When you first bring your piano, you’re likely to be very excited about your new purchase, and you should be! Buying a piano is an exciting investment in your future as a musician. But you must be careful not to make a common mistake and put it in a bad location. Here are five places where you should not put your piano.
These are applicable to both digital and acoustic pianos.
First we assume that you intent to hire a private piano teacher. Advantages of doing this over attending classes at a school are numerous. Most piano learners end up employing a piano teacher, and if you are serious, you should too.
Piano teachers have different approaches, but most piano instruction advances in grades, from grade 1 to grade 8. Books are labeled according to grades, but teachers often recommend additional books or songs tailored to specific student abilities and tastes.
Many parents are taking advantage of homeschooling opportunities to give their young children a solid academic foundation. Learning piano has so many benefits for children that homeschool parents want to give their kids this important musical foundation as well. If this is you, however, you may not realize how easy this is to do right in your own home. You don’t even need to hire a piano teacher, but you can if you want to.
Just as children need their parents to read to them and teach the alphabet, parents can also teach their young children the foundational “music Language” skills for piano or keyboard. If you can teach your child the alphabet, you can also give them an important foundation at home for learning to read music and understand keyboard theory. Even if your young children are already taking piano lessons, piano teachers don’t have time in a 30 minute weekly lesson to give kids the complete foundation they need to read music easily. But parents can. There are so many resources available online for parents who homeschool their children, and piano lessons are no exception. And you don’t have to do it alone. Enlist the help of your homeschool friends.