•    Students begin their training by acquiring a body of musical concepts as well as each guzheng fingering technique, from fundamental to advanced, using a personalized approach based on music pieces from short to long, that are suitable for their level.

•    Guzheng Duet, Trio, or Ensemble Classes and performances will further expand students study to a team work environment which enable them to gain the totally different vital knowlege, which include discipline, analytical thinking, problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills and more.

Choice of Lessons

Private Lessons

Private lessons are an expensive, yet the most effective way to learn. Private lessons offer a learning pace that is tuned to you in particular, which usually means an accelerated learning pace over group classes. The more skilled you are, the more true this becomes.

Private lessons are good for working intensively on details in areas that aren't fixable in a group class, since you receive feedback on a moment-to-moment basis.

Lesson plans are carefully designed for students to develop technically and musically to their fullest potential. To balance student's musicality and technical facility, some lessons are dedicated mainly to intensive technical training, while some lessons emphasize on phrasing and interpretation. Each student receives a personalized lesson based on his own progress on either a specific area that needs to be addresses at the moment or music knowledge as a whole.

Semi Private / Small Group class

Semi-private / Small group lesson with 3-5 students to teacher ratio offers the hands-on attention required to get the right start. These classes have some advantages of their own, besides the lower cost:

a.   Group lessons are considerably less intimidating and less exhausting for people, who don't like the constant, nonstop spotlight of the instructor's attention.
b.   In group classes, you get a sense of the pace at which other people learn, which is reassuring enough that it helps most people learn faster.
c.    The early phase of learning to play guzheng simply requires lots of repetitions (in a context of clever and instructive progressions), to let the fingers acquire an automatic feel for the fundamentals. Doing simple stuff over and over is the very best way to master certain aspects at the beginning. While doing simple repetitions, some people would prefer to use their money more wisely over private lessons .

Guzheng Duet, Trio & Ensemble Class & Performances

We strongly recommend students to join our Guzheng Ensemble after they are at the near-intermediate level. Here, students will put what they have learned in the private lessons in the real world at the group rehearsals and group performances. The group work enhances student understanding. Students learn from each other and benefit from various activities that require them to articulate and test their knowledge. Group work provides an opportunity for students to clarify and refine their understanding of concepts through discussion and rehearsal with peers. Group work also helps to train students real world problem solving, senses of cooperation, instant information validation abilities. Also, working with a group and for the benefit of the group also motivates some students and helps them to develop sense of responsibility.

Curriculum

Beginning Students - focus on learning the right basics. Used varied short pieces to introduce all basic music concepts and basic fingering skills. For those who never had no music background, expand teaching to include more music theory, ear training, music reading, rhythm and other basic music skills.

Mid to Advanced Level Students - introduce significant amount of advanced fingering techniques and musical creativity and expression skills after precise understanding of each music piece.