Piano lessons – tailored for adults
For beginners, quickly learn to play utilizing a modern, playing-based approach to piano lessons that will have you playing great-sounding music right away. Play music that interests you – relaxing, chill, flow music, cool, modern music, blues & jazz, pop-style, or classical music.
For those of you who had a year or two of piano lessons as a child, you’ll find this modern approach to learning to be completely different from the lessons you remember. Learning to play an instrument should be fun and engaging experience – a safe space for exploration, discovery, growth, and self-expression.
Engaging in a creative pursuit, such as making music, can promote wellness, improve life balance, and simply bring more joy into your life. I’ve heard from quite a few of my adult students that their weekly lessons with me are like a form of therapy and that the music they are learning provides a special, much-need space for self-care in their lives.
piano as self care
Learning to play the piano and having a musical outlet can provide a wide range of benefits…
- Playing music can nurture your soul, recharge your batteries, or rejuvenate you when you’re feeling down.
- Music can be a form of relaxation, providing an excellent source of release from stress and anxiety. I love this quote from Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley and the author of Awe,… “Music surrounds us in a cashmere blanket of sound.”
- The piano can be a source of great beauty in our lives, providing a new means of self expression. Making music is an art – a creative outlet- and we can all benefit from more art-making and creativity in our lives.
- Taking on a new hobby, such as learning to play the piano, can be a huge self-esteem boost, providing you with the identify of being a musician. Perhaps this has been a dream of yours for a long time!
- And, as you’ve probably read in the news, studies have shown that learning to play an instrument, such as the piano, can be beneficial for our brains, including improving memory and processing ability, helping our brains to make new connections, and potentially protecting against age-related cognitive decline and dementia.
Piano as a creative outlet
Making music can be an engaging creative pursuit. Having a creative, artistic outlet, a safe space to engage in exploration and discovery, to make connections, to…. play… is simply good for our souls. Being playful through music making can bring great joy and fulfillment into our lives.
In our lessons, you’ll learn to “speak” music, to play freely, developing your own unique style of self expression on the instrument. Even a well-known song or musical piece, played from the written page, is rarely played by two musicians in the exact same away. And you’ll learn to just sit down at the piano and play, expressing your mood and feelings, through musical improvisation…. just playing.
If desired, you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to write your own songs and lyrics. This may not be something all students want to pursue, but if this appeals to you, music composing and song writing can be an enjoyable, satisfying creative outlet.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
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If interested, here’s a great TEDx talk from Neil Moore, the creator of the Simply Music piano method (a method I’ve been teaching for more than ten years), about how, with the advent of AI (Artificial Intelligence), human creativity – such as playing the piano – will become even more important in coming years…
