Suzuki Piano Teaching Method

The Suzuki method of the Japanese modern educator Mr. Suzuki Shinichi which takes researching and developing human talent as its start point and terminal, focuses on humanity and human love in the teaching process, obeying the rule of human development. It emphasises the teaching relationship between the musical technique and musical meaning .It not only develops the students' musical talent but also nurtures their humanity. At the beginning, Suzuki method was just applied on the violin teaching. With its prosperity in some years, it was applied in the teaching of other instruments and other teaching area as well. Suzuki piano method is one of these branches.Suzuki piano method based on the philosophy of Suzuki education, is the combination of Suzuki method and piano teaching which avoid the wrong piano and shortcoming emerged in other contemporary piano teaching technically.Its purpose is not cultivate professional pianists, but to teach the students how to use this instrument to express the beauty of music, to develop their musical ability, enrich their spiritual worlds and develop their personalities. Its concrete teaching principles and teaching practice are both based on this purpose. Therefore, it forms a series of special teaching projects full of Suzuki character for teaching beginners, teaching music reading and the arrangement of students' performance.Nowadays, the piano education is extremely developed with the births of varies of new teaching methods in our country ever than before. However, the Suzuki piano method which has been existed for almost fifty years and very famous in many other countries out of Japan is still ignored here. This study aiming the problems appearing in the present social piano teaching, research the developing situation, teaching approach and character, studies the substance of its teaching and its value to the general piano teaching in our country. All these are done by exploring research document research and theoretical research.