I hope that if you're looking for a piano teacher on Yelp, you'll read my review of Terri Reck.
She actually offers instruction on theory and harpsichord, to boot, but for SEO purposes, I'm going to be using the term "piano" often during this review. Because you need to find Terri, she's a terrific piano teacher, and she boasts a resumé chock full of successful lifelong piano students, performers and enthusiasts, of which my daughter -- currently just six years of age --will undoubtably join ranks. Need a piano teacher? Call Terri. Here's why.
1) My daughter looks forward to each and every lesson. This is not typical of piano instruction. In fact, I had major reservations following lessons from an earlier instructor, a militant person who scared my kiddo. Not Terri. Her demeanor is precisely the opposite, she's calming, encouraging, she communicates expectations clearly and gently, and my daughter has responded with glee. Terri often takes a moment with me, following a class, to remark on my daughter's progress. Awesome.
2) Piano classes are taught in a structure next to her lovely, very quiet north valley home, tutoring the way it used to be, from the studio of the artist to the fingers of the apprentice.
3) Students receive weekly homework -- games, songs and music theory instruction -- and my daughter actually likes to do the work. I'm crossing my fingers on this aspect, because at some point, it's just inevitable, she's going to associate the term "homework" with pure agony. But that's where we are, more than one year into this relationship. Terri's terrific, and her name ends in an i. That's rather cool, as well. read more