Piano Lessons Townsville with Private Tutor

Get started with a great piano tutor in Townsville!

No matter if it's acoustic keyboard, electric guitar or a simple violin, learning to play a musical instrument with a private teacher, in person or online, is a fun way to learn something new and express your individual creative voice. The piano is an instrument that is taught all over Queensland, Australia and the world. An Australia Music Association study even found that in 2017 the piano was the second most played instrument in the country, closely following the acoustic guitar. If you're a beginner keen to improve your musical knowledge, or you want your young children to gain a great new hobby, you can contact a Superprof tutor to start taking private lesson for a year or more and start seeing improvement lesson by lesson. Our teachers have many years of experience giving lessons to students of all ages and skill level. You can learn to read music, play in different styles or master one of your favourite songs!

From theory to practice: What you can study in private lessons

A great benefit of tuition with a private teacher is that you're free to be in control of your own learning. While tuition in a Townsville school or college may have a strict curriculum, private lessons with Superprof tutors can be exactly what you and your teacher want them to be. Here are some of the different aspects of playing the piano that you could focus on:

Theory: While it may not be the most interesting part of your education (even the teachers know it), mastering some basic classical theory as a beginner student will teach you to build a good musical foundation from which you can continue to study anything, like another instrument or even singing. There is a range of concepts from key to pitch which will be essential in your musical education. Your Superprof tutor will be able to teach everything in a way that is clear and easy, and hopefully, make lessons a little fun for adults and kids alike!

You can also work on scales, which are an important way of teaching different keys and common arrangements. By practising scales, you exercise your fingers, teaching them how to move quickly on the piano and how to stretch that little bit further from one note to the next. They'll even help you to memorise where different notes are on the piano, making the performance of complex songs easy.

Knowing how to read music is another key skill students need to play anything from violin to keyboard. Once you have experience identifying and writing various notes and arrangements, it can make it easier to change them to match your own style, or even start writing your own original songs!

Style: Speaking of style, this is another important element of your musical education that will be more fun with a private tutor in Townsville. Certain tutors may have expertise in certain styles, from jazz to classical to western. Throughout your lessons, they can pass on their expert knowledge of these genres, and even help you discover a new passion. Each style has it's own features that any student can learn, like jazz, which requires a lot of improvisation or rock which requires lots of energy.

Benefits for your life

Becoming a great piano player might be reason enough for students to get started asap with lessons, but if not, let's talk about some of the amazing effects tuition in a musical instrument can have on the brain and mental health of young children and adults alike. Let's start with freedom. Performance with an instrument is a great way to express your creativity and individual voice, something that we don't always get a chance to do in our daily lives. By getting in contact with our emotions and creating something we're proud of, we gain confidence and can even feel some therapeutic effects. You will also feel like you have accomplished something great after working hard and improving lesson by lesson.

Then there are even more scientifically-proven benefits to your brain health. Dr Gottfried Schlaug, a neurologist working at Harvard University found in a 2003 study that students who have played music or been singing for a long period of their life have a significantly different brain structure to others who have never played. Other studies have shown positive effects on a variety of brain functions like memory retention and problem-solving, which can help especially as we age. We also know that the earlier people start playing, the longer-lasting the effects will be, which is a great reason to get young children started in lessons and performance, especially before 9 years old. Another 2011 study from Emory University showed once you have gained this improved brain function, you never lose it, even if you stop playing for years and years.

Private tuition can help with exams

From the Queensland Certificate of Education Music course to the Australia Music Examinations Board (AMEB) and Trinity College London Practical exams, there is a range of ways that piano players are assessed and graded. Taking private lessons with a Superprof can help you improve, teaching the different skills you need to pass your exams. They can give you feedback on performance elements, as well as grade written work via email and talk about different approaches, helping you to face your exams without the spectre of the AMEB or Queensland Certificate of Education examiner looming.

Whether your goal is to learn the skills you need to be in a band, get into a music college in Brisbane or another city in Australia, or help your young children build confidence and learn new skills, taking a private lesson with a tutor is a great idea. We have tutors of different ages and expertise all over Townsville, so whether north, south-east or west, you're guaranteed to find a tutor that can help you become the best musician you can be. If you're interested in online classes, you can even widen your search to find the best tutors in Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney!