Learning to play the piano is not a day's work. This will take months and years, it will require the help of experienced teachers and the availability of a good tool. However, you can easily introduce your child to the piano on your own, and if it is successful, you can contact a music educational institution for further education.
Necessary
A self-instruction manual for playing the piano
Instructions
Step 1
The first impression of the instrument should be positive. When a child sits down at the piano, it is important that the chair is comfortable, of sufficient height, without armrests, and that the legs rest either on the floor or on a special footrest. Let your child get to know the keys, see them, touch them, listen and compare their sound. Only after that you can start the first lesson.
Step 2
Pay attention to the young musician's movements. Place your fingers on top of the keys, firmly and smoothly at the same time. Hand position is equally important. The brush should be rounded. At first, you can put an onion or an apple in your palm so that the young musician remembers this state. The wrist should not fall below the level of the keys. The elbows are slightly out to the sides, but not tense. Posture is strictly straight, shoulders are straightened. It is important to learn this even before the child learns musical notation.
Step 3
Get creative with music theory lessons and turn them into fun games for your toddler. For example, ask the musician to find and match notes in the textbook and on the keys. Give an explanation of their names, tell us about the division of keys into octaves. Explain the notation for fingering. Piano notes are marked with the thumb as a one, the index finger as a two, etc. From the first lessons, the child must correctly understand and use the fingering.
Step 4
In comprehending musical notation, one cannot do without explaining the durations and periods. Show clearly what a whole note is, how it looks and sounds, then move on to halves and quarters. This can be easily shown by dividing an orange or apple into 2, 4, 8 parts.
Step 5
Move on to exercise. Play the same loss with the child in turn with the left and right hands. Try brute force. And only after confidently performing the busting with each hand separately, you can begin to master the game in two hands and study the chords.
Step 6
There are quite a few methods of teaching musical notation. A child learns easily both through color “helpers” (coloring notes in different colors), and through associations - figurative “helpers”, and playing dictation, by letter, by ear. Any method of acquaintance with the piano is the result of long work, the personal experience of a teacher or parent. There are nuances in pedagogical techniques that cannot be conveyed in brochures and tutorials, they are actually based on intuition.
