Concerns about the current situation of piano education in China (original)

(If you don’t want to ruin your child’s future, please read it patiently (my space will be added regularly, please pay attention)

It is a good thing for children to receive a good art education from an early age. However, the comparison mentality of parents has given rise to the children's art training market. Various training institutions have sprouted everywhere, and some of them are misleading children. Those who graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, some said they were from the Central Conservatory of Music... refused to investigate, and the situation was purely deceptive. Some teachers may have gone to these schools for short-term training, so they claimed that they were graduates of a certain school. Standardizing management and educating parents on what kind of teachers they should choose are urgent matters.

1. ---------------What are the criteria for a good teacher? ? 1. We must look at the actual playing ability of the piano teacher (how can someone teach others if they are not good at playing themselves?) What is called playing well? To put it more simply, the first thing is technique (that is, the method of playing fast and not playing fast). There must be something wrong with it. The most common mistake parents make is that they have never seen their teachers play really big music. Many piano teachers can only give some simple demonstrations of 599 and 740. You must know that this is nothing. Children's music is all It's very simple. A qualified piano teacher must be able to play well, for example: Liszt's Rhapsody, Chopin Ballade, Concerto, Beethoven Sonata (Dawn, Pathetique, etc.), Bach's three creative works and above, etc. There shouldn't be a huge technical burden. Due to parents' ignorance of piano, they think the teacher is very good when they see her playing "For Alice", "Dream Wedding" and "Turkish March". In fact, these are all amateur level 6. The songs on the left and right do not reflect the teacher's level at all. As the saying goes, you are not afraid of not having good products, but you are afraid of comparison. Compare your teachers with pianists such as Lang Lang and Li Yundi. The closer the level is, the better. Such as Haydn, Clementi, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel and other classical, romantic and modern composers' works. 2. Of course, only technique without music is not a good performance. He must use first-class musicality and accurate analysis of the works to bring out the soul of the composer. 3. A good teacher must have excellent language expression skills and be able to teach in vivid language. Have a basic understanding of the history of music culture, and be familiar with the styles of various composers. 5. It is best to be a full-time piano teacher at a university (don’t trust those social educators). 6. Don’t think that those who graduate from a conservatory must be good at playing and teaching. Many people work very hard before entering the music school. After passing the exam, they think that everything will be fine and rarely practice piano for four years. Do you believe in the teaching ability of such people? Only those who continue to practice piano and study with teachers during college and even after working? , Only teachers who study well can be trusted.

2. --------------- Good performance by students does not mean good teaching by the teacher: A common trick used by many teachers is: I of students won the gold medal in a certain competition, so you should believe that I teach well. It sounds reasonable at first, but it’s not. First: Are the award-winning photos of students he showed really his students (some teachers borrow students from others). Second: Even if they are his students, how can they follow him? How many classes are there? Many piano teachers (especially in institutions) select "genius" children to give them free lessons, regularly introduce them to music school professors, and privately discuss with parents that they claim to be the students they brought up. Every time there is a major occasion, students are asked to perform to showcase the institution's teaching achievements. This phenomenon abounds in the entertainment industry. When a celebrity becomes famous, many people spring up overnight across the country claiming to be the celebrity's teacher. Some people may have taught her before, while others may be his mentor.

