The Recital did prove motivating for everyone. So did the movie theme. Everyone had their pieces down, my son included. Now we are post recital. It is nice to move on to new things, and now I need to figure out what my students still need to learn. Being trained in teaching as well as in piano gives me some needed skills as a piano teacher. However, I have not had any formal training to be a "piano teacher." It leaves me wondering what there still is to learn for myself and what there still is to teach my students. Here are some things I have learned about piano:
1. It is more than technicalities. When you play with feeling, that's when you touch lives, including your own. There are different ways to play. People are disappointed when you accompany an upbeat song really slow and quiet. However, depending on the way you play a song, you can turn an upbeat song into a lullaby. Maybe that would be a fun thing to try. Give each person a simple song to play a specific way (in the manner of the adverb): peacefully, angrily, happily, sadly, etc....
2. When you accompany someone, you have to be able to follow the singer/conductor. That would be a skill we could work on. They play, but they have to keep their eyes partly on me to follow what I am doing with my hand.
3. Playing the melody louder than the others parts.
Those give me some ideas for the next little while. It's amazing what good a little bit of reflection will do. We can focus on accompaniment skills for a while.
1. It is more than technicalities. When you play with feeling, that's when you touch lives, including your own. There are different ways to play. People are disappointed when you accompany an upbeat song really slow and quiet. However, depending on the way you play a song, you can turn an upbeat song into a lullaby. Maybe that would be a fun thing to try. Give each person a simple song to play a specific way (in the manner of the adverb): peacefully, angrily, happily, sadly, etc....
2. When you accompany someone, you have to be able to follow the singer/conductor. That would be a skill we could work on. They play, but they have to keep their eyes partly on me to follow what I am doing with my hand.
3. Playing the melody louder than the others parts.
Those give me some ideas for the next little while. It's amazing what good a little bit of reflection will do. We can focus on accompaniment skills for a while.
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