Piano for Kids

Every individual is a unique and very special person. Our DNA is made up of pieces from all of our ancestors. If you go back twenty five (25) generations on any one line of your ancestors, it would be possible to identify up to 33,554,432 individuals (sort of mind boggling isn’t it?). This shows how important it is to learn and understand each of your students as the unique individual they are. It is no easy challenge, but one that is extremely important.

Your ways of teaching must be tailored to your individual student. Each will have their own way of learning and retaining the information you give them. For your young beginning students the Animal Notes lend themselves well to varying your teaching to a young child. Animals are fun, entertaining and can be given interesting personalities. Take the cats; they can be playful, loving, mischievous, and personable. Their whiskers are easily identified. For a plain middle C it is just a ledger line. What child can understand that or maintain the information, but whiskers of a cat are something a child can identify with, and giving the cat a personality can be a lot of fun.

Make up stories about the little animal that relates to the child that he/she can remember. Remind them often of this in relation to the note they are working with. Have fun with this yourself and with your student. NO it is not the old traditional method of teaching music, but what is more important; tradition or using your creativity and imagination to make the notes of music a basic and permit part of your student’s knowledge.

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