06/10/2025
Simply Music Piano: I teach in person and online, groups and private. We have students of all ages playing great-sounding music in several different musical styles including Classical, Blues, Contemporary, Accompaniment pieces, etc. Our hands-on approach allows students to quickly build a large repertoire of music in their first year. We allow students to be creative and encourage them to arrange and compose based on the tools they are learning.
How is this program different? Traditional programs often start with teaching students how to read music as a means of learning how to play the piano. In that environment, students ability to decode all the symbols on the page completely dictates their ability to play. This can and often does have long lasting negative consequences. This reading-based approach to learning to play the piano can feel unnatural, especially to young children. We did get to talk for years before we ever learned to read and spell. This is a normal and natural process that we can also be apply to learning music (a language). So in Simply Music Piano, we do not apply a reading-based approach as means of learning how to play. Instead we *temporarily* delay the reading process and immerse the students in the process of playing. This is a completely and profoundly different experience! It is a more natural way to learn music. The results are that in a few short months students are already playing contemporary, classical, blues, accompaniments pieces, composing and improvising, all kinds of musical styles.
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