I’m not saying that the above four elements aren’t necessary. Kids are often devastated by "failure" at this ridiculous, conventional system of piano teaching. These four elements are overwhelming to all but the most musically gifted children. Play those piano keys at exactly the correct point in time (add this to the above three) Use the correct fingers to play those keys (even harder, especially at first)Ĥ. Be able to use the correct names for these piano keys (hard to remember)ģ. Find the correct piano keys to play (a big task for a child)Ģ.
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How To Begin Conventional PianoĬonventional sheet music and conventional piano teachers demand that a child comprehend four things in order to succeed:ġ. Numbers are essentially one-dimensional, whereas conventional sheet music incorporates concepts from many dimensions to convey the information necessary to play, say, Jingle Bells. The answer is that numbers are understood by everyone. I'm glad they're going slow. But why use numbers to teach beginning piano? What is there about conventional music notation (sheet music) that so confuses almost everyone, and specifically children? The professionals may tell you otherwise, but common sense tells you this is true: if a piano method does not work, the method is wrong. If A Piano Method Doesn't Work, It's Wrong Who cares if a child who would normally have quit piano is happily playing songs by number and a few pieces of sheet music a year later? The choice is to have that child quit piano altogether. If a piano method does not work, the method is wrong, it’s as simple as that. Here are a few figures from my private piano teaching practice: 90 out of 100 children who start Piano by Number are still playing a year later, almost all having made the transition to conventional sheet music. And almost all of those children continue, year after year, because they are allowed to learn at their own pace, and started having fun with the piano right away. Do you know any method for anything that has an 90% failure rate and calls itself a success? A golf swing? A sewing pattern? A diet regime? It’s supposed to work! Try a song on our online piano: The piano teachers blame the kids, but perhaps the piano teachers are to blame. More than 9 out of 10 quit within the first year! Why? The truth is that piano students have historically had an 90+% quit rate. Talk to most conventional piano teachers and they’ll say that music is serious and difficult, and piano cannot be made easy for beginners. Why should starting piano be “easy?” Can Piano Be Made Easy? The reason for this is that reading music is not easy, not for adults, and certainly not for children. In the 1950’s, there was the Emenee organ, a keyboard which had numbers printed on the keys, and a book of songs “by number” to go with it. Czerny, one of the most famous piano teachers of all time, was a pupil of the great Beethoven. This was first done systematically by Carl Czerny early in the 19th Century. Numbering the keys is just an extension of numbering the fingers. The idea of playing piano by number has been around for a long time.
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