Piano teacher for family

How fun! I highly recommend Heidi at Palaka Music (based out of Oakland/Rockridge). She teaches preschool through adult level piano and hosts other fun music classes and events. I enrolled my toddler in the Preschool Prodigies course and we both loved it and learned so much! Their website is: www.palakamusic.com 

Unfortunately, our family did not have a good experience with Ms. Heidi at Palaka Music in Oakland Rockridge. She would notify us at the very last-minute that she had cancelled class OR we would be waiting outside the door waiting for her arrival for 20 minutes and she would never show up.  We were really hopeful this would work out for our young kids as we also supported her kickstarter fund to help build her new location from the Laurel District to the Rockridge area. She offered make-up classes for the time that she had to cancel last-minute and even then did she not show up. A lot of her cancellations were due to family emergencies, which is understandable, but they happened too frequently for the short time we were there. 

I would highly recommend Sallie Hanna-Rhyne, in south Berkeley, to your family. She has adult and child students and has been working with my now 17 year old daughter since she was 5 and my 7 year old son for the last 2 years. We have moved out of Berkeley and still come to see Sallie weekly from Alameda. She has made learning piano a joyful experience and I cannot recommend her more. (510) 843-1963

I tried a piano teacher with my 5-year-old but he couldn't sit through the lessons and I will try again in the medium term, but I will say I've had a LOT of success teaching him piano myself through the Hoffman Academy YouTube channel. I put on a lesson almost every at breakfast and I've taught him 3 songs so far. To be fair, I played piano for 12 years from being 5 years old myself so I believe that I have a strong sense of technique; I just didn't remember how I learned piano or what the right curriculum staging was.