The supervising parent needs to take good notes during the child's lesson; especially to write down
1) The practise assignment
2) Specific details in remembering how to play and listen for the perfect natural tone
3) The fingering
Hint: For advanced notetaking, listen very carefully to identify the main Teaching Point of the lesson. (It could be something like a Stengthening the pinky tone, Light wrist staccato, High bounce staccato, Listening for tone geration and attenuation) The teacher is supposed to work on delivering a one point lesson (though sometimes it is hard to focus on that ONE thing).
Just a reminder that at the piano lesson, the teacher is teaching HOW to play piano, the skills and technique to play piano. That is more important than the repertoire or how many songs someone could learn in the shortest time. Repertoire is learned at home by listening to the CD, by practising with the correct fingering. It is never a race.
Future topic: Practising vs Just Playing Piano
I am a new Suzuki Piano Teacher with many years of experience teaching classical piano at the beginners and intermediate levels to children of all ages. I am creating this blog to capture some of my rough notes from teacher training, pedagogy books, workshops and experiences from my own studio. The earlier entries are taken from the lesson notes for the pre-Twinkle level class I had taught outside the formal Suzuki method. Your comments and feedback are most helpful. Enjoy!
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