Playing the piano is a multi-sensory experience. It involves three of the senses – tactile, visual and aural. To really create music, a pianist must engage each of those senses to be successful. And, to learn to play the piano, it is equally as important to engage all the senses from the first day of study.
Learning to play the piano using the pentatonic scale is a method of study that appeals especially to adult learners. Why? Because it is immediately gratifying and because success comes easily through a multi-sensory learning style approach.
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Lots of parents want to get their kids started with the piano without having to commit to regular piano lessons right at the start. As a piano teacher I wholeheartedly recommend starting out this way as it allows your child to become comfortable with the basics before you send off to a teacher, which can actually be very daunting for a young child with no experience of the piano. Unfortunately, most parents aren’t sure how to get started because they don’t know how to teach piano to kids. There are a couple of things that you’ll need to avoid doing in order to keep your child motivated and help them improve steadily.
Avoid Boring Exercises
When you’re trying to teach piano to kids, you’ll find very early on that there has to be a certain amount of repetition – Unfortunately, that’s just one of the things that doesn’t change when learning any instrument. No matter how much we advance the teaching methods and techniques, we’re still going to have to repeat things quite a lot, because a large part of playing the piano is about muscle memory, and your fingers’ ability to make tiny movements without your conscious mind having to think about it. Continue Reading…
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