Matova Music School

Matova Music School: Summer time is the time to boost your technical skills. Summer class of 8 weeks on better technique. Call now, or use [email protected] for more info.

Are you looking to improve your technique or to brush up your skills? Look no further. We offer short and extended classes to help you become better pianist, and to resolve these old issues with technique and hands coordination. For info: [email protected]

Are you working on your 2026 goals yet? Well, take on a new challenge. Sign up with me for piano lessons. For more info: [email protected]

Are you ready with your Christmas tunes? There is still time to learn a few. Stop by Matova Music School. Lessons for beginners and more advanced students, variety of classes for different needs and goals.

This is a scary dreadful word for everyone who has decided to study an instrument. Here I will share some advice about how to practice and what is best for students who want to deal with the stress of practicing. Is practicing really scary? WHY? Well, it takes time (time out from those endless computers games), it requires focus and thinking (how we hate to practice instead of watching meaningless reality shows, cooking shows, games, soap operas), and requires being proactive and responsible (how we don't like any of this)....

The art of practicing music This is a scary dreadful word for everyone who has decided to study an instrument. Here I will share some advice about how to practice and what is best for students who want to deal with the stress…

Practice is not about how much time you put in it, but how strong is your focus when you practice. The result absolutely depends on the focus. Start the practice with a short warm up, dont skip it, it prepares your hands, ligaments and tendons become softer and flexible as warmed up. Practice is a journey not a chore. Practice journey has many and different rounds, depends where in the process you are now....

Practice tips for Adult Students Practice is not about how much time you put in it, but how strong is your focus when you practice. The result absolutely depends on the focus. Start the practice with a short warm up, dont skip it,…

Elbow pointing down Widely spread fingers or conducting with index finger for more than beat or two. (Do you threaten or single people out?) Bending knees with the beat (very common). It is distracting, and unnatural. Bending head with the beat (very common). Looks very uncomfortable, is your neck hurting? Tucked neck, or forward neck: You must have stiff shoulders then....

Bad conducting technique signs Elbow pointing down Widely spread fingers or conducting with index finger for more than beat or two. (Do you threaten or single people out?) Bending knees with the beat (very common). It is distrac…

All students want to do well. The want to play as good as it is possible. Some more than others, but some know how to practice, others don’t. I advise each one based on the music they learn and the technical level they have. Some improve fast, others less. So how to practice? It is difficult to cut a matrix that fits all, but there are some basic rules of successful practice....

Practice secrets All students want to do well. The want to play as good as it is possible. Some more than others, but some know how to practice, others don’t. I advise each one based on the music they learn and the…

When adult students come to me for lessons, they all are at different level in terms of musical technical development. They also have accumulated some bad habits and some believes. Here I will address some of them. Youtube lessons-- often student will take lessons from me, and will continue to use questionable sites on internet promising fast learning. Why? You are not learning faster, you are postponing the process....

Adult Students believes and expectations, do/don’t When adult students come to me for lessons, they all are at different level in terms of musical technical development. They also have accumulated some bad habits and some believes. Here I will addr…

The scales, chords and arpegios are fundamental skill for each pianist. The are drillet from early on for years. Most of the students hate them and try to avoid them, not practicing them at home. These fundamental movements are seen as waste of time, or as borring. But, what reallt they do for the hands and why good teachers so much insist on playing scales, chords and arpeggios in this same order?...

The importance of playing scales, chord inversions and arpeggios The scales, chords and arpegios are fundamental skill for each pianist. The are drillet from early on for years. Most of the students hate them and try to avoid them, not practicing them at home. T…

In the past, before the rise of electronic games, internet, smart phones and before the pandemic, it was a standard the children to start piano lessons when they are 5-6 years old. Some would start at 7 years old. What has changed? Children learned passivlely to be entertained. They just stare at a screen and expect things to be done for them, so they only consume the result....

Children, focus, and when to start piano lessons In the past, before the rise of electronic games, internet, smart phones and before the pandemic, it was a standard the children to start piano lessons when they are 5-6 years old. Some would start…