Piano Lessons For Adults
Hello Everyone,
Quite often we find that older students can be somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of piano lessons for adults. Adults returning to the ‘world of learning and lessons’ must be treated differently than other types of learners. That is true whether you’re talking about history lessons or piano lessons for adults.
Adults, who have been removed from the ‘school’ environment, in some cases for decades, simply don’t have the will or patience to sit through traditional lessons or classes. Just the THOUGHT of anything related to school receives an immediate negative reaction from them. They thought themselves through with school and they DO NOT want to go back.
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What adults will tolerate, and in fact flock to, are self-paced, hands-on, and easy to understand ways to experiment and learn. When dealing with piano lessons for adults you’ll find they don’t want to have to go in and ‘dig’ the information out like the old days of school where they spent countless hours in the library researching some topic or other. In the case of music they don’t want to return to the seemingly endless hours of practice as they basically wander the wilderness of music alone and bored.
What they do want are courses that are well thought out and laid out in easily to understand ‘chunks’ that keep their interest. The word ‘interest’ is the operative word here.
I teach adult education regularly and when I start a new class I am always able to single out the students who are back in school for the first time in many years. They are apprehensive, nervous and frankly don’t smile much. The first thing I have to do is make them comfortable in order for them to have a chance at learning. Piano lessons for adults is no different. People are apprehensive in the beginning and you have but a short time to negate that.
On the other hand, teaching music to children is an entirely different ‘equation for success.’ Often their biggest obstacle is practice time. If they don’t put in the time practicing a child may have lessons imposed on them by a parent. The routine usually goes something like, “hey junior, I’m paying that piano teacher to teach you to play and your teacher can’t practice for you…so get in there and PRACTICE”. To which junior goes off and does his ‘time’ in the dungeon of the practice room because he has no other choice. That is usually turns out to be the big hurdle for kids.
While the children’s lack of practice is often overridden by the parent whereas in piano lessons for adults the adult learner has no one forcing the practice issue and has lots of other options to occupy their time other than with practice. So the course of instruction for the adult must be ‘INTERESTING’ and ‘FUN’ if they are to have a chance of continuing the lessons for any appreciable period of time. If they are to put in the time necessary to succeed then they need to see some success in recognizeable ways.
Enter adult learning courses; yes you can include piano lessons for adults too. These courses are designed to meet the criteria mentioned above PLUS the successful ones add one more component. It’s called activity based learning. There is a very good reason for this; you learn by doing.
The courses we review on another page of this site were selected for that very reason. We’ve seen thousands of students and KNOW what works and what doesn’t. You want a course that is engaging and fun that will show progress quickly and dramatically.
One such course that offers piano lessons for adults and children alike is Rocket Piano which is packed to the rim with quality step-by-step lessons, sound files, games and resources to keep the adult learner in the activity based learning mode for fast results you won’t achieve with traditional courses! We give it our highest rating because it combines giving you the activity based approach with good content.
While you’re at it have a look at our other reviewed courses offering piano lessons for adults. Depending on what you are wanting to do you can find several different approaches to style, music theory, presentation and length. Dive in a begin playing today. See you on stage!
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