At WKMT we follow a very clear plan for our beginner's first lesson.
Are you suggesting that Spenstar use your plan when he teaches? (Not with the original student he asked about, ofc, since that was 9 months ago). Would a high school student be able to teach in this manner?
At WKMT we follow a very clear plan for our beginner's first lesson. You can check our brief athttps://www.i-am-a-spammer.com/single-post/2015/03/08/Our-first-piano-lesson-teachers-blog
Well, that was a diplomatic reaction. Unfortunately, I tend to be a bit more frank.
(original post) I'm a high school student who has been playing diligently for 10 years, so I started offering lessons for beginner and intermediate students. I arranged a lesson with a new student, but he is a 9 year old who has ever played. There's so much material to cover for beginners, Andy I'm not sure how much a kid could take in. So if anyone has any tips on the pinpoint of where to start or any tips for teaching children, that would be great!!
Elephants And Dinosaurs Grow Big Easily never fails and neither does Good Dogs Always Eat.
Your student *must* be able to leave that lesson playing more than just the first piece in Microcosmos, preferably much more and no Microcosmos at all.
If you have to choose between listening to Bartok's advise on how to progress with your piano studies from the scratch or a random piano teacher, who would you pay attention to?...
Bartok's school of playing was pretty percussive high fingers. Not at all suited to a modern pedagogy. My teacher knew him.
Do the things described in wkmt's link reflect Bartok's "school of playing" (what you described)? I'm also wondering - did Bartok himself teach beginners? I'm interested in learning things that I don't know.(I still don't know how that link is intended to help the high school student who has started to teach.)
Elissa Milne -- an amazing teacher and composer whose works are featured in the Australian system (ABRSM? something else?) One of the things she tries to do is to break past the narrow "Common Practice" type of music, diatonic, predictable chords and harmonies etc. The attraction of Bartok can also be explained within this context.
If Mr wk can't be bothered to summarize his method here then I can't say I can be bothered to visit his links. There's a piano tutor out there somewhere co-written by Bartok. It's got nasty finger raising à la Hanon. I teach the grade 8 Bulgarian Dance from Bk. 6.
Mr wk obviously knows the more sites that link to your site the higher up your rating at Google.
(One of the silliest things that still persists in modern pedagogy is the teaching of parallel scales.)