piano skills


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Posted by ken k on February 23, 2001 at 09:09:15:

Hello everyone, When I find out a high school student of mine is seriously considering going to college to study music, I always say, "start taking piano lessons!" And they always look at me like I am nuts or something. They just want to play tuba. But of course there is so much more to music than just your major instrument. I just remember sweating bullets to pass my piano proficiency exams, because I was not a great pianist (and I had taken lessons for a few years). I went to a school for music ed and not performance and we had a killer piano proficiency exam that you had to pass before you could student teach. It ended more than one teaching career I know for a fact. Anyway, what are the piano proficiency requirements at a performance school like say IU, USC, ASU, Julliard,etc?
ken k


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