Melbourne School Of Music, 17/311 Royal Parade, Melbourne

Reviews

• Paul Wandmaker

  13.08.2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  Just as the Melbourne School of Music website says, they offer ‘professional tuition’. This is NOT YouTube promising a new song a week. MSOM provide structured & professional music tuition. I’ve been attending weekly lessons with Don at MSOM for 5+ years & from the outset the emphasis has been on reading music correctly, playing in rhythm & playing with correct technique. It took a while to undo all of the self-made mistakes I had created for myself, but the pay-off has been well worth the effort.
  
  As with any worthwhile pursuit, I’ve found that learning from a professional teacher is the only way to go; if not for the depth of knowledge, but also for the ability to identify & correct mistakes early and providing guidance in areas where I struggled with theory concepts.
  
  Learning music takes time & effort and can be difficult at times, but the rewards cannot be overstated. Personally, I cannot recommend Don at MSOM enough.
• Daniel Fox

  13.04.2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  Piano lessons with Jenny are one of the joys of my week. They're fun, interesting and I always leave feeling rejuvenated and recommitted – even if I don’t always live up to the practice hours I envisage as I walk out.
  
  I had learned piano as a child and was playing occasionally before I started lessons at the Melbourne School of Music, but in the four years I have been having lessons, my playing has improved immensely. Piano has gone from something I did intermittently, to a rewarding work in progress.
  
  Jenny helps motivate me and has exposed me to pieces from a range of styles and eras, including a lot of music I would never have found myself. She offers solutions to technical problems week by week, slowly building musical understanding and provides insight into what different compositions are trying to do and how they should be preformed. She also helps more broadly by teaching ways to practise effectively, learn pieces more quickly and improve reading.
  
  She is a devoted teacher and her curiosity about music in general means lessons are peppered with historical background on composers, insights on how thinking about music has changed throughout history and glimpses of the underlying structures of music. I would highly recommend Jenny as a piano teacher to anyone.

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