I'm thinking of starting to teach piano... any advice on lessons etc

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My own piano lessons as a child are very very vague, but I'm thinking I'd love to be able to do this, can anyone offer some advice please?

Make it easy for yourself and use the Hal Leonard student piano books (there is a teachers book to - so you can secretly work out why you are teaching each piece)

It's easier to take absolute beginners and explain everything to them - than work out what they know (and more importantly what they don't). You do need a really good knowledge of a lot of books and their levels and strengths and weaknesses to do this.

Finally take advantage of free and low cost training. I have been on training sessions organised by music publishers and I know the ABRSM do low cost ones to. I have got great tips from these - including a great way of teaching pedaling.

Register yourself with musicroom.com as a teacher and get a discount and free postage. Order a whole pile of student piano books and off you go. Eventually you will be able to sell all of them (either to students or for the truly rubbish on Ebay).