Why is it essential to learn how to read notes in piano education? or you dont have yo learn notes?
Learning to read notes is the very core of piano education. Notes are the alphabet of music. If you work long enough, and how long exactly is long enough varies to the effort, talent and age of the sudent, but if you do it, endless roads will unfold before you.
Regardless of your favourite genre, be it classical, jazz, pop or rock, you can play every track as long as you can read notes. After a certain point in your education, you can even begin to educate yourself. You find the notes of a piece which you love so much that is outside of your repertoire with your teacher, and you can read and practice it. Perhaps you have completed an education on the basic study methods and obtained the basic knowledge and now you have a techical book, let's say you want to get faster, from that point on, the notes can be your teachers. Without the ability to read notes, you have no access to the words of millions of teachers (composers). Why would you want to be left out? However it is also possible to learn piano without learn notes too
It can be hard to read notes for some students. Yet it can be made easy with the right piano methods. It can be a discouraging mistake to push too hard too soon. Do you find reading notes to be too hard? We can start by working on only two notes. This is the point where the teacher's approach makes a difference. It falls upon the teacher to assess the sudents' level of talent, perception and dedication. The teacher should be able to assess how much to push each individual student. It would do little in your improvement to keep playing the same easy pieces. On the other hand, attempting to play too advanced pieces too soon can be discouraging and demotivational.