Lessons for All Ages, Beginner to Advanced
Matt Safley Music offers piano and keyboard lessons for children and adults and advanced players. Never played the piano before? No problem—beginners welcome.
In an introductory lesson, you'll learn a handful of basics such as:
- Hand placement
- Recognition of simple music notation
- How to play a simple melody
Progress is evaluated regularly, and when it's time, students move up to amplified and more challenging intermediate to advanced piano/keyboard techniques.
What Students Learn
During a school year of private piano or keyboard lessons, a student will:
- Study basic concepts and skills like finger placement, scales, pedaling, key signatures, and rhythm
- Learn multiple pieces and progress to more challenging music
- Improve music reading
- Advance in proper piano technique
- Master how to memorize a passage of music
- Learn how to prepare for a performance
- Gain a deeper understanding of musical periods, styles within those periods, and their correlating composers
Matt Safley Music aims for students to immerse themselves deeper into music to further develop their skills and learn the ins-and-outs of the piano and keyboard through private lessons and performances.
Advanced Piano Lessons
Advanced piano and keyboard lessons offer an in-depth curriculum focusing on technique and music theory. Students will learn these concepts and more:
- How to enhance and build your artistry through adding in colors and textures of sound into your playing
- Arm movement and proper mechanical function
- Pedaling methods
- Techniques to gain speed and avoid tension
- New scale and chord sequences