Hello! I’m Genene Edwards. Welcome to my new website pianoforme.com and the first blog.

Phew. It’s taken a while to get here. The Gods of efficient technology did not shine brightly on my previous website which was a bit of a ‘mare for years. Thankfully, word of mouth recommendations and good old fashioned flyers kept me afloat. I still shudder at words like ‘google tag manager’ and ‘search console indexing’ not to mention ‘verification codes’ Arrrrgh!

My saviour of all things technical this time round is the very cool, very knowledgeable Tim Oxendale. (timoxendale.co.uk) With his expert SEO help, I can’t wait to reach and help more potential students who are keen to learn piano. Get in touch to talk about online piano lessons with me. You will be surprised how brilliantly they work! I also offer some local Islington, London ‘in-person’ lessons too.

Meanwhile, I continue to expand and hone my music teaching skills. How people learn is always fascinating to me. When this topic is applied to learning piano – we are talking multi-tasking on steroids! More mind blowing thoughts on this in future blogs.

I’VE BEEN ON MY OWN PIANO TREK…

Teaching piano was not my intended career. Like many piano teachers, I fell into it as a stop gap solution. But the more I taught, the more I slowly fell in love with it.  Being a people watcher, interested in all types of psychology and curious about devising my own innovative piano teaching methods – I gradually become a better, then hopefully a good teacher. I observe how every individual student learns piano in their own unique way. It’s obvious really – we humans are all very different. Our education, life and psychological make-up varies enormously. That’s why I don’t subscribe to the ‘one size fits all’ way of teaching!

What are those differences? Here are two examples;

LOVE OR HATE ABRSM MUSIC EXAMS?

Some of my piano students prefer to aim for ABRSM exam piano grades. They like the strong external goal plus a tangible reward of a certificate. Other students have no interest at all in taking music exams. Instead use their own inner drive to achieve the goals they set for themselves. Both work.  Both ignite a dopamine fuelled sense of achievement.

ANGRY OR CALM WHEN PIANO PRACTICE GETS TOUGH?

Another dissimilarity between students is how to cope when learning piano gets difficult. Understandably most beginners start off getting angry. I did when I learnt at 11 years old ( Sorry first piano, I didn’t mean to shout at you ) Yet, we realise that challenges are an ongoing part of learning piano. It’s how you work through them in order to upgrade your skills that matters. Some students take time to convert frustration into useful focus energy. Others find a calm approach comes more easily. Once again, we are all different.

In my lessons, we aim reduce our body and mental stress as it serves no useful purpose. This is all part of my revolutionary tried and tested piano practicing method. Calm step by step ways to practice with laser sharp clarity and efficiency. It takes time to learn, but my London piano studio results over many years, speak for themselves. I can’t wait to publish my book about this as I know it will help transform the art of piano practice!!

See you on Blog 2 with more musing about all things piano.

Love and melodies

Genene xx

Contact me at pianoforme.com