There are many benefits to piano lessons including enjoyment! Park Slope Music School never loses sight of keeping the love in music even as we help students develop and grow.
Students learn to read music and build a repertoire of music they can play while building solid skills in coordination, rhythm, playing in time and expression. We love to help students explore and find music that really inspires them.
Piano is a great instrument to start with as it is easy to get a sound out of right away. It can do anything from simple melodies to full arrangements. It is versatile and almost any style can be played on it. Piano is also a great tool for writing music, understanding theory and working out parts.
See Suzan’s blogpost on why piano is the best instrument to learn first:
Reading Music:
Students use our custom piano method series Treblemakers Piano Method to make reading easy and fun. Treblemakers Piano Method builds strong reading skills easily from the very beginning using strategies designed to take advantage of how the brain, memory and learning work.
Choosing Music:
Students build their own custom binder of songs they can play. We have a huge collection of piano arrangements to choose from at every level and style and are constantly adding new music as students make requests. Teachers help students choose music that they are excited about and that can help them grow. We are always happy to customize arrangements to fit student’s level and interests.
Building Solid Musical Skills:
Building a solid foundation makes it easier to pick up and play music right away. We have lots of great tools to keep it fun while working on the skills and knowledge students need. Using different activities to change it up during the lesson while still working with the same information is a great way to cement knowledge while slowly building attention span. Coming at the same information from different directions also helps build stronger links to recall the information quickly and easily. Some of the things we use are: duets, rhythm apps, digital quiz games, flash cards, rhythm cards, placing notes on a felt board staff and writing music on a whiteboard.