New Piano teacher

How you know you have a good piano teacher:

* The teacher demonstrates her talent at the beginning of the lesson, and periodically, during the lesson.


* The teacher thinks that theory is important even at such a young age.


* The piano teacher speaks perfect English to your child instead of patronizing her in a cutesy voice.


* The teacher even talks to her pug in a normal voice ("Now don't jump up on people, Luna, it's not polite")


* The piano teacher does not put Mr. before every note ( Mr. C, Mr. D etc.)

* Your child learns scales on the first day


* The lesson takes an hour the first time.


* The teacher says it will take a good month before she will truly be able to discern your child's level and ability instead of just assuming she's an ignorant child with no potential


* The teacher buys your child her own practicing notebook from the 99 cent store and doesn't even charge you.


* The teacher tells you she has just cleaned out her garage and has found tons of piano books, so we probably won't have to buy any for a while.


* The material your child has to practice takes more than two minutes to master



* When your child sits down to practice for the day, she immediately breaks into tears and says it is too hard.


* Five minutes later, your child is practicing just fine