Ages 9-99
PPC
Personalized Piano Community
Your beginning through early-intermediate student experiences the best of both private lessons and group piano worlds!
Meeting with 4-6 friends, at their own digital piano stations and using headphones, your PPC student will really learn to practice! To find true self-motivation, students need to reach mastery on the material they are playing and this is what PPC helps a student achieve in each class. Feeling empowered because they go home knowing what to do, practice feels much easier and fosters more independence. Motivation occurs when students learn from their own effort. Practicing effectively makes learning easy and playing joyful!
In this supportive environment, students typically move faster than when enrolled in Private Lessons, because they have more supervised time with the teachers present and because they are more motivated by the group setting.
Content includes extensive micro and macro goal setting, dynamic group activities, note-learning contests, technique incentives, music theory, ear training, sight reading and performance pieces. Social benefits are experienced in a group setting, and students feel supported and mentored right from where they are at. Desiring to do their best, this brings out their best!
Read more about PPC in this PPC Intro Letter.
Schedule & Format
Mondays 3:00-4:15, or, Wednesdays 3:00-4:15 or 4:30-5:45
75-min class, held weekly
Parent Time
Parent joins for first 10 minutes on the first complete week of the month.
Materials
The monthly fee (below) is inclusive, and therefore covers tuition, materials, subscriptions, recital fees, theory materials, etc. This enables us to provide your student with the materials they need, when they need them, without delay.
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Lesson (method) book(s)
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Music Learning Community subscription OR theory workbook
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Piano Marvel premium subscription (sight reading software)
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Assignment notebook/binder
Fee
$80/mo
Ages 9-99
Private Guitar, Piano, or Uke Lessons
Every student loves one-on-one time with a teacher they love. Your student will enjoy being challenged in new ways while still playing songs they want to play, too!
The Well-Prepared Student: Private Lessons are for the student who has a musical foundation to build on, and is ready to takes things to the next level. We recommend students start their musical journey in our Musikgarten and PPC classes. These graduates soar in Private Lessons because of the fantastic foundations that have been established in previous years at Harmony Arts.
Students New to Music Study: Can anyone sign up for Private Lessons, even if they haven't been in our foundational programs? Of course! As long as their is an opening, anyone is welcome! Be sure to talk to our Director to discuss our fantastic options so your student is sure to succeed!
Private Lessons may include instruction in the following:
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Music theory
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Ear training
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Sight reading
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Practice techniques
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Finger technique, posture and developing facility in playing
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Improvisation
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Recital preparation and performance
Performance Master Class is held twice a year and replaces the private lesson for that week.
Schedule & Format
To be scheduled
60 minutes total: 30 min w/ teacher, 30 min in lab, held weekly
NOTE: Register for the TEACHER of your choice. Then you will be contacted to set up schedule.
Parent Time
Parent joins for10 minutes on the first complete week of the month.
Materials
The monthly fee (below) is inclusive, and therefore covers tuition, materials, subscriptions, recital fees, theory materials, etc. This enables us to provide your student with the materials they need, when they need them, without delay.
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Lesson (method) book(s)
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Recital pieces
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Music Learning Community subscription OR theory workbook
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Piano Marvel premium subscription (sight reading software)
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Assignment notebook/binder
Fee
$63/mo - student teacher
$85/mo - professional
$107/mo - teacher w/ college degree in piano per month
(all our teachers receive extensive, on-going training and collaboration)
