The Problems Encountered in Piano Lessons at High School of Fine Arts and Recommendations to These Problems (The Sample of Black Sea Region)

The aim of this research was to find out the problems that the students encountered in the piano lessons at high school of fine arts and to offer commendations to these problems. the research was a descriptive one which is based on the literature searching model directed to determine current situation and it is prepared by the methods of searching sources and applying questionnare. the result of the analyzed data collected with the questionnaires was converted into percentages and frequency tables. the study group consisted of 265 students who were educated in the 10th, 11thand 12th grades chosen from six high school of fine arts in the region of black sea in turkey. the results indicated that the academic environment effecting the piano courses were in sufficient. the weekly teaching hours of the course should be increased as to how and in which ways the students should be practiced. the techniques and the methods were not applied correctly when practicing and the piano repertuar were not prepared according to the level of students. in addition, suggestions for teaching more efficient and effective piano courses were improved.