Piano Lessons in Your Home teacher Mr. Shaun demonstrates advanced scale techniques.

Piano Lessons in Your Home teacher Mr. Shaun demonstrates the skills required to pass the PLIYH Scale Olympics, Skill Set Level 2.

Each year, Piano Lessons in Your Home hosts the “Young Performer Awards”, where music students of all ages and ability levels have the opportunity to submit pieces for evaluation by expert third party evaluators. As part of the YPA Series, piano students may also elect to compete in PLIYH’s “Scale Olympics”, where they are asked to demonstrate their mastery of piano scales based on prompts by the evaluator. Because one instructor or instructional method may differ from anoth

This is one of the most common questions parents ask our teachers. This is not surprising, because the lessons themselves represent just a small fraction of the time a student will spend learning an instrument. A supportive parent - even one without a musical background - can make a huge difference in the child’s development during these formative periods. For starters, parents can learn much from observing the last 10 minutes of lessons and debriefing with the teacher afte

We are excited to welcome our newest community to the Piano Lessons in Your Home family: the Summit City, Fort Wayne, Indiana!  As Piano Lessons in Your Home continues to reach more music students the midwest, with over twenty years of music teaching success throughout Ohio and the Chicagoland area, Fort Wayne is a natural place to begin our expansion into Indiana.  Besides its longtime attraction to families seeking an affordable, livable place to raise children, Fort Wayne

It’s a common refrain in this day and age: what ever happened to “free time?” The question rings familiar to each and every one of us, but is equally true of our children. With each passing year, parents anticipate yet more homework and higher stakes for children’s grades. With each success comes the challenge to do equally as well, if not better on the next assignment. As time goes by, the academic pressure can be overwhelming for many students. And that’s just academics

Thinking about learning the piano but don’t yet own one? Today it’s possible to find an incredible variety of digital pianos that allow you to get started without all of the expense, space, tuning maintenance and other considerations required for a conventional (acoustic) piano. They’re less expensive, more compact, portable, and often have features that enhance the learning experience - not to mention volume control, which can make practice time more family-friendly! Price

Piano Lessons in Your Home would like to congratulate all of the participants in our spring 2019 Young Performer Awards, during which student musicians from all of our PLIYH communities - Columbus, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dayton, Tampa Bay and Little Rock - submitted pieces for formal evaluation by expert judges from Piano Lessons in Your Home. Piano performers were also invited to demonstrate their technical skills in the Scale Olympics. Our Blue Ribbon performers - the best o