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I have struggled to learn piano for a very long time, and I think that learning to play pieces written by other people is overemphasized in piano (and music in
by peterlk 7y ago
I have struggled to learn piano for a very long time, and I think that learning to play pieces written by other people is overemphasized in piano (and music in general, with the exception of drums, guitar, and bass) education. Music is like a language, and we owe it to ourselves and our students to learn more about the language of music rather than just reading and regurgitating notes on a page. A better approach is learning words (chords), and grammar (chord scales, chord progressions) or music.
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- nippoo 7y agoYes; improvisation should be taught more, but learning and deconstructing pieces by other people is an excellent way of doing it, in the same way that learning a language is often best done by listening and deconstructing what native speakers have said and written. The key difference is that we should be encouraging people to learn and /understand/ pieces written by others, rather than just blindly learn the notes.