As a parent, you want your child’s first experience at the piano to be a positive one. With the Shaak Piano Method™, you will see and hear your child’s response to music right away because they will be MAKING MUSIC and creating sounds from their own hands instantly. For the child, this serves his/her need for instant gratification by using music as its own reward system.

The Shaak Piano Method™ encourages the student’s learning through group lessons, private instruction and practice at home. The group class environment is a teaching tool that provides advantages impossible to achieve solely in private lessons or home practice alone. This includes: learning by peer example, exposure to more musical styles and composers, getting feedback from peers on a weekly basis, excitement and motivation from group games and activities, benefits from having a performance arena every week and development of friendships with others who also enjoy making music. Parents will also discover how these groups help motivate student practice habits.

"This approach to piano playing emphasizes the importance of ‘making music’ before interpreting musical symbols: playing before reading, in other words, the "ear" before the "eye". Music is a language, easier understood in the beginning through ‘listening’ than through ‘looking’ at the printed page." - Bernard Shaak, co-founder of the Shaak Piano Method.