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The Best Way To Make Sure Your Child Sticks With The Piano Long-Term

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The piano is not the easiest instrument to master, but when you do it can be extremely rewarding. After all, it is used in so many popular songs, and it can also be customized and used in a more modern way (such as with synthesizers and so on). However, if you want your child to actually succeed in completely learning the piano and not just be able to play a few songs here and there, then you need to consider piano lessons. Here are a few ways in which piano lessons will help your child fully learn the piano and not fall off.

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

The hardest part of learning anything, whether it be a new language or an instrument, is having the stamina to repeat the basics over and over again until you eventually see it as second nature. Piano lessons give you that structure in which you will naturally pick up learning the instrument because you are around it so often. That is not to say piano lessons are boring or monotonous; they are far from it. It just means that by taking them regularly, week in and week out, your child will be far more likely to actually learn the basics of the piano (and beyond) than they would through their own interest.

Introducing It to Them Gently

Everyone approaches the piano a little bit differently, so trying to force your child to play it in the same way you learned, or through an online tutorial, can provide negative results. Instead, piano tutors in private lessons can examine how your child enjoys playing the piano and start basing the lessons off of what they do and do not respond to. That sort of custom-learning approach is critical to not only make sure they learn the piano, but also that they enjoy the process.

Someone Invested in Their Progress

A piano teacher or tutor is never an easy role for a parent to play because your roles can be blurred with that of your parental responsibilities. Instead, using a piano tutor gives your child an unbiased and completely new person who is invested in their progress and has a much clearer framework from which to work on. Your child is much less likely to give them, a new figure of authority, attitude than they are to you who they probably are much more familiar with. Introducing that new role of a piano tutor can be a vital step to break them out of a rut and finally get them to pay attention when learning piano. 


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