The advantages of taking summer lessons: 1. Summertime is a time when students can really focus on practice without the pressures from school. 2. Piano practice is a better pastime, than television and video games. 3. Children actually have the time to practice more and add new music to the repertoire list, learn new skills or try a new piano method. The disadvantages of not taking piano lessons for the whole summer: 1. Taking summer off results in students failing to move forward with their playing. 2. Piano practice is a better pastime, than television and video games. 3. The teacher will try very hard to bring the student back to their previous level of proficiency, but the experience will be frustrating for students.  The teacher has to help the student stumble through things that they used to play with ease, having to re-teach old things without demoralizing the student. and...