Start your child to play piano by number

The idea of the numbers game plan has been around for a long time for. In effect, the numbering of the keys is just an extension of the numbering of the fingers, the first in the early 19th Century by Carl Czerny has happened.

In 1950 it was Emenee organ, a keyboard that had the numbers are printed on the keys, and a book of Songs "number" to go with him. There were also "play with color 'products. The concept was always a quick way to find people began keyboard.TheThe reason is that reading conventional sheet music is not easy, not for adults, and certainly not for children. Why should it be starting piano "easy?"

Talk with teachers more conventional and say that music is serious and difficult and not easy for beginners will be made for the piano. The truth is that piano students historically have a 80% + rate of exit. 8 of 10 quit within the first year! Why? Teachers blame the children, perhaps teachersare to blame.

Do you know of a method for everything that has a 80% rate of failure is a success? A golf swing? A model? A diet regime? It is intended to work!

Here are a number piano some of my private collection of teaching practice: 90 of the 100 children who start playing with numbers are still a year later, almost all the conventional music-sheet transition. And almost all of which continue from year to year because they are entitled to learn how totheir rhythm and began to enjoy the piano at once.

Who cares if a child, the usual happy ending piano playing songs by number, and some pieces of sheet music and a year later? The choice is to terminate the child to have music at all.

When a piano method does not work, the method is wrong, so simple. Experts do not say anything, but common sense tells you it's true: When an old pianoThe work is the wrong method,

But why use numbers to teach beginning piano? What about notation (sheet music), so confused that almost everyone, especially children? The answer is that the numbers are understandable for everyone. The figures are essentially one-dimensional, and conventional notes contains terms from many dimensions that provide the information needed to play, for example, Jingle Bells.

conventional sheetMusic and traditional music teachers require a child to comprehend at least four things to "success"

Finding the right piano keys to play (a big task for a child)
Being able to forget the correct name for this piano keys (difficult)
Use your fingers to play the keys on the right (even more difficult, especially at the beginning)
Play the piano keys at the right time (Add above three)

These four elements are overwhelming for all but the most musically gifted children. Is music just for the musically gifted, or should each be able to play the piano's ability? Children are often devastated by the failure of the ridiculous, the conventional system. No wonder, to end it.

I'm not saying that the four elements are not necessary, I say that almost all children do not conform to this conventional system, as a starting point.

We need a better basis for children andPiano>.

Playing the piano "by numbers" requires only one thing: Now is the right piano in the best possible way. Believe me, after I had thousands of children, enough to do well. It 's a good starting point for everyone. Just press the number keys, so that sounds like the song you know.
Music is not just for musicians and teachers, and the stars and artists and record companies, but also for children, an essential part of childhood.

Why Planby numbers?

The basis for the musical math. Nobody asks the children to math algebraic formula can get started. We can start adding and subtracting for years until we demand more. Piano numbers gives children the same "soft launch". And 'logical to start at their level.

The numbers are an essential part of music. If number is the piano keys with stickers, do not do more than is the classical "intervals". The numbersChildren learn with this system are the same tasks figure, the relationship between the keys of the piano and classical music. If a child plays five piano keys # 1 and # key they play the same key combination known as the "fifth" of classical music.

All learned to play the piano "by number" music is of value if the transition to conventional sheet. Playing with the figure "is a strengthening of the classical technique, a" prequel "Traditional teachers have unwittingly made to leave the unintended expense of their students.

It is easy for children to start with major success. Far from lowering the bar for all and forever, just for the first year that a child begins to study music. The benefits are enormous.

Preview the number of elements involved in playing the piano "with"

Your child will have one row of numbers, from left to right like a book. There is nodecode other symbols. There are agreements and without accompaniment. The child should not play with both hands, unless this is what comes naturally to them. The object is the child must piano sounds create the song, you can recognize one.

Recognition is the key: just look at the smile on his face when he actually played a song I know realize. There is an immediate increase self-esteem, and I have the pleasure of every day

I threwStickers on the piano, I can do now?

Child, you should put the stickers on the piano. Kids emulate what you do. If you are interested and playing the piano, want to do the same. I can not stress this enough. Even if you only try to play early at the sight of you tried the piano is enough to let them know that look, too. Making the most fun can begin.

Open the book of songs and try to just so you knowas it is. You're the teacher. You have to see what children are trying to do, too. Piano by number is so easy for adults to share a few seconds, you get the idea into one.

No matter which finger or hand that is used. If you or your child uses a finger, most likely with the index finger, all right. The point is to start playing. And 'better with a finger, as to be confused with a torrent of commands and not to play in all games.

Here is a very important suggestion: a wastePraise your child. Tell them they are great for playing Jingle Bells. Tell them you want to hear another song. Tell them you want another, if it still seems upset. Amazing. It 's amazing. Sit down with them and listen. Are included.

Stay be directly involved, seems to have begun down your child, play a song after themselves. Then back away and let them alone. If you need help, there is nothing so complicated that help them understand. Piano "by the number out so easy and satisfying for a child.

