Frequently Asked Questions

A Few Words for a Parent

Playing  a musical instrument, like the piano, or violin, or guitar can become a life-time pleasure; it can give you something profound and hardly describable in everyday words. Music itself is a wordless language; it’s about expressing emotions and deep feelings in a way nothing else can do. Those, who are proficient players, seem to do it so effortlessly, that quite naturally one might think that it’s not a big deal to learn how to play, especially if not in a very advanced way, but just for yourself, “for fun”. Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you that those, who state that studying a musical instrument is just about fun, are terrible liars…

You can start as an adult, because you know exactly what you want and will consciously go after it. Your hands will not be as flexible, though.  Teenagers are typically not very patient…

“Do we have to study classical? I personally don’t particularly care about it; I just want to play some nice pop tunes” – Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?  Well, this time my answer won’t be very short, I’m afraid…

It depends. It’s necessary to make a serious distinction between a real acoustic instrument and an electric piano, very popular nowadays. These don’t have much in common, believe me or not.

The short simple answer is – one should practice every day, otherwise the student will not develop good work ethics and the right attitude, and these are extremely important in every human’s activity.

Here is another typical mistake – “Why should my child practice that much? I don’t want him/her to be a professional”.

I’ve heard this many times, “I can’t help my child. I don’t know much about music; I just want my child to get this”.

Well, without this knowledge a student remains half-illiterate in music, believe me or not; s/he is not able to practically relate things, to see classes of things, BIG patterns.