How the "Payam Method" keeps the joy in learning piano

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This is how my piano teacher taught me back in the early 2000s!

As a classical pianist this is how i teach my kids

Legacy media is so out of touch. This is just standard piano teaching for at least the past two decades.

Adaptive Education is the future

I took piano for 6 years until my teacher retired in 2009. I mostly chose which music I wanted to play so piano was always fun. But as tedious as music theory is, it is important to make it a foundation. And it's also good to start with classical music because once you learn classical, learning how to play everything else is easy.

That reminds me I need to finish the The Iliad and The Odyssey

I like "ode to anxiety" 🎹🎶🎵

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this piece. I never studied piano, but just learned pieces I loved. Amélie, A Thousand Miles from Vanessa Carlton, Fur Elise, All of You from John Legend, Clocks from Coldplay… it was so much slower because I was self taught. This was 20 years ago. I still play these pieces. Recently, I’ve played Amélie for a classical pianist on her YouTube channel - where she roasts channel viewers. She actually picked up on my rubato and ended with “I hear you’re a very musical person - self taught? Very impressive”. So this method makes a lot of sense! Thanks again for sharing! 😊

I'm sorry but teaching with a personalized curriculum or reharmonizing existing pieces wasn't invented by Payam lol