“My child doesn’t want to practice, should we stop lessons?”
Many parents want to respect their children’s decision, hence ask their children if they want to continue learning the piano. The answer is easy to predict.
If someone asks, ”do you want to go to work or just stay at home watching TV?” My answer is definitely the latter.
“Memorisation vs Sight-Reading”
Excellent sight-readers are unlikely to play music from memory, likewise, good memorisers take longer time to sight-read. (Williamson, 1999).
Both memorisation and sight-reading skills are crucial to the development of musical skills, as one compliments the other. Many students/parents would often ask: ”My child always play from memory, is this bad?”, or “Why do I always forget…
“How playing an instrument benefits your BRAIN.”
Many students think of piano pracFce as hours of finger calisthenics because they were never taught the proper definition of technique. The reality is that you are improving your brain when learning piano. You are actually making yourself smarter and improving your memory; this is why learning piano correctly has so many benefits, such as success in school, the ability to beJer cope with everyday problems, and the ability to retain memory longer as you age.
“How to read music.”
There are characters and words in language, just like music has notes and phrases. Music scores notates every details to be played and conveys meanings and thoughts of composers. It can be daunting at start, but once your familiarise with the system and memorise the individual characters, you begin to decode the immense meanings that music can express.
“The new way of education - “Become Autonomous Learners.”
“Autonomous learning” refers to the ability of taking responsibility for what to learn and how to learn. In our era where information and knowledge are updated ever faster, learners' autonomous learning ability becomes important and is even regarded as one of the key factors to pedagogical success and lifelong learning (…