My work in teaching private to a son in a "repairer is." The inventor is a child who:
Game plan a bit 'every time they go to a
He loves to experiment with new songs
It is not the opinion of anyone else in the game concerns
Try to play songs they hear on television or elsewhere
He is confident and curious about the piano
Think piano is simply
It justTracks

A piano weighs maybe at least an average yield of 500-700 pounds. There are another 700 pounds of moving the child has sole control in your house? My point is that only play Jingle Bells on a monster of 700 pounds is sufficient to raise the esteem of the humble child.

Never express refusal.

The only mistake can make your baby is not at the piano. Praise, praise, and then when you're bored, go play the pianothemselves. Will again and again, and so we become.

The sentence: 'Is Easy Piano, "was in fact an expression of my students. I asked a child, after about a month,' Well, Dave, how are you? Even as the piano? "

Dave, about seven years, said: "Plan is easy!" with a smile that indicated that someone knows Silly Stuff piano. I just had the title for the book there. Thanks, Dave.

By the way, Dave is now the music, just play BachPiece and sight reading is not just a piece of conventional notes I made before. Yes, it took two years. But Dave does not (practice) the piano without being asked, because it is a fun activity.

Dave was able to discover that the piano is fun for people who can not read the first conventional notes to yourself. In my opinion Dave had a probability of 100% of these "lazy" when it started with facts and figures then carefullyMusic arranged for his passage to the blade. I have always tried to find its level, and help to its rhythm.

How can you teach a child the first?

To be honest, I do play everything. The children are always frightened and intimidated by the idea of piano lessons. "(For the sake of accuracy, I only do" home visits ". I am the rarest of the teacher, the child's house will travel and teach where they feel most comfortable at home.)

We must demystifypiano lessons as quickly as possible and get the fun started. After the children memorize the position of middle C, begin to play songs immediately known.

All you have to do is say, 'Dave, play the piano, the keys are numbered, just like in the book. "
Children play well known songs such as Jingle Bells immediately. Actually, I have a child who could not play Jingle Bells in the first two minutes of the first lesson. And then five more songs. And then ten and thenwinds.

An important point: I break all the tension with humor and fun and games Silly Songs same as soon as the child begins to walk, see, and children roam. Think the music is hard work, in order to break with fun. Once a child is a little bit of fun (silly song) prepared for a bit 'of work.

Fun, work, fun work. Watch their faces and see exactly what is right for the moment. Children show what to do! Keep it in the back doorTask for a short period and will follow, because music has its own intrinsic pleasure. Children and music, work and fun in a simple combination, are a natural partnership.

PLAN is simple and the study of singing kit will be a starting point for music to children. Almost all children can and must make a transition from counts in traditional music. For example, there are gifted children I teach, have Attention Deficit Disorder and allow themto play music from a number, until I took my hand to get more than deciphering sense of security.

I try to go any further step lesson on reading music, and when the child is not ready for the transition, we stop and go have fun with games and counting and numbers. This patient approach "Bait and Switch, I believe, will always work with each child.

The numbers are like training wheels on a bike as a child. If you are comfortable with taking them off to know the first thing you willto learn.

Perhaps only the eye of a professional can determine the exact moment of this transition from numbers to traditional music. I also recognize that not all parents have the luxury of almost a teacher come to their homes once a week. But the principles are the same.
How will you know when your child is ready? As a general rule, it is always better than before.

Give your child the chance to explore the plan at their own pace. Ifchildren seem to lose interest, you should renew your interest. If they see that groped continue to play the piano, we always try to be back, too.

Indeed, one thing that I try in finding candidates for the transition to traditional music sheet is arrogance: I want a child to say: "This number just stuff!" This is when children are ready for conventional musical scores. Remember that at this time (each child is different, one week, one month and one year) of each child to be Ableplay dozens of songs by a number from memory, and dozens more with the book in front of them.

A child piano has a first positive experience, and who knows their way around the piano, is a much better candidate for traditional music lessons as a child succeed is simply discarded piano broadly conventional classroom and expect.

How can my piano child numbers?

Plan numbers when they are introduced byto understand a parent or a teacher, offers the best platform possible. There is no confusion, discipline or violence involved.

I use several floors easy to get started?

Absolutely not. We created a series of a complete system for the case to investigate "the plan" meets the long-term needs of our students.

The average child will benefit immediately from piano to play in a positive atmosphere, from the piano or perhaps is EasyChristmas Carol Kit so I can continue to read music. Here are some of the advantages in creating a child piano in figures:

Learn piano at home, where a child feels well
Use a system that is immediately comprehensible: data
increase the confidence of simple, almost imperceptible, small steps

If your child all the profits piano "number" is a positive attitude towards the plane, everyone is a winner. The objective isSee atmosphere to start playing the piano in your child a positive, and then maybe with tutorials.

I'm not sure, plays the piano "by number" for more than the first experience. In my private practice I "use the button, the child has started, and then just start with conventional sheet music, children are used numbers as a way to defuse the tensions felt to learn the art of reading sheet music complex traditional.

Practical advicefor parents: Do's and Don'ts

They encourage the child

You do not criticize their play

You sit there and listen to them play

Do not demand that we practice. "

You were asked to "play" the piano

Do not set a deadline as "practice for half an hour." If a child does not do it on their own, it is useless to force them to do so. Five minutes a day is all it needs when a child is fun.

