Sit at your piano and play
Advice for teachers
Go play.
Really.
Sit down at the piano and play.
Play because you like hearing the sounds you can make.
Play to give yourself goosebumps.
Play to remember that night in Barcelona or Sydney or the Bronx, in all of its glory.
Play because you can, because you can, because you can.
Your students study and labor over definitions and struggle over symbols. You did too when you first started.
Your students need to see a teacher who simply loves playing the piano and is not studying all the dang time.
They need to see the fun part. Otherwise, what's the point?
It starts with you.
Very often, I play a little ditty for them so they can witness the joy and goofiness and technical acumen, mistakes and all.
When you play the piano for the sheer joy of doing it? Miracles Happen.
Let your students see that.
We teach this.
