| Did you ever notice how most people who start off | | | | many teachers lack the necessary skills to teach their |
| at a young age taking piano lessons rarely continue | | | | students how to play from within. What does that |
| past high school? Then, when these people grow into | | | | mean? It means that teachers know how to teach |
| adults many of them will eventually regret their | | | | notes, scales, rhythm, harmony and how to play a |
| decision to quit. So much so that, many will actually | | | | piece of music. What most of them fail to realize is |
| seek out a new piano teacher and start all over | | | | that there is much more to teaching music than just |
| again. | | | | what the mind can absorb. |
| Why do most people quit? I don't think it's because | | | | If teachers knew how to tap into the souls of their |
| they're not motivated or they don't like music. I | | | | students by providing the right motivational, |
| believe it's because they don't realize why they're | | | | emotional and spiritual information then, it would be |
| taking piano lessons in the first place. Sure they can | | | | easier for their students to overcome all the |
| tell you that music is important and they probably | | | | obstacles of learning to play. In fact, no obstacle is |
| should be trying harder but the fact is most simply | | | | too big to overcome on the way to learning to be a |
| cannot tell you the real reason for learning in the first | | | | great artist or musician. The drive is within all of us, it |
| place. | | | | just needs to be recognized. |
| Do you want to know why? Ok, here it is. I truly | | | | So, how can teachers learn the necessary skills? By |
| believe that music is engrained into our subconscious | | | | learning how to tap into their own creative energy. |
| and most of us truly want a way to express | | | | You see it's all about energy. It would be impossible |
| ourselves in ways that words cannot. Not only has | | | | for a teacher to share information about energy if |
| music been around since the dawn of time, way | | | | the teacher lacks the creative energy themselves. |
| longer than most modern forms of entertainment | | | | Creative energy comes from within. In my |
| but, music is an integral part of our humanity. | | | | experience, many teachers have never learned how |
| Music resides deep within us and when we hear it, | | | | therefore can't possibly teach it. |
| sing it, play it, share it, learn it, teach it or even dance | | | | Learning to tap into creative energy is a process |
| to it, we get a little closer to who we truly are; | | | | which can be learned. It's never too late. The first |
| multi-dimensional beings who are ultimately creative. | | | | step to learning is realizing that you are not already |
| So why do we quit? Because we get discouraged | | | | connected to this energy. Then, once you realize that |
| when we cannot express ourselves through music | | | | you're not connected you begin to search for ways |
| the way we want to. Usually this happens because | | | | to get connected. How? By focusing on the reasons |
| we compare our abilities to others and the distance | | | | you play music. For example; you do not play music |
| between the way we play music now and where we | | | | to impress rather you play music to inspire. |
| want to get seems insurmountable. But, here's the | | | | Music causes emotional changes within us that are |
| good news. Nothing can get in your way of learning if | | | | positive. Most music anyway. Of course you have to |
| you just realize that know matter how you play you | | | | be wary of low energy music that disguises itself as |
| cannot be bad. Expressing yourself in any way with | | | | high energy music such as heavy pounding rock with |
| music is a good thing and can never ever be bad. | | | | repetitive angry lyrics. But, piano does not fall into this |
| Now, I'm not going to go as far as saying that most | | | | category. Piano music is the perfect outlet to |
| piano teachers cause their students to quit because | | | | express innate creative energy. If more teachers are |
| that would mean that it's intentional. Nothing could be | | | | to see the results they desire then more teachers |
| further from the truth. However, I do believe that | | | | will have to tap into their own creative energy. |