Music Methods and Theory
In our field of piano teaching there are dozens of outstanding methods. We're continuously seeking or being alerted as to the latest in print. No one teacher dictates what the others should use. We act as in-house for advisers when needed, and meet one or two times a week to discuss our students and how they are progressing. This special time serves at a perfect time to pick up new ideas.
Rather than having one method chosen for all the students
and enforcing them to use it, we put each child first, and according to what works best is what we use. Besides the most well known ones in our libraries, (Alfred, Faber, Bastien, Thompson, Schirmer, Carl Fisher, Music Tree, Schaum, Pace, Ahearn, Waxman, Agay, Suzuki, Orff) we have a 50 year collection of many other methods. They are supplemented according to the student's preference with hundreds of books of jazz, popular, classical and modern, broadway shows, technique, seasonal selections, duets, new age, blues, oldies etc.
Theory and technique are introduced at each lesson in accordance to the level of which the student learning. A most important factor is that whatever is being played, it must be musical: even if it's a 2-note phrase.
