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In praise of those Grass-Eating Cows.(beginning music education and piano lessons)

American Music Teacher

| August 01, 2003 | Greer, Amy | COPYRIGHT 2003 Music Teachers National Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

On a whim, my husband and I sold our cars and moved to Boston. I left a studio of well-trained piano students back in my old life; this move meant more than adjusting to a pedestrian lifestyle: I had to rebuild my work. "Yes, I like beginners. Yes, I like little ones," I said in the interview process and was hired by two music schools to teach piano lessons. Suddenly, I had more than thirty beginners, a third who were in kindergarten. Nothing in all my earlier teaching prepared me for the challenge of having so many students who knew no music and nothing about the piano, much less so many students who were pre-readers. Although I thought I knew my system for teaching ...

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