Teaching creativity attracts and retains students

[bradley sowash]

If you've seen the weekly television series “The Piano Guy” on PBS, you know that Scott Houston and I are two pianists with the simple message that playing piano should be fun.

Together, we have developed a new on line teacher training course to show classical piano teachers how to integrate a creative, chord style approach into their lessons.

Topics covered include: how to interpret chord symbols and position them on the piano, how to play left-hand self-accompaniment patterns and how to generate spontaneous right-hand melodies.

We wish to emphasize that our approach is intended to supplement rather than replace traditional pedagogical methods as reflected in our mission statement: “Our ultimate goal is to develop well-rounded, lifelong pianists who are as comfortable reading traditional grand staff notation as they are interpreting lead sheets.”

More information is available at
https://bradleysowash.com/educatio.htm
or
https://teachers.scotthouston.com

[jpianoflorida]

funny that NO ONE has responded to this one...    ok, I'm not going to give an opinion either.

[Bob]

Looks like another book on jazz piano.

[pianowelsh]

Dont like the look of their material BUT they pinched my mission statement. PIANO SHOULD BE FUN and the students should be lifelong learners and versatile. Im always saying this.

[jpianoflorida]

yes  ...IT SHOULD BE FUN ...      "have fun while learning" is in my brochure as a mission statement.         I think anything can be useful in teaching, what I have a problem with is I once saw someone say while teaching one of these courses  "piano teachers , don't listen to this, blah blah, and then said that figering didn't matter-that you would get the same sound no matter what, then he proceeded to try to demonstrate.

[lenkaolenka]

Piano and music learning should be fun and based on science. You created another gimmick approach.
You need more education, because you method is engaging at the beginning, but lead people to a dead end.

[jpianoflorida]

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