George Hrab

It's all great.

He emphasizes student-led learning, repertoire, varied method books, varied pieces, playing first, learning by rote, emphasizing fun and composition, creativity, improvisation, and that's all fantastic.

However, none of this is new.

Yeah, like like none of it is new.

He he is he or the method that's being developed by him, like many things that are often get rich quick or, you know, lose weight fast.

Oh, it's a brand new system and this is going to reinvent and it's effortless and it's very simple to do.

And no.

Well, within this 60-minute story, they started making – and that's one thing to just like be able to say, oh, this is my method.

Use it.

But they started making claims.

And as soon as you start making claims and pointing towards evidence, that's when I think it's our job to kind of jump in and say, yeah, your claims are BS.

One of the claims they made is, first off, 80% of students quit piano after a year of studying to kind of make their case.

Hmm.

There's no like national database of piano teachers that are sending information in.

Like when did your students hate working with you and when did they stop?

That doesn't exist.

So this is a made up statistic.

It's like anecdotal and conjecture.

It sounds right.

80% of students quit piano after a year.