New Student Sign-Up

Sign up for a free trial piano lesson (age 5+) - Use the form below.

Trial Piano Lesson

If you would like to be added to the wait list, please schedule a trial piano lesson and interview.

Trial piano lessons may be in person at 2701 Moss Ct, Seabrook, TX 77586, or online. The student should come accompanied by their grown-up.

A prospective student’s grownup should be interested in their student's developing both:

  1. their first instrument - the mind and body - so they may comprehend the music they listen to, perform, improvise and compose. Movement organizes the mind as the student learns the patterns that create musical meaning, starting with the simplest and continuing to increasingly intricate ones. This education of the primary instrument is known as the audiation approach, or music teaching based on Music Learning Theory, which, for piano lessons, is best grounded by the Music Moves for Piano series. My colleagues and students agree that audiation is joyful!
  2. their piano skills by applying their audiation skills to the piano and by learning healthful, biomechanically sound keyboard technique, step by step from the whole body coordination necessary to play the piano, to complex kinetic patterns of the arms, hands and fingers at the keys. The goal is freedom, ease and artistic fulfillment at the keyboard. I study the Lister-Sink Method, a research-validated system that teaches this keyboard technique to adults, from beginning musicians to professionals, and adapt it for students ages 4-18.

Once the sign-up form below has been received, we will schedule the meet 'n' greet and you will receive the Zoom link.

Lessons may then be online, in person or a combination. Companions are not allowed at in-person lessons, but parents may observe through Zoom upon request.

For an online trial lesson, set up your practice nook according to the photo below, near your WiFi router or extender or wired in with an Ethernet cable. Notice how the laptop is placed to one side or the other of the keyboard, raised above the level of the keyboard. In this set-up the teacher gets a side view of the student’s hands and face. The student may easily adjust the camera view by moving the top of the laptop. 



Zooming with music

  1. First, create your own free basic account, if you don't already have one, at zoom.us .
  2. Start a meeting just for yourself and go to audio settings in the pop-up menu by the mute/unmute microphone icon on the lower left.
  3. Under "Music and Professional Audio" mark the checkboxes by Show in-meeting option to "Enable Original Sound", High fidelity music, and Echo cancellation.
  4. Close the settings and enable Original Sound on your Zoom screen. Don't forget to end your meeting.

One of Musikhaus's aims is for students to become independent pianists, but they need lots of coaching from the teacher and assistance from parents to achieve that independence. For online lessons all students through age 17 need a parent within earshot and available to assist. Parents of students 5 to 6 years old should participate in online lessons as if they are another student. The need for parents' active participation in online lessons starts to decrease after about a year and a half or at age 7. 

I hope to see you soon! 

Carla, Musikhaus owner/teacher 

Carla@MusikhausTexas.com

(Student email not required for students through the 5th grade.)