Believe it or not, I have a ton of “real” piano teachers using my method to teach adults how to play without suffering through years of lessons.
One of those teachers sounds off below about the bizarre state of the traditional teaching industry:
“I found your site on the internet as I was researching a book I’m writing on piano teaching. I’ve been interested for ages in how bizarre the current piano teaching methods are. For example: If someone wants to learn play a few chords on guitar so that they can strum out a few tunes, they go along to a teacher and – that’s exactly what they learn. However in that same situation but with piano, that person would go along with the idea to learn a few fun tunes and – get trained as if they are going to go on to be a concert pianist! I believe that this leaves people with a sense of failure. So I think the keywords I entered were “Piano, Failure” or something like that. However, I think you were a few pages down. Dan Robertson”
Piano Failure…
…yep, google that and I guess PianoFool comes up. Ironic. I think it must be from an article I wrote that had those words in it. Or it could be because my students are a bunch of previous “piano failures” who are now playing.
Either way there’s a trend I am noticing with traditional piano teachers.
They are starting to realize that it’s okay to teach a student based on what they want to accomplish with the piano.
Want to play a few chords and that’s it? Fine.
Want to learn to be Mozart? Fine.
Want to learn one song? Fine.
The good ones are realizing that there is no longer a ONE SIZE FITS ALL way of teaching piano.
Some students are going to start young and play classical music their whole life. Others are going to start late and play popular music and sing along.
It really doesn’t matter.
It’s all up to you and what you want.
You are the one in control.
It’s about time.
So…
…if you want to play classical and spend years in lessons, more power to you. Look up local piano teacher and start shelling out $20/half hour for the rest of your life.
But if what you want is to learn how to see songs differently, see patterns in the songs, and then have someone (IE ME) show you how to make them come alive on the piano… then The Layer Method is for you.
Be warned though.
It’s not cheap. It’s one of the more expensive programs online today. But it’s about $4,000 less than traditional piano lessons. So in context it’s one heck of a deal!
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