previous experience

I have just had a call from an adult student with 10 years traditional background as a child, who, since seeing more advanced students playing at the my first recent piano concert, she is eager to get ahead and move faster with the program, feeling…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• accompaniment, adult students, advanced students, arrangements, comp and improv, composition, group lessons, previous experience, traditional background

I have just taken on a student with 6 years traditional experience. She’s 13. Her mother says that getting her to practice and attend her traditional lessons was becoming a bone of contention within the family and she is rebelling. She basically hates piano and…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, comp and improv, keeping them interested, previous experience, reluctant students, teenagers, traditional students

I have a couple of teenagers (16 and 17) that have years of previous experience and have been with Simply Music since summer ’09. They both catch on easily and are wonderfully capable of going forward.  However, neither of them are keeping their playlist alive and…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• life coaches, Playlist, practice, previous experience, prior experience, teenagers

I have an adult student who has been SO keen and enthusiastic and constantly comes back saying that he has gone further into the video, and taught himself, pieces we have not covered yet. I have explained a few times that this is not acceptable.…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• claiming territory, coaches, moving ahead on video, Playlist, previous experience, Robin Keehn, shared lessons, students, trusting the method

I have a student named Karen that is 63 and is in a group with 2 other women. All of them have prior experience, and things are going well.  We are in the middle of level 2 and have had 12 lessons. Karen however, from…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• blues, claiming territory, following the program, importance of blues, not wanting to learn songs, omitting pieces from the program, previous experience, shared lessons

I have been working with two women in a shared lesson for the past five months.  One is excelling, one is struggling.  One cannot read music, one can a bit.  One is listening to what I recommend, one continues to do it her own way.…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• adult students, cheating by reading, playing-based, previous experience, shared lessons, students who use music book

I have a new adult private student with previous experience. She has had 4 lessons. I taught Dreams and Night the first lesson and told her she’d probably feel like going ahead but I wanted her to wait. Well, second lesson she came back and…

• Last updated 9 years ago
• accompaniment, fast moving student, learning a new way of learning, previous experience

I’m hoping someone has come up with a solution to this problem. I recently had a student leave because there was a student in her group who was able to pick up the songs right away due to her 2-years prior piano experience. The group…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• demoralized, group lessons, previous experience, student abilities

I apologize if this has already been covered on the Forum before but I have a difficult situation with a new adult student I need to resolve. This new student is in a group of four and has 6 years previous experience as a child/teen.…

• Last updated 3 years ago
• adult lessons, breakthrough, claiming territory, competing with teacher, Gordon Harvey, learning a new way of learning, previous experience, redirecting

I have a very challenging student and would like some ideas. This student is an adult. I guess partly why she is hard for me is that I am very new teacher. I have only been licensed since like September.  She is definitely a challenge. She has…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• adults, arrangements, improv, moving quickly, previous experience, using the SHMs, variations