Chenyufan X
Instruments: Piano, Cello, Keyboard
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop
Chenyufan X
Instruments: Piano, Cello, Keyboard
Styles:
Classical, Jazz, Pop
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 3-70
2022 - Dean's list for Excellent Academic Records
Hi, this is Yvonne. I recently graduated from Berklee College of Music and just moved from Boston to LA! I started playing piano at the age of 5 and started playing cello at 12 years old. I've spent 6 years in the orchestra as a cellist. Though I started out as a classically trained pianist and cellist, I got into different styles of piano playing while in college such as Jazz, R&B, and pop. I've played in four ensembles with other musicians like drummers, guitarists, bassists, vocalists, and string players as a pianist in various styles.
I started teaching piano to both children and adults in high school. One of them was 5 years old, the other was 6, and another was 13 years old. I've also taught a 19-year-old for a short period of time. For the two kids who were 5 and 6, they were total beginners at piano and did not know anything about piano so my main focus was to introduce them to this instrument and teach them the basics of music theories, scores, and postures. For the 13-year-old, she had already learnt how to play but she sometimes had trouble reading notes and understanding rhythms. For her, I tried to engage more rhythm and sight-reading exercises to help her improve. Currently, I'm teaching both cello and piano at a music institute in Arcadia.
For beginners, I would first teach them the basic sitting and hand postures, basic note-reading, and basic music theories. After they know how to play piano in an appropriate posture, I would like them to start with Hanon piano exercises. I believe it is a great book to warm up the fingers and a great finger exercises for all levels of piano players. Other than those basic exercises, I would also like to introduce them to one to two simple pieces that are fun to play. I believe it is important to do both technical and interesting piano playing in one lesson.
I believe creativity and passion are the most important things that a teacher could help build for their students. Personally, I do not like to push my students too hard because I believe it is important to keep young kids being interested in the instrument, instead of being pushed to practice and quickly losing their patience. Practicing everyday is essential, yet I think as long as young kids practice a certain amount of time in total for one day, that would be find. Instead of forcing them to sit in front of the piano to practice for 1 hour, I'd rather to see them practice 20 minutes for 3 sessions in a day.
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