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Online Lessons

Alderwood Piano is now providing one-on-one lessons online to students across the country.

Piano Lessons

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Female child learning to play the piano from teacher

Children

Learning to play the piano strengthens your child’s learning abilities: visual, auditory, tactile, memory, spatial reasoning and literacy. Plus, it makes them happy!

Piano teacher and female student at the piano

Teens

Learning to play piano strengthens learning across the spectrum for teens. Increases reaction times in other activities, including sports and academics. Reduces stress and depression.

Learning to play piano increases mental alertness and improves memory. It increases resilience to age-related hearing loss and protects against dementia. It also increases blood flow to the brain and reduces stress and depression.

Online

Never leave the comfort of your own home. Reduce scheduling conflicts and the need to be two places at the same time. Make technology work for you and with you to provide a learning environment that teaches a new skill.

Vera Alder

Your Piano Teacher

I love to play piano! I love to teach others how to play piano, and hopefully, to love it as I do. Every student is different in the music they enjoy and how they learn. My goal is to help them unlock the potential in themselves, so they can become self-motivated learners, not just in piano, but in all areas of learning. It's called ``playing`` for a reason, and I feel privileged to help my students enjoy the process and all they can accomplish. I hope we can work together to develop a lifelong love of music!

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Inspirational Quote!

This is why I teach music--not because I expect you to major in music, not because I expect you to sing or play all your life, not so you can relax, not so you can have fun, but so you will be human, so you will recognize beauty, so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world, so you will have something to cling to, so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good; in short, more life ~ Anonymous

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What You'll Learn

Sight Reading

Learn how to read piano music fast, “at sight” so you can play new music sooner/faster.

Theory

Learn the foundation behind the piano music–scales, chords, the language of music, how the music is constructed, making music easier to...

Accompanying

A whole different skill from playing solo piano. Strengthens visual, aural, physical skills. Learn to play well with others.

Performance/
Anxiety

Knowing how to play piano and being able to share your joy of music with others can be difficult. Learn some tricks of the trade from a...

Sing & Play

Accompanying yourself while singing can be difficult. Add another level of concentration and learning. Just harmonies? Or more?

Style

Piano playing, as music in general, covers a variety of genres; classical (baroque, classical, romantic, modern), pop/rock, easy listening...

Lead Sheets

Learn to play from lead sheets, know which chords/harmonies the music on the page needs.

And More!

How to hold your hands, which part of the fingers to use, add your arms and body. Playing the piano is a very physical activity requiring more...

We were fortunate enough to have Vera teaching our children this last year. We had 4 children (ages 8 through 17) doing lessons and Vera has done well with each age and level. She was able to teach them a lot in her time with them. They each looked forward to their lessons. Vera is well educated and skilled in both teaching and music. She has also done a very good job of balancing encouragement and constructive criticisms. Each of our children and myself recommend Vera Alder highly.

Ondrea K.

I always loved the piano but thought I had missed my chance to learn to play until I met Vera. With her masterful teaching, patience and understanding of adult learning styles (even seniors) I am learning to play piano and understand music at a deeper level than I could ever hoped. Never give up it gives us hope and brings blessings to our lives.

Michaele W.

Mrs. Alder had my 5th grader reading music in no time, and allowed him to choose some of his own pieces from day one. His confidence and love for music exploded under her direction.

Charlotte G. / Post Falls, ID