The Online Site We Use for Piano Lessons - Schoolhouse Saturday by A Panama Mama
With traditional piano lessons being around $100 a month per student, I was recently looking for an alternative. That is when I found Hoffman Academy and thought I would give it a try! I watched a few of the videos and got out our keyboard to see how the kids would like it.
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Most people pay for piano lessons for about five years. At $100 a month for 5 years, that's $6000 for one child to get one-on-one lessons. That just did not work for our family, but I wanted my kids to learn the piano like I did growing up! That is when I took to the internet and found Hoffman Academy. There is a free option where you can view all the videos or an option to pay $15 a month for one child ($9 each additional child). The paid option gives you a few more options like free downloads of sheet music and worksheets.
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I found Mr. Hoffman to be really nice and friendly. He knows what he is talking about and is a great teacher! Each video lesson is around 10-15 minutes and you can rewind and play them over and over again as needed. His goal is to create well-rounded students who comprehend music. To do this, he emphasizes various parts of learning: improvisation, ear training, sightreading, technique, Solfege, rhythm, music theory.
We have only done a few lessons with our oldest son and he has been able to pay a song or two and recognize some keys. It is something I plan to do again soon (as we got out of the habit of doing music lessons - we also lost the plug to the keyboard, so finding that is a must).
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If you are thinking that you have no idea about the piano, so how can you help your child learn, Mr. Hoffman has even thought of that! He has a downloadable parent guide as well as a parent boot camp! You can find them on the Getting Started page.
If you are looking for a great piano teacher with easy lessons on your schedule from your home, look no farther! I think you will love watching the videos and learning from Mr. Hoffman! You can use these videos anywhere in the world. Go ahead and check out Hoffman Academy. You will be happy you did!
Take a peek at the first few lessons before you decide to pay $15 a month. I think you will find them worth paying to get the worksheets and extras for the monthly tuition though! Just for signing up on the site you get access to all Lesson 1 materials. Check it out!
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My girls really enjoy banging on the piano... may it's an indication that they are ready for some lessons. :-) @ironshield
Yes, that does sound like a good idea! :) Ha
I love the internet. Yet another way to bring down the cost of what is such a worthwhile endeavour - to teach our children the joy of music. Thanks for sharing this link, and your experiences with it.
Yes, so true! I know enough about piano to help them out and I haven't heard of any piano teachers in our area in Panama, so it really works out well for us. :)
And with the costs of 'normal' lessons making things so prohibitive, not to mention the lack of choice in your region, well two birds/one stone (or something like that!).
Know of any good ones for classical guitar? I've been teaching myself with tabs and YouTube...
Piano is great. I hope your children enjoy it!
I don't know of any. I know youtube has everything right now though, right?
although piano isn't my thing nor i am particularly interested in learning it i found that post really amazing. Those courses are much cheaper as you mentioned to and i really really liked the idea of courses and boot camps for parent in order to help they children with more ease!
Yes, it is a great site. I'm glad that I found it. Mr. Hoffman is a pretty cool dude as well. :)
I'm definitely signing up to Schoolhouse Saturday! You're right! Mr Hoffman is a great teacher and I'm glad I checked his video out :) Thanks!
Cool - I'm glad you stopped by and checked it out. It's a pretty great program and I'm glad that the videos are all free. Pretty amazing.
This may ignites my hobby of playing piano, thanks for sharing this post!
Nice! I hope that you can watch some of the videos and learn. My son learned a song this way. It was pretty impressive!
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I've always wondered how the online system would work. Do they also do 1 on 1 video conferencing so they can comment on form and etc?
I'm not sure if they do video conferencing or not. That would be a good idea!!
What an awesome leveraging of technology. The price is really good, particularly if you can locate and print your own sheet music and go with the free version. But at that price, I guess it's not prohibitive to just sign up and give some reward to the teacher.
Yeah, it is a pretty good price per month. I bought in when they were doing something last year where you got all of the downloadable files for one fee (I forget what it was), but then they changed the whole website and program. We haven't picked it back up since we moved, but hopefully we will get to soon!
Oh! Yes, thank you for sharing... our paid piano teacher may or may not show up ... that’s what we would say when my daughter was taking lessons a few years ago. We finally just stopped paying.
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Yikes - that's pretty bad to not show up! Guess they didn't want to have that job or be paid!
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