Houston Musicologist Raises Public Awareness that Traditional Piano Lessons are Not Only Low Effective, But May be Damaging to Your Child

Houston, TX (PRWEB) August 30, 2005

Hellene Hiner, a Russian born musicologist and a music teacher with more than 25 years of experience raises the awareness that traditional piano and music lessons can be very unhealthy for the children that take them.

Loads of theory and the lack of visual and audio hints overcharge children’s minds and force their muscles to work in extreme stress. This causes chronic muscle tension and leads to hand injuries and psychological trauma in average children. The motto ‘Do it right from the very start’ pushes students to develop their skills through harsh drills and creates ‘a perfectionist complex’ and low self-esteem. Singing letters of the Alphabet can damage children’s vocal chords because they use the wrong syllables, considered uncomfortable for the throat.

The traditional graphics of the Grand Staff have a ‘novel-like’ appearance, which a multitude of lines and spaces, but human’s mind can comprehend only 5-7 new elements at the same time. There has to be a healthy balance between coordination, vision and abstract thinking development in order to avoid all of these obstacles.

Piano lessons have been associated with so many disappointments passed from one generation to another that the amount of people that still want their children to study music decreases every year. This has negatively affected music as a language, music as a performing art and the music industry in general. The cutting of budgets in public music education is the only material proof of the general catastrophe.

Children love to learn new things successfully. Otherwise, they do not like to learn at all. The struggles that our children go through by dealing with the absurd teaching of music fundamentals are considered to be the only right and legitimate way of learning.

However, the ability to hear and differentiate music sounds, sing and play with sheet music and to write music down by ear can be earned by every average person more effectively, and with fun. It only takes desire to fix the problem with music education now, and music literacy will become a part of everyone’s life. Most importantly, we need the motivation to make it happen, and the courage to understand that these changes are for the better.

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