WeKey teach group piano lessons for beginners at Primary School. We work with 4 and more students per group and focus on teaching piano, and the language of music, through the lens of our students musical interest. We pride ourselves in being able to adapt our lessons to any music material; our teachers are able to listen to any piece of music and know how to play it, even if they haven’t heard it before.

Our lessons might look like this: A student coming into a lesson and mentioning they have heard a piece of music from a film over the weekend, we have a listen as a group. Our teachers are then able to adapt their lesson with the music just mentioned, while unfolding a key learning outcome through it. For the teacher this might mean in the moment working it out by ear, simplifying it, changing the key, collaboratively arranging it over the space of the lesson, etc.

Through the course of our lessons we are prioritising not just piano playing but musical language learning too, this means not just the physical playing of music but also understanding how to listen to and comprehend the music we play. We hope to become more autonomous musical speakers, just like our teachers, understanding the foundations to access music from listening. We also cherish and promote creativity as a way to realise an individuals learning in their own way; At WeKey we are not just performers, we are expressing ourselves through the language that we are learning.