We are a Music School, dedicated to the teaching of piano with a
thorough understanding of the LANGUAGE of Music!
We do not just teach note by note! Why? That is comparable to teaching your child to SPELL a book rather than READING a book!
We have our own curriculum, with our college theory book done in acclerated learning format and we teach APPLIED THEORY which makes learning a song, far more usccessful, easier and retainable.
Not all music schools are the same, some teach the alphabet of music and we teach the language of music!
One of the things that really concerned Donna Cercone is the number of people just in the United States, who have taken piano lessons somewhere in their young years and who cannot play music in their adult years.
If we had the same statistics in the teaching of reading where many took reading lessons as a child but could not read as an adult, we would know we have a serious problem.
But in music, because it is sound and not a verbal language, we continued teaching the way we were taught with “poor results” becuase that it the way it has always been done.
But the interesting thing is – that is not the way it was done in the days of the great composers.
When the parents realized that their child wanted music or had a talent for it, the child was sent to a theorist (someone who teaches the language and grammar of music) and thus the child learned the language and hence we had many , many composers.
Mozart, Beethoven and others were sent to a theorist!!!
