Yamaha or Cristofori

[theedge]

Agreed that piano teacher can make loads of diff. That’s part of the "problem" with classroom style. U dun have too much bandwidth to chose the teacher.

My son last yr teacher was very hardworking & self-sacrificial, but unfortunately can’t teach well. I din want to pull him out as I felt that every new teacher shld b given the chance to developed. But in the end, it was probably too obvious that she’s not cut up for it. Good thing is that the new teacher was technically strong & was able within 3 mths helped the students to cope enough to pass their 1st practical.

My daughter previous teacher was good, but after transfering class due to schedule issue, we found this term teacher to b even better. There were more technical points for the students to take note of, but all done with such ease. The participation level of her original students vs the newly transferred students was vast enough to be very obvious.

[smurf]

ChiefKiasu:

Charmaine:

I have just registered my 4 yr old kid with Yamaha Junior 4 years course.Think it should be fun playing for him.

Yamaha is good for auditory training, but not strong for professional exams. pianojazzy says as much in the other thread. I know because I sent my son through all the 4 years and more, and he is still quite weak in sight reading. But I guess it all boils down to the level of interest the school can create in the students.

I agreed because I went to Yamaha for piano lesson when young and I hated the teacher.

[hugeclaw]

Any good music school to recommand in kovan/hougang area? My son has been with My Music Inspiration for 1 year, per individual piano lesson is $30 for 45min. He’s doing ok except that there’s no much feedback from the teacher, I don’t really have any idea how’s his progress (am not musically trained) and he doesn’t seem to have much interest in playing at home. I want him to embrace music as something that he will enjoy in his later part of life…doesn’t seem like the teacher is installing this interest or motivation in him. In fact, I often heard her raising her voice at the kids for not ‘memorising’ the notes for their theoratical homework. Now pondering am I paying too much for him to this kind of exposure?

[tweet]

It depends on the child himself/herself.when my children were 4yrs old, sent them to Yamaha @Clementi. Both competed the JMC.Elder continued with Yamaha, but she find that doing grade one with about 10 ppl in a class is too boring. Teacher only manage to teach 2 or 3 lines in a song each lesson.She finds it too slow, so engage her pte teacher.Now so many yrs with the same teacher, she passed her Grade 8 last yr.For my younger, he doesnt like piano, so i stopped immediately after his JMC.


PS: Music, Art, Ballet etc… all depends on the interest of
the individual child.

[Lucky]

hi


Has any parents heard of any good feedback or send their children to Yicha Music School at Katong Mall ?

Any feedback would be most appreciated.

[evelynpoh]

Hi tweet,


Is yr children private piano teacher good? Can I hv her contact? Tks…

[MdmQ]

Hi


Anyone has any feedback which is a good teacher from Yamaha @Tampines Mall (for the 4 Year Junior course)? Thanks.

[mummy of 2 boys]

Hi,


My son is 6 yrs old this year, he has attend the piano class at the ccc which provided by Seimpi, as he will graduate this year end, so I wll pull him out, but have not idea whether I should go for the indivial class or continue the lesson with Seimpi, if with seimpi, it will take 2 yrs time to go for grade 1, if I go for indivial class , will it be more effective, does any one have the simelar experience like me?
Thanks.

[chloe_javier]

every courses parent sign for children, must make sure you plan time to practice and monitor their work. Individual class definitely more effective coz of flexibility in arrange exam period based on your child standard. But it also will make students go back to group lesson coz of friend’s stress. And group classes did set target for certain grade for exam along the 2 or 4 years course. It’s not as easy as individual lesson as it can delay the years of learning.

[mickey]

hugeclaw:

Any good music school to recommand in kovan/hougang area? My son has been with My Music Inspiration for 1 year, per individual piano lesson is $30 for 45min. He's doing ok except that there's no much feedback from the teacher, I don't really have any idea how's his progress (am not musically trained) and he doesn't seem to have much interest in playing at home. I want him to embrace music as something that he will enjoy in his later part of life...doesn't seem like the teacher is installing this interest or motivation in him. In fact, I often heard her raising her voice at the kids for not 'memorising' the notes for their theoratical homework. Now pondering am I paying too much for him to this kind of exposure?

Hi
My boy is attending the music class in My Inspiration and he got the same feedback as yours. He also don't have the interest to play at home. We are thinking to swap him to another teacher.