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For years, I was a happy student at Piano Career Academy, but I reached a point where I wanted to choose my own pieces, prompting me to search for a new piano teacher. I went through trial lessons with four different teachers before I found D, who taught me a lot (and who I loved a lot), although she overlooked my technique and never commented on my low wrist position - a flaw I was blissfully unaware of.
After two years, I felt that D had imparted all she could teach me, so I began the hunt for another teacher. You might think that I was a concert pianist, the way that I scrutinised potential teachers! No, she has her wrist just a bit too low, no, he doesn't lift his arm gracefully enough, no, she is into Hanon. But most of all, teachers' presentations and their short demonstrations of virtuoso pieces gave me no information at all about their educational approaches.
This spring/summer, I hired and fired two teachers. One was very promising until I found out that she uses Taubman technique and wanted me to drop down on the keys from my elbow. The other was even more promising but she was so intense that I got a brain overload and could not sleep the nights after I had had lessons.
So now I am searching a teacher again. How come it is so hard for me? So many of you write that you have great teachers! What is wrong with me?
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... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...