Nowadays, more and more people are learning piano. Piano educators are also emerging one after another with the wide range of enrollment in art colleges. The "piano craze" is in full swing in recent years. The land of China continues to prosper. Between teaching and learning, how to better choose a suitable piano teacher has become a confusing question for most people. So? What are the ways to choose a piano teacher? Below I have compiled the methods for choosing a piano teacher for your reading and reference.

Method 1 of choosing a piano teacher: Where to find a good teacher?

Generally speaking, professional piano teachers work in conservatories, art colleges and art departments. A small number of piano teachers are engaged in freelance piano teaching work. Therefore, to find a more professional piano teacher, it is best to look for full-time piano teachers in colleges and music conservatories. Not every city across the country has music conservatories and art academies that specialize in cultivating musical talents. There is only one of the nine major music conservatories in the country per every province and region, and the remaining art academies and art departments of universities are more or less different according to the regional conditions. In addition to these areas, full-time piano teachers in some urban art centers or professional piano educators graduated from music conservatories are also good choices.

However, in recent years, the large number of piano students has emerged, which has brought huge business opportunities to piano teaching. There are also many piano teachers who pretend to be fake. Some of them are music teachers from primary and secondary schools and kindergartens randomly recruited by a certain music store or irregular art center, or students majoring in music at a certain college or university. There are also some amateurs who have studied music or piano who are teaching piano! These people have greatly disrupted the market norms of piano education, causing some musically gifted students to lose good learning opportunities, and some have caused irreparable losses to students throughout their lives! Professional piano educators recommend: Before choosing a teacher It is best to understand some basic information about piano teachers first. It is best not to use full-time piano teachers who have not received professional training. This is the first key to ensuring the quality of student learning.

The second way to choose a piano teacher: We are just learning piano for amateurs. Is it necessary to find a professional piano teacher for formal teaching?

This is the current situation of amateur piano learning. Piano players often encounter problems when choosing a piano teacher for the first time. The purpose of most of them learning piano is to cultivate their temperament, develop their intelligence, acquire an additional skill, hone their will, broaden their horizons, and gain extra points for further studies. A small number of parents prepare their children with "a red heart and two hands" to cultivate them. They may be able to embark on a path to professional piano study. Well, most people who learn piano only come with the mentality of amateur learning, especially in the early stages of learning piano. The author has heard this point of view many times: We only think that it is very simple to teach piano at the beginning, and any music teacher can teach us. When the skills are higher, we can change to a better teacher. Besides, good piano teachers are generally not cheap. As everyone knows, such a view will cause lifelong regret for some learners.

I am engaged in professional piano education, and soon I discovered that many kindergartens and art centers generally offer small piano classes, but the learning situation of most children is not ideal. Originally, early childhood music education is very beneficial to the cultivation of children. However, because some kindergarten teachers have low or unprofessional piano education standards, our survey found that children who take group piano lessons in kindergartens or art centers 92% of them have many shortcomings: poor hand shape, no sense of music, difficulty in recognizing staff, and extremely lack of music theory knowledge... These have laid serious hidden dangers for them to further study piano in the future. If not corrected in time, their piano learning career is likely to come to an end.

There are also some piano teachers or art students whose low professional standards may hinder the development or progress of students' musical talents. As the "grade examination craze" becomes more and more intense, many piano teachers "comply" with the market requirements and blindly raise the level of students to show their "ability". Some parents even compete with the children of relatives and friends on how fast they are taking exams, which worsens the situation. But is this kind of pushback good for real piano learning?

Whether you are an amateur piano student or a student who wants to develop professionally in the future, it is necessary and necessary to find a professional piano teacher for guidance. Teachers can develop different teaching plans and difficulty levels based on the different purposes of personal piano learning to maximize students' musical potential.

Method three for choosing a piano teacher: How do we choose between old piano teachers and young piano teachers?

Generally speaking, old teachers have rich teaching experience. Most of his teachings are rigorous and serious, and they are worthy of learning by some young teachers. However, due to physical limitations, some old piano teachers have become less flexible in their fingers, so they provide fewer demonstrations to students, which brings many disadvantages to piano teaching. The difference between piano learning and other cultural subjects is that teachers demonstrate as much as possible, especially in the initial stage of piano learning. Students have to learn from one example. Sometimes it is better to demonstrate once than to say it a hundred times. Young piano teachers with solid basic skills have obvious advantages in this regard. It can be said that demonstration performance is one of the criteria of a good piano teacher.

Some students are very naughty. If a strict teacher is effective in teaching children, then an experienced teacher will be a good choice. However, some students are timid or not very cheerful by nature. Perhaps a young and active teacher will make the children feel friendly and the teaching progress will be smoother. Choosing a home piano teacher for your child is a close contact between the private teacher and the family. Try to let the students actively participate in the teacher selection as much as possible. Choose a home teacher you like. If you like him or her, it will be easier to accept. And love the knowledge he***she*** teaches. This is also one of the keys to choosing a teacher.

Method 4 of choosing a piano teacher: How to know the teacher’s teaching quality?

Generally speaking, the content of piano lessons is divided into several categories: explanation of music theory knowledge; piano etudes Explanation and demonstration guidance of , polyphony, sonatas, and music; knowledge of music history and explanations of the styles of musicians in various periods, etc. Amateur or unsatisfied piano teachers sometimes even rarely teach polyphony and sonatas, and only explain them in exams. As for the grasp of music theory and music style, many teachers’ piano lessons involve very little or even no content. Especially for amateur piano learning at the intermediate and advanced levels, the handling of music style and the grasp of the genre of each writer’s works are very difficult. Some learners don't feel it. Many people think that as long as the skills are good and the fingers are flexible, the performance is good. In fact, this is just an introduction to piano playing. Most amateur piano teachers require students based on this evaluation standard. Therefore, many outsiders mistakenly believe that such a performance is perfect.

Music, as a branch of art, like other branches of art, requires everyone to express their own unique understanding. As a piano player - the creator of the second dimension of music, you should understand the composer's meaning in the score as much as possible, and then pass it on to the listener through your own understanding. It is very important to understand originality in the second dimension. This requires our piano teachers to explain the writer's composition style. More importantly, it is necessary to have one's own understanding and reinvention, which is what people often call the individuality of art. Music without personality is lifeless, and imitation can only turn people into sad tools for reading music! Therefore, a good piano teacher should try his best to guide and explore each student's different understanding of music, rather than blindly teach step by step Students imitate. A good piano teacher should be able to mobilize every sensory cell of the students and make the music full of expressiveness.

Piano learning should only be a window for us to open the door to art. If you open the window and look at it, you will see that the style changes throughout the historical periods of the entire art category are generally uniform. Starting from learning the piano and understanding music, painting, poetry and other art categories by analogy, students will have a good artistic accumulation in the entire art study. This important task is worthy of continuous efforts and exploration by each of our piano teachers.

To find a good and suitable piano teacher, if possible, you can observe the class and use the above criteria to judge. I believe you will have a piano teacher who is a good teacher and friend.

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