Many people say that Yamaha is to make children like music better, understand music better and influence music from many angles. This reason can only fool laymen and parents who have never studied music at home. It is indeed possible to guide children's interest and creation from some contents, but these things are based on children.
I have to admit that when I first started learning Yamaha, I was very happy, with a bunch of children in one class. However, after several years, fingering, reading music and music theory are all difficult to support themselves to play the music they should play easily. My mother forced me to make up the music theory in other places, and finally insisted on making up the piano.
Nine of the ten Yamaha students have no fingering, weak fingers and badly broken fingers. A quarter note is four beats, and one beat is a quarter note. Eight notes and eight beats. Most students are simply imitating, because the music in the early stage is relatively simple, so the teacher plays one sentence and imitates another. The music behind is difficult to imitate, and the score is slow to recognize, which will lead to various problems.
I personally heard Yamaha's teacher say that children don't need fingering, just fly on the piano and make a sound. Ask any professional teacher and ask what they think.
The most terrible thing is Yamaha's grade exam. The level of teachers is not as high as that of students, because teachers fail in exams again and again. Too many newly graduated teachers apply directly and have no experience in taking children to practice.
The Yamaha education system itself is very good. Whether it is teaching materials or class content, the fault lies in uneven teachers and irresponsibility to children. The teachers of Yamaha's one-on-one courses have all dealt with it, and even after one-on-one classes, they still don't teach hands or fingering. After studying Yamaha for three or five years, I can't even play the score.
Children's time is precious, especially now children are making up more and more lessons. In the past, children still had time to play with children in the community after school. Now it is estimated that children don't even know the names of their neighbors downstairs. Since learning, we should learn the most basic notation of music and the basic hand shape of playing the piano. Otherwise, children will take more primary school culture classes and put down the piano. At least when they want to play the piano again, they will look at the music and have the right fingering to play.
Learning art, interest is definitely the first, and the foundation of the second child is equally important. Just being interested without solid basic skills is just like learning martial arts, which only makes people laugh.
Basic skills, don't try to make children learn solid in large classes. Most children who come into contact with Yamaha are three and a half to five years old. Children of this age are not very focused. The ability to read music and basic skills are linked, and it will become more and more difficult for the former to keep up with the latter. Teachers in big classes can't take care of all the children.
Yamaha used to be an electronic organ, but now it's changed to double-row keys. This ridiculous reason, training children's hands and feet to coordinate, is more diverse. Take a good look at the video of double-row keys and learn what double-row keys are. A double-row key can play a band, a band. Let a three-or four-year-old child, who doesn't even know all the musical instruments, music theory, orchestration, harmony and so on, play the double-row keys? A row of keyboards didn't play well? Just double row?
Why do you want to change the double-row keys? Because you sell pianos. In the past, there were too many beats and types of electronic organ, so parents could buy an electronic organ through various channels. But after learning double-row keys, there are not many choices. Finally, we can only choose a school for convenience.
Parents must be cautious in the enlightenment of children's art. They can only say that Yamaha used to be very serious and at least had many responsible teachers. But now, they are killing some young people who really want to cultivate their children's art.
It doesn't mean that you can study casually without studying a major, just like learning to drive without stepping on the brakes or hitting the turn signals. In the eyes of people who have studied majors, Yamaha's children are so pitiful!