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4. --------------- Institutions and piano teachers are too good at packaging themselves: Celebrities generally have no sense of social responsibility and use their reputation to open centers across the country , the actual teaching situation is not monitored at all. As long as the franchise institution pays the franchise fee every year, it controls the level of teachers it recruits. The economic account is very clear: if you recruit good teachers, the class fee will be high, and the institution will earn less. Instead, it is better to recruit some people with poor skills and no jobs, use the relationship of the organization to take photos with various celebrities across the country, and package it up by saying that a certain pianist provides regular guidance to the central teachers, and the teacher’s teaching level has been praised by the master. Praise, this is a commercial society, everything can be run as long as you have money. It is very similar to celebrities shooting advertisements. As long as you give money, the big names don't care whether the thing they endorse is true or false. As long as they smile, Gold dollars add sweetness, reach out and don’t hit someone with a smiling face. Masters often don’t criticize other people’s face. They take a photo, write a message, mention a word, a certain master visited a certain piano store and gave the institution a very high evaluation, etc. Everything went smoothly and it appeared in the official report (Nowadays, you only need to pay to publish an article, and newspapers don’t care about your authenticity. No one has trouble with money). I have been to most institutions in Dalian. I am very proud of the Dalian piano industry. Most of them are... They are students of several leading piano educators in our country. Their intimate group photos are as harmonious as a family, which makes me deeply "envy". There are only dozens of piano education masters, but there are hundreds of thousands of piano teachers. If these people all have long-term Study with the masters (the masters are afraid of being exhausted). The actual situation is that you have only taken one lesson, or even none. The purpose of visiting is to take a photo. Do not go to an institution to learn piano, such as the one you choose. The teacher pays 100 yuan a day. If you give the money to the institution, they basically get 50 yuan, and the teacher can only get 50 yuan. But when you actually go to the teacher’s home, all the 100 yuan belongs to the teacher. What does this mean that the teacher’s students are too busy? There are only a few people who can only go to institutions to be exploited in their spare time. Why are there so few students? That’s why the poor parents’ money is divided between two groups of people. The consultant's teaching level is usually pretty good. The first reason for hiring him is that he also teaches, and the tuition fee is very expensive, because the price for raising students at home is the highest in the local area, such as 200. In this institution, It is usually 300 (the institution has to earn part of it). Purpose 2: Pretend that the expert will train the teachers of the center for a long time and lead them to conduct scientific research. In fact, people who can get to this level have no time to do this work, even if the teaching and research is at most once a month. , has little effect on improving the level of teachers in the center. In addition, don’t think that older people must be more authoritative. I graduated from the piano department of Wuhan Conservatory of Music. After graduation, I returned to my hometown of Hefei. Since I was born and raised here, I know all the local school-running groups well. , and is also familiar with the teaching level of the so-called local experts. From the perspective of our music school, the method is too problematic. In provinces like Anhui Province that do not have music schools, it is difficult for the piano education level to be in line with international standards. There are only a few music schools. It is difficult for those who come from a college to support the entire education market. Most talented students are deceived by institutions. Strong teachers can only accept mediocre students. Students with poor quality cannot produce results no matter how good their teachers are. If the vicious circle continues, institutions will become worse and worse. Strong, the stronger, the more attractive. . . . . .

5. ------------- Various groups and training institutions are collaborating: At present, more and more units make a living by organizing competitions, and the ratio of gold and silver awards in many competitions is as high as 30 , as long as you participate, you will receive an excellence award. It is called encouraging children, but in fact, it is because you are afraid that you will not come back next time, or that you feel that your child has no talent and will not learn. How ridiculous. Gold and silver medal players receive nothing more than a certificate, and the total cost of a medal is less than 8 yuan.

The registration fee for players is as high as 200---300, and various training institutions are willing to cooperate with them. Whichever institution sends more people will get a higher proportion of gold and silver awards. Some people may say that the competitions I participate in are all international competition divisions. , why is it irregular? As everyone knows, as long as the hosting fee is paid, the proportion of the gold medal awarded is not decided by the organizer. And then putting the winning photos of these contestants in their center will undoubtedly deceive most lay parents. Many parents think that their children have won a gold medal. It’s amazing, but I didn’t know that only when I took the exam for the high school attached to the conservatory of music did I realize that the level was far different. Of course, if a child can be admitted to the high school affiliated to the conservatory of music, it does not necessarily mean that his teaching is good (the admission to the conservatory of music also depends on connections). Those who do not rely on connections are the real ones. Good (this is difficult to supervise, no one admits that they have found someone). I am not against children participating in competitions. It is a good thing for children to get exercise in competitions. I remind you to pay attention to the gap between your children and others. Don't just focus on the medal, it has too much moisture.

