Greenhills Beach Piano Lessons – Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to travel anywhere for my piano class?

At Piano Lessons In Your Home, our tutors teach you in your own home, ensuring you don’t waste time stuck in Greenhills Beach traffic to get to your piano classes.

Do your piano teachers come to Greenhills Beach? And on which days of the week?

Please enquire for more information as well as for information on Saturday and Sunday piano classes.

Do I need to own a piano or keyboard?

We know pianos can be out of people’s budgets, that is why a budget keyboard is perfectly fine for beginners.

Introductory keyboards are an easy and affordable option for households without a piano.

When do you offer Greenhills Beach piano lessons?

We typically offer after school lessons, on weekday afternoons to evenings, our Greenhills Beach piano teachers are very flexible and will always try to accommodate the time that suits you best.

Weekend lessons are also readily available, please enquire for more information.

How old should my child be to begin piano lessons?

Children as young as five can begin learning the piano and basic music theory.

Our Greenhills Beach piano tutors are experienced in tutoring young children who are complete beginners, and have all the patience and personality needed to engage your child and give them best start in their musical journey.

What styles of piano music do you teach?

Our Greenhills Beach piano teachers are qualified to teach all styles of music, whether you’re interested in popular, contemporary, classical, jazz, musical theatre or even Nintendocore (yes, this is an actual genre). However, we encourage our students to explore all genres to show them just how interesting the piano can be.

Why enrol my child in one-on-one lessons? Why not Greenhills Beach group  piano lessons?

Group piano tutoring are a great way for your child to socialise, but that’s about where the perks end. One on One piano lessons ensure that your child won’t get left behind, and can learn at their own pace.

In personal experience, piano students learning in one on one lessons progress a lot quicker than students learning in group classes.

Am I too old to start learning to play piano?

NO! There is no set age to begin learning a musical instrument, and the best time to start is right this moment – ie Now!

Learn to play your favourite songs, learn how to read music, learn theory, or just about anything you’d like to know about the piano.

Playing the piano is a fun and great way to exercise your creative abilities so don’t just dream about it, start learning.

What are your Greenhills Beach piano tutors qualifications?

Only the best Greenhills Beach piano teachers work with our students.

Our piano teachers:

• highly experienced in teaching all ages and skill levels
• are experienced in playing the piano themselves
• have undergone a NSW Government certified “Working with children” police check
• are very friendly and patient to make students comfortable with learning at their own pace.

Typically students take piano classes once a week.

But if you just give me a minute of your time, I’ll tell you why that’s often not the best way to go.

I myself think the best way to response to this question is to look at the best of the best and see how often THEY took classes.

Some of the best pianists in the olden times likely had lessons on a daily basis. We will frequently find that major writers and pianists came from a musical family and their earliest coaches were often one of their parents. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven just to name a few had parents who were musicians and probably gave them day-to-day lessons.

Piano Rehearsal is NOT Sufficient

This is how weekly piano lessons should work. The tutor listens to what the student rehearsed in the previous week. The coach would then provide recommendations on how to develop or teach new concepts to improve the new pianist both technically and musically. From there, they may add some training tips and suggestions on what and how to train in the following week. The student would then train for a week according to the trainers suggestions and this would continue from week to week.

Sadly this is very rarely the way classes happen. This all concludes one very crucial thing. That the student actually rehearsed. Sadly more often than not the teacher will come to a lesson only to find that the student did not rehearse. Oh no! What does the trainer do now? Train with the student of course!

That’s what turns out if the student just did not rehearse, but unfortunately even if the student DID rehearse this might still be the outcome. Why? Because practicing is tough.

Why Practicing is Tough

Let’s think about what we’re requesting young children, perhaps as young as 5, to do. The best way to rehearse is to eliminate all diversions sit down at the piano and sort out on segments of music that the student cannot so far play.

Playing from the beginning of a piece is more often than not an inefficient use of time. Playing a minor section slowly and accurately is often a condition of good practice. Then repeating it over and over and over. Then they would need to pin point a different small segment they are not comfortable with and do it once more.

I’m done making things easier here, but the fact is to aid us know how challenging that is. How long should rehearse be? I would be happy with 15 minutes from a young child and 30 minutes from an older child. How many five year olds do you know that could concentrate effectively for fifteen minutes without getting diverted. Or even better, how many adults do you know that could do the same?

And yet teachers expect that type of train every week from their students. Realistically it is seldom if ever going to happen that way. But an interesting thing occurs when the coach is sitting there. You have the coach leading the student telling them what they need to train and how many times to repeat it. The tutors can put right bad habits and incorrect pose. These are things a young child, or even an adult would have a hard time doing in a focused way.

How Frequent Should Lessons Be?

For full success lessons should be held as frequent as possible. If a student can allow lessons daily, they’ll progress many multiples quicker than a student taking lessons once a week. It’s as straightforward as that. Most of the lessons will be the teacher just rehearsing with the student. But that practice is undeniably priceless.

Realistically

No not many of us can have enough money to take a lesson everyday with their trainer. Not only that, but not every person needs to become the next Mozart. So determining how frequent to take lessons really depends on your objectives. Contemplate about exactly what you’re looking for in lessons. Let’s describe some collective goals.

Ambitions for Piano Lessons

• Play one certain piece
• Play for my wedding
• Be able to play as a pastime
• Study serious as a lasting pursuit
• Make it a career

If your goal for piano lessons is just to play one piece, obviously lessons day-to-day really aren’t needed. You may really be able to even learn on your own!

A piano tutor will at all times be supportive and create the music sound the best it can. If fund is a problem though, see if you can discover a lecture of the piece on YouTube. If you never want to learn anything different, then it matters a lot less whether you are playing absolutely correctly or not.

Although this all changes if you want to, or you want your child to take this really sincerely. It doesn’t occur frequently, however I have a few students that would take an hour lesson three days a week, and then extra hour of music theory for a total of four hours a week of lessons. These students are at all times the finest.

You become what you put in. If you don’t take lessons very seriously, you won’t get as much delight out of lessons as if you put your whole heart into it. As a pianist I can tell you that the joy that comes from playing beautiful music is immeasurable. Don’t miss out!