u/AwarenessOk2359

I'm an adult self taught pianist for a couple of years and I have a degree in music theory. I've tried two piano teachers so far for about 5 lessons each, and neither of them have taught me anything. I'm not sure if this is normal or if I should fire the 2nd one and try a 3rd one.

I go to the lesson, I perform the stuff he told me to practice, then we either continue practicing that or we start practicing the next thing, which is currently a bunch of scales and chords. I know what scales and chords are, I know how to practice them, and I know how to finger them or how to look up fingerings. No other lesson is imparted. When I ask for critique on technique or articulation or anything personalized, I'm told it's "good" and we can "worry more about that later". Sometimes he tries to explain about the chord theory basics like what the circle of 5ths is or what an inversion is, until I remind him I have a music theory degree and already know that, so we just go back to practicing.

So basically I'm paying these people a dollar per minute to tell me to do the next page in a workbook and then watch me do it. This is not worth money. What I want to know is if this is a typical starting plan that will likely improve later, or if both of these teachers are just bad.

I own my own domain and I can receive mail at any address of that domain, for example a@foo.com, b@foo.com, etc. I just received a spam email from Verizon, addressed to cometeer@foo.com, which I obviously only used for Cometeer. Beware: Cometeer sells its customers' email addresses and who knows what other information.