I´m new on this forum, so this is the first time I write something, just hoping to get some advice from the teachers who are member of pianostreet.
I have been playing the piano since I was about 6 years old. Because my family has been moving around a lot, my piano playing and piano lessons were often interrupted. As a child I didn´t enjoy nor hated to play the piano. My mother just wanted to discover her children´s talents and encouraged us to join in with a lot of things, one of it was playing the piano.
As a teenager I started to love piano playing and had a very nice and good teacher. Moving to another country at the age of 16, I worked during summer holidays to safe money to buy a piano and with the help of my parents was able to do so. So during secondary school I had piano lessons almost most of the time. After that my piano playing was interrupted again, because my study was a very demanding one and I didn´t have the time to take any lessons, unfortunately. After I finished my study my personal situation allowed me to play and take lessons again. During this time I played a lot and was able to reach level 8. When my personal circumstances changed, I had to stop taking lessons because my work took to much time. However I continued to play without any guidance.
10 years ago I got health problems and had to stop working. But unfortunately, it was not only that I was not able to work, but playing the piano was impossible too. So for 10 years I didn´t touch the piano at all. I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Now, being a lot older and after moving to another country again, I found a doctor who gave me some medication, which gives me energy to function a lot better during the mornings. So now I´m able to play again, but only during the mornings. I feel so grateful for this and started to take lessons again and found a really good teacher.
After teaching me for 3 months, he told me that he has problems teaching me because he can´t find my "equilibrium". Because of the language barrier from both sides (both his and my English is not so very good and we always have a dictionary at hand during the lessons), I can´t understand what he means by this "equilibrium" expression. I can understand that it is difficult for him to teach me, because me myself don´t know anymore what I can or cannot play. I only noticed that I´m not at level 8 anymore, but maybe more between level 6 and 7. Also a lot of mistakes in the way I play has crept in, which he tries to correct. During the last lesson he has asked me to help him by finding my equilibrium so he can teach me in a better way. He was a bit desperate. Both he as a teacher and me as a pupil are very motivated. I thought that by taking lessons all my problems will be resolved. Little do I know about teaching!
My question now is, can any of the teachers who are member of pianostreet help us? Does anybody understand the problems my teacher has? Can anybody explain to me what "equilibrium" in pianoplaying means? Does anybody has suggestions or advice for me? I can understand that my situation is a bit exceptional for a teacher. So now I´m only hoping for help from other teachers.
Any advice, suggestions or comments would be appreciated very much. I would be very grateful for any kind of help from anybody. Thank you so much in advance!