Did you play the piano. Teach in homes where the dailyMost young people are eager to try the piano, because his mother can not Dad, and older children play.

Do not play the piano seriously. If you think it is fun, children will too.

Do this if your child does not seem to want to try: in addition to piano and began even try. You'd be surprised how quickly your child decides that he wants, too.

Do not even think of Carnegie Hall. Do not use the minimum of pressure. If you pressChildren too hard, turn once, and it is difficult if not impossible, to get them back.

Do you think a tutor for your child if they show interest. But not for a while '. Allow the child to explore the piano alone.

Do not expect your child to things like "finger right" or "play the rhythm to understand." Everything that you want the first child is on it, the day sitting in that great big piano for a few minutes. There will be plenty of time toInterest to pursue, where and when the child decides he wants to take lessons. And if they start classes, will already have a relationship with the instrument. It is much easier to study a conventional child of musical interest, if they think they can play!

Games are all about the music:

"You are a song to play, then play a song Mama." "We see that play Jingle Bells fastest without mistakes." "Let's Play each of our favoritesSong. "" Let's play the song back! (Kids love this!)

"I'm going to try a song with both hands." "I'll play three songs, and play three songs." "If this song sound happy or sad?" "I use a lot of different fingers on this track." "Let's play Name That Tune." Let's play musical chairs. "

Do not be impatient. Expect nothing and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Expect a lot of conventional energy and the child will lose interest once they do not like to see. They make it easy to please.

Mom and Dad that you have to practice.

A case in point is to force the children to practice. "I was a student, six, who was a great, hot guy, awkward, sensitive, athletic and curious. I have all my usual methods for him began. He was a repairman, making up songs, play a few minutes every day or so. It 'was pretty good forward, learning in the first five notes of the traditional> Personal notes. I never gave orders, or task, but I brought him more known and more conventional, which has had the opportunity to explore this week. He tried again, the pieces that I left.

After five months, is a stupid rookie mistakes song called "My Wigwam", was fascinated, and they play at home after his mother's account, 500 times a day. His father hated that song. I tried to see the parents that it was important for the child to learn by heart and just a songhe likes. I invited them to a bad, be thankful you have a child, the piano is to have its turkish, with no one to nag him practice.

But Dad built a new program called allocation and began to force the child to a half hour days of practice with Dad strictly adhered to, in turn very unpleasant for the child by the thought was to play piano fun.

After two weeks I have seen the child to give up and want out. I saidthe child that he does not need to play the piano when he did not want to be funny, and it still Would start the day. This was a child, who had waited through the living room window for me to go for our crazy, fun lessons for five months.

After a month ruled that the parents' plan was "simply not for him."

How do I choose a piano teacher?

Carefully. Do the following to the list. Some items are obviously difficult to find at the bottom, butThey will not find when they are looking for.

Find a teacher who has a funny, caring nature. Do not select the block that great teacher that everyone says is great, but a distant professional. You can return to this teacher if your child shows promise and the elderly. Start with a person friendly, professional and responsible with children.

Find someone with the patience of a kindergarten teacher.

You need someone who is ready, slowly, to emphasize, do not go, it is notPerformance skills as building very patient. The truth is that music and the piano study is difficult and takes a brilliant, patient teacher, to inspire children. Look for a teacher who also teaches music theory for children, not just the piano and has a good reputation for teasing the music theory. Kids know how the music inside, but it takes incredible patience from the teacher.

Try a teacher come to your home to find. This is not easy orcheap, but for the child at the beginning, is often a difference between the entry and exit. A child is more comfortable at home. You can view and assess the way in which teachers and method. "From the child perspective, you do not have a child as uncomfortable as a beginner sitting in a Music Studio is a foreign visa, unless the teacher really be treated on the implementation of children in the structure of fun and games.

If you can not find a 'home visit' to ask teachers to sit out the study of teacherRoom until the child feels comfortable. It 'hard enough to understand the music, much less a stranger in a strange house. Make your child as comfortable as possible.

Here is my most important point. Listen to your child. If you continue to say that they love teaching, which is too hard to start another teacher and again. Children do not lie to you: if they say often, the piano is too difficult, the method is wrong. Get a different, a nice teacher. Each child isunique and forgotten, many teachers in their passion to teach his method.

I would prefer a child to love and play the piano for six simple songs as happy as I hate playing the piano grind some complex piece like a robot to perform unnecessary.

E 'enough time to be beaten on work stuff lasts for a child to do so.

The result:

A child, the house has a positive start on the piano in private, rather, the transition toTeaching outside the home.

In the old days, before radio and television, the piano was the center of entertainment for the whole family. The whole family at least wanted to play an instrument.

I think the top floor to play with the numbers "helps move towards the ideal of a family, perhaps unattainable, but noble. There can be only one good result of more and more people are discovering the joys of the question and piano music, not as humble their current skills.

And 'betterPlaying the piano to start with a simple system, the controls are conventional and confused with a flood of products, and then try to quit.

What I try to do as a teacher is an individual communication excitement I felt at the piano as a child for each child.

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