Piano Lessons

Did your parents ever make you learn the piano as a child? Did it work? There was a time in the past when it was a fad for children to learn how to play the piano. In some families, this is still a tradition. But for many of us, our childhood piano lessons were a terrible waste of time. Time we could have spent having fun. Traditional piano lessons are difficult, time consuming and boring. They make you spend hours pecking away at the piano, trying to decipher faded yellow teaching manuals.

However, we are now living in the Information Age. While the most obvious manifestation of this Age is easy access and dissemination of information, another lesser known effect is the increasing use and proliferation of accelerated learning technologies. These technologies were first developed and used by the US and USSR during the Cold War period. Different techniques were used to train spies and diplomats to learn new languages quickly and easily. Quite possibly the Japanese used variations of these accelerated learning techniques to create the corps of engineers who re-built their industrial economy after World War 2. Today, the two most successful accelerated learning programs come from Japan – the Suzuki method for teaching musical instruments, and the Kumon method for teaching mathematics.

Today, with the aid of even more advanced electronics and computer technology, as well as psychology and behavioral science, the original accelerated learning technologies have been improved and updated. The best online piano courses use Read the rest of this entry »