Matova Music School

Tag: education

  • Practice tips for Adult Students

    These are all fundamental questions for your practice to be successful and you to enjoy. Ask one question at a time and focus on listening your sound to find the answer. Repeat couple of times if needed to improve the sound. Multiple mechanical repeats are useless, do not do it. Practice one small section at…

  • Adult Students beliefs and expectations; do/don’t

    When adult students come to me for lessons, they all are at different level in terms of musical technical development. They also have accumulated some bad habits and some believes. Here I will address some of them. © Dr. Nelly Matova, Matova Music School 2025

  • Children, focus, and when to start piano lessons

    In the past, before the rise of electronic games, internet, smart phones and before the pandemic, it was a standard the children to start piano lessons when they are 5-6 years old. Some would start at 7 years old. What has changed? Children learned passivlely to be entertained. They just stare at a screen and…

  • The hassle of make-up lessons explained

    It seems that missing lessons cannot be avoided. Overscheduling, sudden schedule conflicts, shopping, cold, forgetting, or unexpected events all contribute to missed lessons. Some students rarely miss a lesson, but unfortunately others do, quite often. Most students feel entitled to ask for make-ups for missed lessons and often get unhappy when teachers refuse or cannot…