Parents Support

Piano Composition - You Can Do It!

Have a child in piano lessons who wants to compose their own songs, but is having trouble getting started. Does he or she try to make up their own melodies on the piano ? Piano Students often think they have to be Beethoven or Mozart to compose their own pieces. It's not true. Here are five tips to help piano students begin to compose their own songs. Share it with your piano student at home. Or maybe you'd like to try your own hand at composition.

Parents can play an important role supporting their childs piano lessons and their piano teacher. However, about a third of parents do too much and try to take over responsibility for their childs progress, which hinders their childs ability to develop positive learning skills on their own. In contrast, about a third of parents dont do enough, and fail to support and can get in the way of their child's learning. The remaining 1/3 gets it right. Take the survey below to find out which group you fall into.