How to Manage Piano Life during Your Busiest Time? (junior version)
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There are boys and girls who keep playing piano even in the middle of their busiest time. In Japan, a large number of students take entrance exams for private junior high schools (January-March), which need quite intense and elaborate preparation over one or several years. One of the keys to continue piano is efficiency. How do they deal with it?
Takakazu Ogata, who has just entered in one of the highest ranked junior high schools in Japan, loves piano so much that he participated in the PTNA Piano Competition last summer, and took lessons until the last minute before the entrance exam season started. As the time restricted, he always kept in mind to practice efficiently and focused on the weak points. He has experienced public stages many times so far in piano competitions or studio concerts, etc., which helped him keep courage and confidence under any circumstances as exams.
Aoi Hojo, who has become a student of a famous junior high school for girls, keeps playing piano everyday from her childhood, and it has become a part of her life. She has never thought of suspending piano even before the entrance exams. She took part in the duo division of PTNA Piano Competition last summer together with one of her friends. Her elder sister used to be beside her, but switching partner helped her refresh her mind to work for a new goal. As a result, both piano and the academic study went successful.
It is not seldom happens, but Momoko Nogami also received a suggestion from her cramming school teacher to suspend piano temporarily to prepare for the entrance exams. But her piano teacher (Mako Yokoyama) encouraged her to continue piano, and reorganized the lesson curriculum so that she could cope with it. Momoko kept taking lessons and took part in the studio recital in the end of the year, just before the exam season started. At present, being at the 2nd grade in a highly-demanded junior high school, she is busy in academic studies but keeps playing piano on stage and was awarded the silver prize at the PTNA Piano Competition in D grade last year.
Of course, temporary suspension is another option. Chinatsu Tabata decided to suspend piano lessons for half a year to concentrate on the study for entrance exams. Now she resumes her music life after entering into a famous junior high school. She believes that great deal of concentration comes from full commitment, whether for studies or for piano. She was awarded at one the regional rounds of the PTNA Piano Competition 2014.
A piano teacher, Noriko Fujishiro (representative of Tontone Station) always takes students' individual circumstances into account when she plans lesson curriculum. When a student finds it difficult to have enough time for practice at home, she would advise him/her to focus on sight reading or efficient score reading training. Or when a student has to study for exams and cannot play for a certain period of time, she would put lessons ahead of schedule. Fujishiro notices that it helps them read scores faster, or lead to better performances. "The key is how much you love piano, how much you want to keep learning piano, even at the time you have to spare time for another works or exams. Playing piano would give you good energy, inspiration, as well as brain work, which is proved by brain scientists".
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