Home
Piano Music
Piano Music Library
Audiovisual Study Tool
Search pieces
All composers
Top composers »
Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Debussy
Grieg
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Liszt
Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
Schubert
Schumann
Scriabin
All composers »
All pieces
Recommended Pieces
PS Editions
Instructive Editions
Recordings
Recent additions
Free piano sheet music
News & Articles
PS Magazine
News flash
New albums
Livestreams
Article index
Piano Forum
Resources
Music dictionary
E-books
Manuscripts
Links
Mobile
About
About PS
Help & FAQ
Contact
Forum rules
Pricing
Log in
Sign up
Piano Forum
Home
Help
Search
Piano Forum
»
Piano Board
»
Teaching
»
Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Topic: Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
(Read 2070 times)
skypert
PS Silver Member
Newbie
Posts: 19
Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
on: February 18, 2022, 11:40:54 PM
So, for the teachers out there, what are the worst things that teachers have to deal with when that self improver finally gets a teacher?
Logged
anacrusis
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 821
Re: Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
Reply #1 on: February 20, 2022, 04:47:39 PM
I don't have extensive teaching experience but have seen a lot of things all the same via other avenues. The worst thing to try to solve in a self learner is years of bad physical habits (movements or tension) that have become very ingrained. They are much harder to break than it is to learn the right technique from the start. It can take years of patient work.
Logged
winsto7
PS Silver Member
Jr. Member
Posts: 76
Re: Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
Reply #2 on: February 23, 2022, 01:20:02 PM
I happen to be one of the self-taught students rather than the teacher, but one of my worst habits and a pain for my teacher to fix was my fingering. That was a struggle for the first 6 months of lessons. I also found from experience that as a self taught pianist, no one teaches themselves scales, so that didn't help the fingering situation. I also found that I tended to progress faster than I should have which left me with a major gap (I can sightread almost anything, but don't have patience or technique to refine anything). Oftentimes I wanted to move on to the next thing without fully wrapping up the first and that caused a bit of a problem for a while.
Logged
skypert
PS Silver Member
Newbie
Posts: 19
Re: Worst habits when self taught students finally gets a teacher
Reply #3 on: February 24, 2022, 04:47:36 PM
Thanks for that. Something to keep an eye on. Impressed with your sight reading skills winsto7 too
Logged
Sign-up to post reply
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!
Search on Piano Street