We’d made a wrong turn again. It was only our second time driving to our new church building, and the quickest path meant taking all back roads. Wanting to test our navigation skills we decided to go GPS free and see how well remembered our route. Luckily we only made two wrong turns and made it to church on time, barely.
It was on this trip that my Simply Music Piano training really sunk in. We are told that by seeing “routes” in your hands, learning piano could be as simple as learning a new route to your local supermarket. Just like driving, sometimes we can make a few wrong turns but with practice we easily remember even the most complicated routes. And hence, with training, we can play and remember the even hardest pieces of music.
I am not a concert pianist. Like a lot of people I took lessons as a child, but I didn’t start taking piano seriously until I was introduced to Simply Music about a year ago. So I am still filled with unspeakable delight when I learn a new piece of music through the Simply Music program. Sometimes I think, this has to be magic, I’m not really playing that song am I? I am blown away by how easy it is to pick up. With most songs, I’m playing flawlessly and rhythmically after only a few minutes.
Obviously some songs are harder than others, just as some paths that you drive are harder to memorize. But after learning and teaching Simply Music I fully believe that if you can memorize your path to work and can walk and talk in a rhythmic fashion, then you can learn to play piano. And in less than half the time of traditional piano lessons.
I would like to share one more story story.
One weekend I was training for a company called LEMI (they teach parents how to be good mentors to their children) On the first day I met my co-trainer, she was ultra-petite with a straight-as-straw white bob, and boney fingers that looked like they were born on the piano. And they might as well have been because she was a FABULOUS pianist. She could pick up any sheet of music and play it perfectly on her first go. In fact she went to school for piano pedagogy (the study of learning how to teach Piano).
She belonged to one group of people who, when I tell them about Simply Music, seem to be insulted by even the idea of the method. These people are fellow Piano teachers (not all but a lot). I get it, they have spent their life learning one way. And when I come in and say I’ve got this great new method they essentially feel like I’m personally attacking them. So understandably when I told this lady that I was opening a piano studio, she froze up, shut down, and tried to changed the conversation.
I, however, am a talker and through the weekend I shared my passion for music and the piano, and she watched me teach and the training, and I watched as her opinion of me slowly evolved.
On the last day I asked her to share one thing she learned while getting her piano pedagogy degree and she said in a quiet voice that perfectly fit her petite frame “Really good pianist, make really crappy teachers. You’re a really great teacher, you are going to have an amazing studio.”
I like to think of myself as a coach. I know where the students have been, and I have a mentor who is a fabulous piano who is leading me. With his great method and my teaching skills, I believe, as our slogan states, that we have created “The best way to learn piano. Period.”
I’d like to thank Macaroni Kid for featuring me on their email list. For those who would like to enter, we will be giving away a free month of lessons.
For more information on our method please visit http://www.pianopossible.com/index.php/introduction
The first lesson is always free. Classes are available Thursdays and Fridays. Call 502-653-9911
We have a winner! Congratulations Jessica Hasken!
Want to win a free month of lessons? Just leave me a comment here with what song you would like to learn how to play!
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