Almost all the bosses of large-scale training institutions are people in their 40s. Most of these people were majoring in music education back then (because it was very difficult to enter a music conservatory in those days) and received piano education. It is extremely superficial, coupled with the fact that they have been busy with the daily affairs of the institution over the years, most of them have neglected piano practice. Their congenital deficiencies and acquired calcium deficiency have made them become more and more distant from the art of piano and gradually become "businessmen". However, this group of people has rich social experience and is the core of New China. The founders of the first batch of institutions have extensive social connections and have ambiguous relationships with so-called government agencies such as the local Youth Palace, Music Association, Song and Dance Theater, etc. They want to be honored by "awarded by a certain people's government as an outstanding social school institution" and other honors. It's so easy. As a result, their centers are often dazzling, with all kinds of honors covering the walls. It's so confusing that parents can't even move their legs after looking at it, so they often pay several months of tuition fees in a hurry. They often rely on their own reputation to be very impressive, and their tuition fees are often the same as those of university professors: (150-----200) Parents generally have abnormal psychology. First, they think that the more expensive the better, and second, they think that the older the teacher, the better. , The third is that the more gorgeous and larger the center, the better. When it comes to children's palaces and song and dance theaters, don't think that they are run by the government and can be trusted. In fact, they are currently contracted by private parties, and the boss has the final say as to what kind of teachers they use.

6. ---------------- Various art schools mislead students: let’s talk about the best art schools first, such as provincial art schools and city art schools. Don't think that because they are public schools, they are very formal. In fact, 1. The school is smoky, with puppy love, online games, and gambling prevalent. It's like a gangster. 2. Most of the teachers in this kind of school are recruited through connections. Most of them are playboys who were idle when they were studying at the music conservatory. No real talent or learning. Teachers who have no connections but have real talents often lament such a good job, and private art schools cannot even consider it. The office has a wall full of lists of students who have been admitted to the conservatory of music over the years. They are all fake. The principal knows that no one I'll check it out, it's not illegal. I don’t know why so many people believe it

7. ----------------Don’t learn the electronic piano: Piano has its own specific requirements for hand shape, fingering, etc. It will be very laborious when the time comes to change it

Yang Jun, Director of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, talks about the current situation of piano education in China: An excellent piano teacher must have many years of experience and loyalty to this cause. I think he is a qualified piano teacher. There are so many children learning piano now, and I also believe that there are a large number of unqualified teachers teaching there, and some even mislead the students. Some of them start teaching without even knowing the key points of knowledge required on the staff, which is confusing. It hurts. It is actually possible to teach in large numbers. I think this phenomenon is serious. Don't think that I bought a piano today, then randomly found a teacher to learn from it, and then hoped that the children would achieve great results. Children who do not receive wrong guidance are much easier to teach than those who receive wrong guidance. We should take good care of children, especially these piano students, and provide them with a healthy and correct learning environment.

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The purpose of this article is to attract the attention of conscientious colleagues, to expose the shortcomings of China's piano education, and to promote righteousness. For the sake of parents, and more importantly, for the poor piano children, they have studied with certain teachers for many years and only want to enter the music academy. I spent my precious teenage years in the illusion of passing the exam and winning the gold medal in the competition. I thought everything would go as planned, but I failed miserably in the piano exam of the Conservatory of Music. After more than ten years of hard work, the hope, hard work, and sweat of my family , money, everything is in vain. I believe that most parents do not have the attitude of spending money to let their children learn to play, but just learn and see. If the child is very talented and progresses faster than other children, then whether to pursue a professional path However, if you choose the wrong teacher, your child’s level will remain stagnant for a long time, and you will mistakenly think that your child has no talent. How sad. I remind parents again: “Don’t look at the advertisements, but look at the efficacy.” In addition, what I said above The sentence is true and not exaggerated. The phenomenon referred to applies to the whole country. I am no longer in Hefei, and there is no need to benefit myself at the expense of others