Children's Piano Lessons

Unless your child can play the piano with both hands, we'd recommend that we start here.
 

Content: Your piano teacher will use a variety of games and a selected method book to develop all the musical skills that your child needs
These are the skills we'll be looking to develop:

• Pattern recognition
• Note recognition (on the piano)
• Rhythm recognition
• Using music to communicate
• How music can communicate emotions

A typical 30 minute lesson:

• Introduction - Review of material set
• A fun game introducing concepts of the new material
• Another game introducing another aspect of the new material
• Introducing the new material
• A review of the new piano work that has been set
• You piano teacher will not usually spend more than 10 minutes per activity

Practice: To start with 1 minute each day or even each week is fine. 

Learning in this way is a completely new experience for the kids. We want to make sure that they are encouraged to play as opposed to forced. We must allow your children time to get used to it. After a short while, it becomes habitual and no prompting is needed. Just like brushing our teeth.

Once we finish this piano course, the children generally want to use their piano lessons to start the Beginners Piano Course. Either that or choose from a selection of piano pieces at a beginner level.