ARIZONA STUDIO-ONLINE PERFORMING ARTS — Attraction in Chandler

She comes across as very kind initially but is somewhat emotionally unstable. She often gets in trouble with the families she teaches. She will beg other clients for positive reviews when she's in conflict with some clients. I was surprised when she asked me to write a review on her behalf...Sounded strange right? I was shocked when she fired some of her families/clients and she bragged about...should have been a wake up call for me right!!! She cancelled our lessons without notice (still owes us that paid month as of today) simply because I refused to change our Wednesdays time slot which we held for over 2 years. She said she needed to accommodate a larger family that really needed that specific time...She called and sent over 3 texts to me in less than an hour time frame... she became hysteriscal when I wasn't ready/unsure to change ( school has just started and our son had other extracurricular activities). I was upset and told her it wasn't urgent that she called/sent messages as there was no clear emergencies. She's really unpredictable and just like that over the phone she said " don't show up next week at my door, send me your address and I'll refund you the prepaid month". I was very disappointed as adults that's not how we should treat one another, this is my 1st negative review ever... No money received as of today ( she fired us second week of August), but our son is now practicing at our church where he also joined the kids choir. I sent her a message to claim the money but to no avail. It's really sad I had to write this on your behalf, you own a business and should act with some professionalism madam. The Lord Always keeps another door open when...

I met Michelle through Thumbtack. I had never taken piano lessons ever and being a 28 year old adult, I was skeptical as to if it's even possible for me to learn well. All of my fears were shattered by Michelle. She is extremely extremely extremely good at what she does. In my experience, most teachers for adults are on one of the two extremes, either they hand-hold you to the extent of spoon-feeding you or they don't assist much at all. Michelle has the perfect balance between the two, she spends a great amount of time and effort to get to know you well and your abilities. Then she carefully drafts a plan for you based on your goals and executes it like a champ! I think she is just magical, but I know that these amazing teaching skills that she has comes from decades of experience after having successfully taught more than a 1000 students! Her rates are very reasonable and more importantly, she really cares about her students on a personal level. I honestly don't know if there are words enough to describe how lucky I am to have her as my...

Perhaps she is good with kids but as an adult student I had a bad experience. When I arrived for my trial lesson, she asked me why I had not brought any music to work on even though that was not an expectation she communicated beforehand. When I told her the pieces I could have brought, she refused to work with me on them because I'm not ready for them yet. I explained to her several times that I understood this, and that it is precisely the reason I'm looking for a teacher, but she continued to be very defensive about it. She spoke badly of her other adult students to me and overall I felt she was being somewhat hostile.

Maybe she acted this way because she has had bad adult students in the past, but overall I think she needs to work on setting reasonable expectations without being discouraging. Explaining the path towards the goal (the pieces I want to play), however long it might be, would have been much more helpful than simply refusing to...