Music School in St. Louis
Private Piano Lessons
Matt Safley Music offers piano and keyboard lessons for children and adults and advanced players. Never played the piano or keyboard before? No problem—beginners welcome!
Transform Your Learning and Performing
Going Beyond the Fundamentals
Going Beyond the Fundamentals
Going Beyond the Fundamentals
Within lessons, students increase a variety of skills, including hand-eye coordination and ear training, as well as study music history and music theory.
In an introductory lesson, students 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 more challenging intermediate to advanced piano/keyboard techniques.
Minimum weekly 30-minute lesson.
What Students Learn
Going Beyond the Fundamentals
Going Beyond the Fundamentals
During a school year of private piano or keyboard lessons, a beginner or intermediate 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
Advanced Piano Lessons
Advanced piano and keyboard lessons offer an in-depth curriculum focusing on technique and music theory. Students will learn the following 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