Bromley Piano Lessons

BRAVOOOOOOOOO!

🌺ART OF GIFTING MUSIC🌺

We had a lovely Mother’s Day concert where students gifted their composition for their mums.

Playing for someone, composing for someone is lovely 🥰

We had a wonderful day celebrating Mother’s Day! As well as playing their pieces, some students presented their compositions dedicated to their mums and some students played duets with their mums.

Thank you to all the amazing students who came to play today!

Congratulations to 10 year old Matthew for being awarded 3rd Prize at the Beckenham Festival in Grade 8 class!

This Maestro played his Haydn this evening with so much joy in his first ever festival experience!

Well done Matthew!

🌟Competition and Festival time coming up🌟

I hear many students talking about winning and not winning.

Guess what, I’m not interested in you winning!

It’s a place where you can see how far you’ve come. It’s a place for YOU to test your ability. Your growth has nothing to do with anyone else’s growth. Don’t let people confuse you. It’s also a place you can get productive advice from fantastic adjudicators who are also teachers themselves and they want you to keep growing too.

You are the one using these events to enhance your growth. Don’t offer yourself to boost other people’s pride and egos which doesn’t do any good for the world. Making a mistake is not embarrassing. It’s the part of growing as a performance artist. Use it as an opportunity to be better. It’s also an OPPORTUNITY to listen to what other passionate pianists are practising and an OPPORTUNITY to get some inspiration!

Focus on
YOUR brilliance
YOUR achievement
YOUR next goal
YOUR creation
YOUR passion

It’s about you and your art.

Win or no win, whatever. If you do your best, that’s all it matters!!

Quite an appropriate art work for piano lessons in Bromley the home town of Bowie 🌟

Video for the parents with beginner students and cannot sit in the lesson.

Why is it important to focus on getting the wrist correctly at the start of learning the piano? Here is the video of to explain why I always take time to do some wrist warm up and how we do it. Also to clarify what I write in the homework notes! Enjoy your practice!

Explanation for Parents (Wrist movements. Primary Level)

Rest in Peace 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🕊

🤗🎼All learning can be (and should be) personalised! When learning becomes fun, the possibility is endless!

If there are 10 people in the class room, there are 10 ways of learning. Every student has different approach to learning.

Some mathematical brains will analyse first, some artistic brain might create an image first, some sporty brain might prefer to do some actions first, some passionate gamers prefer to imagine some game characters first… all before creating their own interpretation of pieces of music.

When we can relate their playing to learning, that’s when the fun starts in learning.

When you get stuck practising with your children at home, be a bit more creative. Have fun. Let them find fun in practising first then practice will start to happen more frequently without those looong negotiations!

(Extra)
This is a strange phenomenon happening in my house. I admit that it’s not to do with learning, but this task was a chore for them before….

My kids love pretend play and also Sonic the hedgehog. Never been good at tidying up but suddenly they are amazing at it when they pretend to be Sonic the hedgehog. They actually do it super speed as well. They don’t mind doing it as long as they are in the character. 😂

🌟THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING THE CORRECT WORDS WHILST TEACHING CHILDREN🌟

I had a fantastic annual training day at work. One of the talk was about “Setting the stage for Success” by wonderful Stepping Stone senior consultant Nicola Eason.

One of the things she highlighted in her talk was how important it is to choose the correct words whilst teaching children.

Tell them more “Do”s than “Don’t”s.

Encouraging to do things with the “Do” words makes instructions clearer and verifies every step as a positive step. This will lead to building confidence.

Telling them to “don’t” do something doesn’t create clear instructions and possibly creates anxiety about taking the next step. Eventually their actual piano practice will become anxious process and lead to getting lack of enthusiasm for practising.

Positive words need to be kept at home whilst practising with your own child too.

I definitely been told this by a piano teacher at Guildhall who said, “Never write, DON’T on your music. Only write what to DO. Your brain won’t get your instructions if you phrase it with the word DON’T!”

Power of words is immense!