is your piano teacher kind, strict laid back, evil?

mines strict/laid back/kind lol if you get what that means.

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luv sarah
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Mine is...uh...well...I guess... kind?
Well, she always is really nice, and keeps me going forward, and really thinks I'm her star. (Sorry for bragging!!) She and my mom are really good friends and we all do a lot of stuff together. I think my teacher is one of the "nicer" piano teachers, as I should put it.

~*liz*~

Mine's cool. But I'm his boss, which probably makes a difference.

My teacher is really nice. But to be fair she is my nan.

mine is very strange but really nice all the same!!!!

Nat

My teacher's the most amazing concert pianist! She has got a Steinway grand (£60,000+) and I have learnt sooooo much about general musicianship from her. I get on with her OK, but she's very upper class, and expects a lot. I couldn't be more different from her, but she is seriously good @ piano, and so I respect her.

We can't say anything horrible about them incase they read it....Not that I would want to of course. I haven't been going to mine all that long, but I think she has the right balance between keeping me on my toes and encouraging me.

d'ya think they do lol.

Do I think they read this? Maybe not but you can never be sure..... I wish now that I'd called myself by a more imaginative name.

Nobody in their right mind would realise that I am me anyway.

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Do I think they read this? Maybe not but you can never be sure..... I wish now that I'd called myself by a more imaginative name.

of course we do ............ how'd we find out otherwise what you all think of us LOL don't worry, none of my pupils is called Debbie


Maggie

nosy nosy nosy lol.
hmmmmm i wonder if my teach knows who i really am tum tum tuuuuum

myn teachrs rlly nice, shes taught me sinc i was 9 and we always have a good laugh together although at the same time shes a gr8 teacher and has taught me a lot and she doesnt let me get away wiv stuff she can be evil!!!
Only joking, shes the best i hope she duznt read this though!!

When I was about 17, I used an internet forum which my teacher used, without my teacher realising who it was. I gave them teaching advice for 4 months (which was then used in my lessons). Oddest experience of my life, like self teaching!

heh... lol davidmusic!!

My piano teacher is great, I've only had her about a year but she has helped me so much already, especially at sight reading. She's really kind and we chat about other stuff apart from music... heh... I don't want to write it on here because I know she comes on sometimes and wouldn't want her to know who I am!! lol... I guess from some of my posts it would be easy fr her to recognise who I was.... OK I better stop before I give something away

xx L xx

QUOTE (leasalonga @ Apr 12 2004, 05:47 PM)

She's really kind and we chat about other stuff apart from music... heh...

So do we, and that's even though we work together so have lunch together 3 times a week!

Actually it annoys me when we talk about other things, because the lessons cost me a lot.

my piano teacher is superly generous...i only hope i don't seem to be taking advantage of it.

while we do talk about stuff outside music, she doesn't use lesson time to do it and so far there hasn't been a single lesson that has stopped after an hour, she always extends.

guess i'm lucky!

Hi all,

Falling rain, my teacher is like this too.

I don't think you are taking advantage. If they couldn't or didn't want to run over , they wouldn't.

My lessons are always about 3/4 hour long and we end up chatting about other things.

I realise not all reachers can run over because of back to back lessons so we are really lucky to be able to do this !

You should tell your teacher this. My teacher went a little pink when I told him I had been on here (another post) singing his praises!

He was dead chuft though !

They need to know they are doing a good job too. I wouldn't be as good as I am if it wasn't for him.

Fiona

QUOTE (Fiona @ Apr 13 2004, 08:19 AM)

You should tell your teacher this. My teacher went a little pink when I told him I had been on here (another post) singing his praises!

Hehe!! Sweet!!

I've had my piano teacher for almost a year and though shes expensive(100 dollars for one lesson of one hour- she studied at RCM in the 1960s for five years under a pupil of Czerny), shes well worth the money.
I suppose the best teachers teach their students how to teach themselves- the trite old principle of "learning to catch the fish yourself". And this is exactly what she has done for me. When I first went to her after taking grade 8 on my own, i was a bundle of uncontrolled nerves- playing with little arm weight, collapsing finger joints, tense shoulders and tense arms resulting from a tense mind. The technical problems were pointed out to me one by one, with the first most important thing being relaxation of the mind when playing. She taught me the principles of arm weight(how the arm is like a dead thing- dead as in heavy and made me aware of the sensations of playing with arm weight. And then she prescribed Hanon for my collapsing finger joints and the weak third n fourth fingers. She's just so patient and reassuring, though quick to nip any bad habits in the bud.
She also stresses the important thing of REALLY listening to oneself when practising, whereupon i admitted that i'm lazy to do so at times. And of course the music essentially has to come from oneself, though the teacher is there to guide us along. I just started preparing for the dipABRSM piano performing with her a year ago, and one of the pieces is Beethoven's Moonlight. The "stillness" of the first movement is something which demands the utmost concentration and calmness of mind, and I'll always remember her words- that nobody can tell u exactly HOW to play it. Never once, has she stifled my own interpretation and told me the "correct" way to play any piece(perhaps I have some instinct of my own). She does chide me for uneven tone, for not using arm weight, for not concentrating. Really, she makes it seem like ANYTHING is possible as long as I concentrate 100%.
I suppose I have vexed her at times with my hangups of always being excessively self-critical and impatient with myself, to the extent that it seems ive got no trust in her. OH well, we dun pay money to our teachers so that we give them a good time.( just joking, im a teacher myself n i understand the multitude of frustrations) As usual, people who are really professional and experienced make it seem effortless, and that includes teaching.

hmm . . . neither laid-back/ur definition of "kind"/ "normal"

i don't know - she definitely knows stuff, n i'm glad that she's my teacher. not the sympathetic kind - but worth ur $ u learn to see music beyond the notes which is what i guess we're all after in the long-run . . .

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while we do talk about stuff outside music, she doesn't use lesson time to do it and so far there hasn't been a single lesson that has stopped after an hour, she always extends.

I guess im luck 2 then coz my piano lessons always go way way over 1/2 an hour. We always talk about stuff first rthen go over coz i havnnt playeed everything to her yet. Shre doesnt mind tho i dnt think. Its her who always talks. Im just glad shes not all strict and nasty!!!

my piano teacher alwayz talks to me about other stuff and my other instruments. she always puts the people she knows aren't going to turn up so in the end i get about 45mins to an hour lesson free!!!

Nat

heh... my piano teacher is great... though she does get carried away and talks for about 1/2 and hour more than my lesson (1 hr)... she hold concerts with the 200 other students she teaches and makes us perform in front of each other... then she gives out prizes and chocolate fish... it was great! I got "highest grade" award!! yay!!! ^^

my piano teacher is brill! funny and bright but makes me work!
Naomi xxxx