Starting and practicing on keyboard and piano technique.

[musicrebel4u]

There is a myth among of many piano teachers that students ought to have acoustic piano – otherwise they won't learn piano technique properly. In fact, majority of my students have only keyboards at their homes and they all started on keyboard in my class.

After more then 15 years of teaching in the USA, several winners of piano competitions I came to conclusion, that piano technique is flourishing from sight-reading skills

, playing a lot of music and overall developing of 'music mind' of students. It takes 30 minutes a week at my lesson to get use to a weighted keys of digital or acoustic piano and to polish the pieces, which already learned and memorized on keyboard. 

Acoustic piano is a goal, but keyboard or digital piano is a tool for piano education, because it is giving a student the most valuable thing during the home practice – interactivity (if it is connected to computer, of cause)

Here some more samples of students who started with keyboards and keep practicing at home on keyboards:

I have much more videos, but I think that these are just enough. 

[Petter]

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[musicrebel4u]

Sign me up. I´ll buy 500. Here´s my CC number 43928432983429832948932849

[Petter]

Sorry, I just interpreted the original post like you were trying to sell us a concept of some sort. I apologize if this wasnt your intention.

[musicrebel4u]

Sorry, I just interpreted the original post like you were trying to sell us a concept of some sort. I apologize if this wasnt your intention.

Well, you're right: as a researcher and a musicologist I DO sell my discoveries to others. Wish it would help other teachers like me to avoid mistakes and wrong believes for their own benefits.