Today I met with a new potential piano student. There is something that is so exciting about a new person wanting to take piano. I am definitely on best behavior, and there is a sense of excitement about starting on this new endeavor together. I am not sure I am exactly what this student is looking for, or rather, I am, but she doesn't know it yet. I am committed to teaching a certain method, and she would rather just work on pieces. In talking to her, I already realized how much the Well Prepared Pianist program would help her, and made her clear that to study with me will mean doing at least some WPP. But she is almost 12 years old, has studied for 7 years, and is not interested in really working on her technique. I'm all about technique. She does not do scales. With me, she will do scales. She will love them. She has also - get this - not played any standard repertoire. No Bach, Beethoven. Just music written in the past 10 years for piano students. But she plays reasonably well. She's a sweet girl, I'd take her as a student. My studio is definitely filling up.
