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Parent Complaint about Group Lessons

For those of you who teach mostly in groups, how have you addressed complaints from parents about group lessons and the student to teacher ratio? (Meaning they feel their child isn’t getting enough ‘piano time’ in their new group lesson)? I teach mostly small groups.…

Remembering Compositions

Below is an email from a parent. Any advice on strategies I could suggest? This student has been with me for about 6 months. He is in first grade and is moving through Foundation pieces at a just-under-average pace. I have noticed memory is an…

What is ‘Normal Progress’

In response to the following statement: “… It just seems wiser to wait until students can process almost a song a week…. Seems the intention of Simply Music is to have students playing right away…” Here is a paradox, and there is more to this…