Forming your teaching to the teaching of form.

Four years ago, when my seven-year-old student was a beginner, I said things such as, "Is the next group of notes the same, almost the same or different than the last group of notes?"

Two years ago, when my nine-year-old student was at the late-elementary stage of piano instruction, I said things like, "Is the next phrase identical, similar or different than the previous phrase?" And last week, when my eleven-year-old student was playing intermediate-level repertoire, I said, "With which motive in the next phrase does the descending sequence begin that causes this phrase to decrescendo?"

Does a similar series of questions occur in your studio? Is this ...