Let's Play Piano!

Submitted by Carol C. Angus

How many times have you wished you had taken piano lessons or worked harder when you did?   Creating music is a wonderful adventure that can last a lifetime.  Is learning to play piano easy?  For some, yes;  for others, a challenge; and for a few, impossible. Besides giving ones self and others pleasure through the reproduction of music, the student appreciation is nurtured with the works of fellow students and their quest to learn an instrument. Consider the following positive by-products of playing the piano.

• Love of making music for one’s own and others enjoyment.
• Expressing oneself in a controlled area.
• Technical skill exercises aid in developing good eye-hand coordination.
• Self-control is a by-product of this disciplined activity.

• Practice habits are developed to encourage and insure steady progress.
• Listening skills develop to support playing skills.
• Art form that enhances the child’s reasoning skills as seen with  higher  SAT scores every year.
• You become comfortable in expressing yourself with the element of music creation at the piano.  Also you come to enjoy sharing your skills with friends, family for various functions at school or church.

• Patience develops as a by-product of practice.  Things do not happen overnight but through patient perseverance.
• Interpretational skills develop through practice & experimentation.
• Appreciation for all types of music and  how  you become able to convey an emotion through your own interpretation of  music to others.
• Nurtures need of self-expression.  Necessitates a student to become fluent in naming notes and reading rhythm patterns so that music reading becomes an automatic reflex.
• Organizational skills are developed in learning how to budget time for practice which carries over to all academic disciplines.

Submitted by:
Carol C. Angus Piano Studio
​303 Baywood Road, West Chester, PA 19382    
610-399-0515    
carol.angus@verizon.net