First of all, the question is: what are your goals and what are your child's goals? If the path is to lead towards professional training and a career as a pianist, it is ideal for the child to start piano lessons at a very early age. I myself only started playing the piano at the age of seven, which is considered a little late. Nevertheless, from the beginning I had 30-minute individual lessons twice a week. From the third year of lessons, it became 45-minute lessons twice a week.
However, learning music is comprehensive and goes far beyond instrumental lessons. It also includes important minor subjects such as ear training, rhythm, parlato (rhythmic reading of music) and later music theory, harmony and choir. In these subjects, skills such as reading music, sense of rhythm and ear training are specifically trained so that piano lessons can focus on other essential aspects such as interpretation, technique and creativity.
Nowadays, children often have many other activities outside of school, such as sports, and it is difficult to imagine them spending several hours a week exclusively on music.
But that doesn't mean that classes can't incorporate all of these skills - the learning process will just take a little more time.
For example, in a 60-minute lesson, 15 minutes could be spent on ear training and rhythm exercises and the remaining 45 minutes on piano playing. It takes a few years for a child to master reading music and a sense of rhythm so that these skills become almost automatic. This means that later on, they can learn and play new pieces much faster and better.
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