George Hrab

You always have teachers working with each other.

So that just all goes out the window.

They continued through this story.

They start getting into the details of the way they teach using this alphanumeric system, right?

Where in essence, they assign numbers to your fingers so that your pinky is one, your second finger's two, three, four, five.

And then you associate that to the keys on the piano.

And they literally write the numbers in dry erase marker on the piano.

And he talks about how this is this new system.

And it's like any piano book that you buy uses numbers and letters and some combination therein.

This is not a new thing, you know.

And it's not necessarily the best or most efficient way to do it because if you're drawing on a piano –

like literally drawing, you're not incentivizing the student to memorize that, you know, C is C and B is B and D is D because it's being drawn on there.

And like a seven-year-old within a half hour can memorize the piano.

Like that's just, that's like a given.

So it's kind of nonsense, you know?

Oh yeah, they also brought up this idea that their students are sweeping these piano competitions across the country.

There was one particular piano competition that had 300,000 entrants, and they had sent 42 of these students, and they all excelled well in this thing.

Is that not true?

Well, it turns out it's not a piano pedagogy competition.

It's a piano compositional competition, which is very…