what is your teacher's method/approach ?

[ylling]

I have been dying to find out  this, what is your teacher's methods in teaching piano ?
Does he/she demo the new pieces before letting you try on it ? does she play along with you (an octave higher) to check on the accuracy of your notes ?

Once had a teacher who insisted the students getting 100% notes accuracy ( no slip, no stopping in the mid of a piece ) before she goes into dynamic ( p. ff, etc.) Does your teacher teaches the same or similiar way? :-/

[schnabels_grandson]

My teacher will only demonstrate a piece if I ask him to or if I consistently fail to play it right.   He used to play along an octave higher when I was a beginner but once I learned how to sight read well,  he stoped.  About accuracy and dynamics; if I am memorizing a piece, he has me play it without focusing on the dynamics until it is memorized.  After it is memorized and can be played smoothly, we add dynamics.  If i'm just learning a piece for "fun" it doesn't matter to him if I slip a little and we use dynamics.

[ylling]

Thanks for sharing .
My new teacher does not demo new pieces, i am to sight read for her, and when i come back for 2nd lesson, she will guide me to add dynamic in the appropriate places. I think this works very well, because i get to feel the up and down of a piece, not so bore as when i was asked to play only the notes.

[leemay001]

My teacher, well... he doesn't seem to like classical pieces and that's more my style. He likes to go along with blues and jazz and some latin styles. And he likes to take over and play the piece over and over before letting me even touch the keys.
   He says that he's "letting me understand that rythm" or something like that and waistes most of the lesson. I think I'm going to get a new teacher soon and some extended lessons would be great. Although I might try to push him into letting me work on classical pieces first.
   Well that's my teacher summed up for ya.
       ~Lee~

[BoliverAllmon]

My teacher usually plays through the piece first to see if I like it. If I don't then we will find something else. Dynamics don't come until later. One thing that she does is in her studio she has two grand pianos. She will play on one piano to show me how to do something. Then I will try to imitate her.

boliver

[eddie92099]

One thing that she does is in her studio she has two grand pianos. She will play on one piano to show me how to do something. Then I will try to imitate her.

Very dangerous,
Ed

[BoliverAllmon]

why dangerous? I am a very visual person. It helps when she talks about the different technical aspects of pieces. I am not learning every aspect of the piece from her playing.

boliver

[eddie92099]

Then you aren't trying to imitate her,
Ed

[BoliverAllmon]

not really, I guess. I remember I couldn't get the concept of having my pinky push my hand up to the next position (can't think of a better term) until I saw her do it. I see rhythmn and timing better also.

boliver