Megan Teaches Piano http://meganteachespiano.com Private piano lessons and instruction in Lansing, Michigan Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:55:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Doublemint Gum http://meganteachespiano.com/doublemint-gum/ http://meganteachespiano.com/doublemint-gum/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:19:04 +0000 Megan http://meganteachespiano.com/doublemint-gum/ Last year I received a call from the mother of a couple potential students inquiring about piano lessons. She wanted to know the usual information–teaching philosophy, teaching style, method used, supplemental material, cost of lessons, etc. Her girls (twin 8-year-olds–how much fun would that be?!?) were asking for piano lessons, and she remembered the flier that I had left on her door a couple months earlier. She also mentioned that not only were her girls asking for piano lessons, but they also wanted to be involved in gymnastics and a couple other activites, all of which were very time-consuming. Their mother had some reservations (as did I) about the girls being involved in too many activities. All those teachers who have taught students who participate in 12 activites and have succeeded in keeping a respectable practicing commitment from said students, raise your hand. (Yep, I thought the numbers would be minimal).

I encouraged them to all sit down and pick out the two or three activities they wanted to do most, and if piano lessons was one of those activities they would be able to commit to, I would be delighted to teach them. Naturally, if they wanted to do all these things in addition to piano lessons, I may have had some reservations, but would not have necessarily denied teaching them. A couple days later, their mother called back and said the girls had decided on gymnastics instead of piano lessons, and that if they wanted to take piano lessons the next year, she would call me again. We then hung up; no hard feelings, just the thought of the unlikelihood of a definitive answer from the ever-changing minds of 8-year-olds (or so I am imagining, since I have no experience other than my own) swirling through my brain.

Fast-forward to last week. Guess who called? Yep, The Mother! And the girls really want to take piano lessons again! I’m not sure if they are still taking gymnastics and the practice schedule calmed down, or if they decided to nix the gymnastics and just do piano. Either way, they’ll start lessons the week after Labor Day. I am thrilled to teach them (as I am with all my students, both new and established). And now I am trying to wrap my brain around the actuality of instructing twin 8-year-old girls, on the same day, during the same hour. This could be interesting….

]]> http://meganteachespiano.com/doublemint-gum/feed/ The first real-live post! http://meganteachespiano.com/the-first-real-live-post/ http://meganteachespiano.com/the-first-real-live-post/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:38:58 +0000 Megan http://meganteachespiano.com/the-first-real-live-post/ Welcome to my first post! It’s a little scary, but also very exciting. Scary, in that there could potentially be many people reading this. Exciting, because there could potentially be many people reading this! Hopefully my faithful followers (heh heh) will check back often to read new stories about all things piano! Until then, I leave you with this: What piano teacher doesn’t love to hear a student come to their lessons saying, “When I grow up, I want to be a professional piano player like you!” I don’t know about anyone else, but that definitely made my year. Until next time….

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