is there a differnce between european piano trainging and american training?  i've seen this teacher that uses a book that is a european style trainging where there is a lot of finger excersises and no songs or melodys.  those teachers seem to discourage the american method where you learn from a lesson book and play songs over and over until you pretty much quit lessons. are these different methods of teaching?
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that might adress things in more detail than you're looking for so i'll try and squash it down.  
the american lesson books that you refer to treat each song as a mini etude that teaches a particular rhythm, scale, chord, or key, or anything else.  unfortunately, i don't think you realize you're absorbing all these things at a time and come to the conclusion that you're just playing the same boring pieces over and over again.  the answer for more advanced students is usually bach inventions and fugues, chopin etudes, bartok's miroskosmos, and musical exercises by composers like cramer and others.

it comes from a school of pedegodgy (the psychological school) that emphasizes that musical training should always be done in conjunction with a composition of musical substance rather than exercises.

the european school  (exercises!) decends from the time of mozart and has it's advantages and flaws, supporters and critics.  (rachmaninov claimed that he played hanon at 220 and played through all the scales and arpeggios daily, citing them as the backbone of his technique.)

there's other schools as well, the most famous that i'm aware of being the russian school, that i don't know much about.

just remember that regardless of the way you choose to learn, you can only absorb so much in a day because of the way your brain and central nervous system work.  therefore overnight leaps in technique are nearly impossible.  you can overtrain your brain (and your fingers) just like you would exercising the rest of your body.

danny
american teaching is playing the same thing over and over again in different keys? so you think the european style is a better way of learning that american style of learning?  the teacher says that the european style  will better prepare me for popular style piano like jazz and blues style piano. do you agree?
i've never heard that the american way was to "learn from a lesson book and play songs over and over until you pretty much quit lessons".  

hehe...fascinating
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