![]() We lucked out early on, but I wish I'd known in the middle of the process that serious musical parents do shop around more. Because of a move and multiple instruments, my music-loving kid got lessons from 7 different teachers between 1st and 12th grades, and we learned that the highly-recommended and the most friendly ones were not always the best at encouraging persistence, excellence, and even enjoyment. Recommendations are sometimes useful, but a teacher that's perfect for one child might not be for another. And it's fine for a child to get a taste of different styles of teaching and know there are different ways to do it. Just don't tell her that she gets to pick the teacher because even if you concur with her choice it might not work out - there may be time constraints, and some teachers are choosy about students, too. Whatever you do, for piano or any other lessons, just be sure to try more than one teacher! Ask for a trial lesson (not necessarily free) and don't sign a contract until you decide. Children are naturally creative, it just takes a teacher to know how to guide that inclination. Hope that might generate some ideas for you. She would not be too young to start learning how to compose, and you'd have to find the right one who could teach children composition. Or else, you could also think about composition teachers. Maybe you need a combination of teachers - like a music reading tutor and a piano teacher, with the latter teaching your daughter the mechanics of the piano and essentials of musicality, while the music tutor helps supplement with more practice at reading. This is because your daughter must pick up things very quickly, which is absolutely wonderful and quite a natural gift. Ask yourself - do you want your daughter to learn how to read music? If so, then find a teacher who is creative with getting kids to learn how to read the musical staff - that teacher does not need to have perfect pitch themselves, but can have had much success with teaching struggling students how to read. I think you are asking about teaching methods, and I would venture to say that the real underlying issue is that because playing by ear comes so naturally for your daughter, there may be less motivation/desire/necessity to learn how to read music. However, the point is not to argue whether perfect pitch makes a musician. Perfect pitch does not correlate with musicality, as there are plenty of world class musicians that have an amazing relative pitch, which is truly what is necessary for musicality and also even more necessary when you play in ensemble, as perfect pitch can then become a curse. ![]() ![]() None of my teachers had perfect pitch, and they were graduates of Juilliard and Moscow. ![]() My first reaction to your post is that you do not need a teacher with perfect pitch to teach a child with perfect pitch. ![]()
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