http://www.piano4kids.com/wp/2009/01/18/teaching-music-to-very-young-children/ Teaching young kids to play the piano Thu, 17 May 2012 02:31:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.piano4kids.com/wp/2009/01/18/teaching-music-to-very-young-children/#comment-2360 Vedanti Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:45:10 +0000 http://www.piano4kids.com/wp/2009/01/18/teaching-music-to-very-young-children/#comment-2360 You should play the itrnsument you like the most or you will become bored and quit like 90% of the people who try to learn an itrnsument. It's not easy and you're going to have to enjoy your progress and have a real desire to go on. You should also get the best quality itrnsument you can possibly afford. If it doesn't sound good or is a pain to play you'll quit. This is the truest and most important thing to consider IMHO.Learning to sight-read music can help you with any itrnsument and give you a good background. But guitar requires a completely different strength, dexterity and technique to be built up over time. Finding notes and chords on a guitar is completely different than finding them on a piano. Learning to convert written music to keys on a piano by habit can actually get in the way if you try to change itrnsuments.Also If you end up with a teacher who will only teach at the speed you can learn to sight-read find somebody else. Some famous guitar players can't even do it. It takes a long time and there are other things you could be learning and playing at the same time. Chords, scales, etc This will keep you more interested and you'll be able to start playing actual songs much more quickly. You'll start to develop different playing techniques and hand dexterity sooner I would take what you heard with a grain of salt. Many people who really master an itrnsument start playing that itrnsument at an early age.Picking parts out of music with your ears has nothing to do with playing piano. That's in your head. You learn how to do it as try to learn an itrnsument and try to pick out the parts for your itrnsument in songs figure out how they're playing them The more you listen to music that way the better you get at it. When you learn more about how to play your itrnsument what you hear in music makes even more sense to you and you can copy songs by ear rather easily. Some people practice and develop this skill and some people don't. But, it has nothing to do with what particular itrnsument you learn how to play. Any manual dexterity you build on the piano would do you little good on the guitar. That's like saying if you learn to juggle you can type. It's two totally different things Quickly finding notes and chords on a guitar and playing them cleanly is something you're only going to develop by practicing and practicing GUITAR. I've seen very good piano players struggle through 3 chord folk songs with several second pauses between chord changes on my guitar lol. You should play the itrnsument you like the most or you will become bored and quit like 90% of the people who try to learn an itrnsument. It’s not easy and you’re going to have to enjoy your progress and have a real desire to go on. You should also get the best quality itrnsument you can possibly afford. If it doesn’t sound good or is a pain to play you’ll quit. This is the truest and most important thing to consider IMHO.Learning to sight-read music can help you with any itrnsument and give you a good background. But guitar requires a completely different strength, dexterity and technique to be built up over time. Finding notes and chords on a guitar is completely different than finding them on a piano. Learning to convert written music to keys on a piano by habit can actually get in the way if you try to change itrnsuments.Also If you end up with a teacher who will only teach at the speed you can learn to sight-read find somebody else. Some famous guitar players can’t even do it. It takes a long time and there are other things you could be learning and playing at the same time. Chords, scales, etc This will keep you more interested and you’ll be able to start playing actual songs much more quickly. You’ll start to develop different playing techniques and hand dexterity sooner I would take what you heard with a grain of salt. Many people who really master an itrnsument start playing that itrnsument at an early age.Picking parts out of music with your ears has nothing to do with playing piano. That’s in your head. You learn how to do it as try to learn an itrnsument and try to pick out the parts for your itrnsument in songs figure out how they’re playing them The more you listen to music that way the better you get at it. When you learn more about how to play your itrnsument what you hear in music makes even more sense to you and you can copy songs by ear rather easily. Some people practice and develop this skill and some people don’t. But, it has nothing to do with what particular itrnsument you learn how to play. Any manual dexterity you build on the piano would do you little good on the guitar. That’s like saying if you learn to juggle you can type. It’s two totally different things Quickly finding notes and chords on a guitar and playing them cleanly is something you’re only going to develop by practicing and practicing GUITAR. I’ve seen very good piano players struggle through 3 chord folk songs with several second pauses between chord changes on my guitar lol.

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