I have found a numbers of quality students from that. You can also find teachers using sites like. Shame on that teacher for not even asking if the lessons were for you or your child over the phone! Or how old the student was! But yes, there are teachers who do not take adult students, so be sure to ask about that. Make sure to specifically ask if they teach adults AND how many adult students they have. When she realized I wasn't a kid she bolted.
My current teacher (who I am kind of 50/50 on) I found through Craiglist. Were you planning to take lessons or will you be self-teaching? A teacher can help greatly in preventing these things. If at any point you feel soreness, it's a sign you need to back off the playing and rest.Ī major cause of injury is playing with tension and/or incorrect posture and hand positioning. I personally would recommend taking short breaks to stand up and walk around every 15 minutes or so, and I personally probably wouldn't practice longer than an hour or so at a stretch without a good long break-my back starts to feel tired after that long.Īlthough it doesn't seem like playing the piano is hard on the body, you'd be amazed at how easy it is to develop an injury, either back/shoulder strain or in your arms/hands. (c) listen to your body and don't practice so long that you become tired or sore. Daily is better (assuming you're playing with good technique and avoiding injury see below). Here I think Chang is wrong about recommending only four days a week. a day every day is better than 140 minutes on Sundays). (a) more frequent sessions of shorter length is better than sporadic long sessions (e.g., 20 min. Some people swear by the Chang book, and others swear at it.
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