The Question that Changed Everything
I started teaching piano when I was fairly young. I taught part-time during my undergraduate years, and by the time I finished my Ph.D., nearly fourteen years later, I had a full piano studio. But a decade of teaching left me with a dilemma. I thought I was a good piano teacher, but I had to admit that I produced very average piano students … not musicians, not artists, not even pianists, really. Piano students. Average ones.
It eventually occurred to me that there was a critical flaw in the very basis of my pedagogy. You see, I thought that my piano students and I were fundamentally different. I was trying to create orchestral colors and broad, poetic pacing in Ravel’s “Miroirs.” They were learning “quarter, quarter, half note.”
“What if,” I asked as the idea dropped onto my head like Newton’s apple, “I adopted a paradigm in which my piano students and I were doing essentially the same thing?”
That question changed everything about my teaching.
The Question that Changed Everything
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