Adult Piano

What these lessons are like

A good number of the people who learn with us are grown-ups — those who always meant to start, or who played as a child and never quite forgave themselves for giving it up. Grown-up lessons run completely differently from a child’s. There is no sticker chart and no exam unless you ask for one; there is just your time, your goals, and the pieces you have always wished you could play.

We are realistic about a working adult’s diary. Practice tends to happen in the gaps of a busy week, so we make each lesson count and set tasks that fit twenty honest minutes rather than an imaginary hour. Plenty of grown-ups choose fortnightly lessons, and that works lovely when the fortnight in between is used well.

Grown-ups tend to move along quicker than they imagine, because they grasp why they are doing a thing and they have chosen to be in the room. Inside a term most can play something they are quietly chuffed with — and that first moment you sit and play a whole piece, for nobody but yourself, is precisely why people keep coming back.