playing is slightly less obvious than you would at first think. You just press down the appropriate keys, right? Almost certainly you already know that there's more to it than that.
At the most basic level, which fingers to set where is a question that opens a whole world of possibilities. A good teacher knows this world and can tell you which fingering will work well for your hand size, your level of expertise, your strength and your memory.
Hitting the right notes the right way becomes incomparably easier if you learn the right wrist and arm movements to guide the fingers. A lot of these are, in fact, rather counter-intuitive. A teacher knows these movements and can observe how well your movements work, and what you should change. (It's virtually impossible to observe yourself as well as someone else practiced in the art.)
The same goes for interpretation. The point of music is not to reproduce notes accurately - for that, put on a record, or a MIDI renderer. The point is to capture whatever it is that a piece expresses, and to participate in the joy or calm or pain or anticipation that it is about. A really good teacher can advise you shape your choice of tempo, articulation, dynamics etc. so that it creates the desired overall impression. Most importantly, through practice a teacher can enable you to make those choices for yourself, opening up the entire boundless world of music out there.
So ideally -- especially for a self-learner -- a teacher is most useful for identifying and correcting which techniques fall into category 1 (things you don't realize you're doing wrong, or that you don't even know about). They can also be helpful in providing instruction -- and more importantly, feedback -- for techniques that fall into category 2. Without knowing you, I can't say what those areas are, so I don't know what specifically a piano teacher would help you with. Once a particular technique reaches category 3 (you are capable of doing it, but with concentration), the teacher will have a smaller role, perhaps just suggesting further pieces to practice and providing evaluation.
After taking piano lessons for several months, I want to answer my own question now. The piano teacher made me realize my mistakes and gave exercises to get rid of them. Some of my mistakes/realizations were:
There are certain generally accepted rules how fingers should be used. If you learn self dependently without taking this into consideration, even if your music is correct by sound, any person competent in piano will see you are not professional. My child keeps correcting me because I am self-learned myself but hire teacher for her.
I spent several hours each week for 10 years learning how to read, write, sight-sing and play music in various solfeggio and theory/music analysis classes, training my ears and my musical abilities. I took weekly piano lessons as well as weekly classes in piano accompaniment. I even took a couple of years of saxophone lessons.
I partook in multiple performance opportunities every year, including the annual piano recitals and academy musical performances (both as part of the kids choir and as part of the instrumental accompaniments).
While building a life and a career on the other side of the world, I re-discovered the piano and music in my life, slowly but surely re-fuelling my passion for making music and creating an overwhelming desire to share this with other adults. From 2015 to 2018 I took advanced piano lessons as well as teacher training with accomplished teacher and teacher trainer Dr Jan McMillan.
I returned to regular piano lessons and started diving into pedagogy/andragogy (the science of teaching adults) and creative teaching techniques. With the help of powerhouse mentors and by actively seeking out as much professional development opportunities as I could, I became more and more excited about the possibilities of teaching in a different, more creative way. By focusing less on exams and performing, and instead focusing on creativity, musicality and musical understanding, I realised I could open a door for my students to discover their own musical abilities and strengths in a more friendly, relaxed and enjoyful manner.
And so I established Piano Ecademy, an online piano studio designed to help adults find their inner musician and learn to truly, deeply enjoy music making at the piano. I want my students to identify as musicians and pianists.
I teach to help other adults find their own musical voice and share that with as many (or as little!) people as they choose. I do that by offering flexible, creative and fun piano lessons that inspire and encourage you to continue to learn and grow as a musician and as a pianist.
PianoBelloso.com is the teaching studio site of Ian Belloso, a licensed Simply Music teacher in Whittier, California. In addition to teaching, Ian is an electronic music producer, and an avid blogger about education, philosophy, psychology, and the impact of music on our modern world. ff782bc1db
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