Does anyone teach their kids PIANO on their own?
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sunflower2005:
The blog looks great. Thanks for sharing.
I had write out what I had learned and share it in my blog.. hope the little notes will help those who's want to teach piano at home... -
hi sunflower,
can share where do you get the piano books mentioned in your blog? from the Tr? -
chamonix:
I agree!sashimi:
Considering that my daughter spends a mere 30 mins a week at the music school, then schellen, I, my brother and sometimes my mom, all have to spend something like 3 hours+ coaching her at home, it does feel more like we are the piano teachers instead of the music sch teacher. I often feel that the music school should be paying us parents to teach our kids music.
My kids' violin teacher told them directly that the 30 minutes is for him to pick on their playing. They should practise hard at home and not during his lessons. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.
I suppose it boils down to expectations from both sides. If we parents don't chip in at home, we'll have to accept slower progress (and in my case, more scoldings from teachers). That's fine if we just want the kids to learn an instrument for fun. But as a musician yourself, I doubt you can stand someone making noise at the piano instead of music. So, no choice, you got to help supervising.
At least you have others to share the work. I have to supervise the practices all by myself, and I'm not even musically trained. 
My sons are learning the piano now, but they are taught by professionals. Someone asked me why I didn't just teach them myself and save the money, since I also play the piano. I wish! Knowing how to play doesn't mean you know how to teach, or how to assess your child's progress. I think some parents are probably great at this, but I know myself...so I decided to leave it to the professionals!
Having said that, for DS1, the lesson is not very long, so i 'teach' him at home by spending a lot of time supervising his practice. In addition, where I think it's helpful, I do my own teaching of the stuff that the teacher hasn't covered. I let him play my old old old piano books for sight reading purposes, eg the easier John Thompson, Michael Aaron, Schaum books (are these still in print?)
Actually, on this note, does anyone have any suggestions on improving sight reading? My DS1 is really lazy to read and is quite weak at it. He has a good ear, and can play a piece from memory, so he doesn't really bother reading the notes after like the second or third day of playing the piece. He seems ok when I get him to do note writing etc. but when I put a piece in front of him and ask him to play ... ... -
jce:
Phankao, you're right, it's something I don't quite understand as well (which explains why I don't choose Suzuki method as my norm). Middle c is much easier to recognise than the high c. But the main focal point of Suzuki method is repetition and rhythm, not so much note reading.
Ok - i found out it's bc suzuki is developed from European method(suzuki learnt music in Germany), which avoids the middle registers for young kids. -
Sight reading - comes with practice. The more pieces one plays the better the reading. Recognising patterns is another way eg being able to spot triads, scales. Must train the child to read ahead so once the child starts the piece, use a piece of paper to cover up a few notes ahead. This makes the child look ahead.
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jce:
Sight reading - comes with practice. The more pieces one plays the better the reading. Recognising patterns is another way eg being able to spot triads, scales. Must train the child to read ahead so once the child starts the piece, use a piece of paper to cover up a few notes ahead. This makes the child look ahead.
jce, thanks for the tips! I guess it's just practice, practice, practice then! (I hated practicing as a child learning the piano, and now I've got to sit through my DS1's practicing!) will try your cover up method too, though I think he needs to be more proficient at recognizing the notes and patterns first. -
reiner:
reiner,hi sunflower,
can share where do you get the piano books mentioned in your blog? from the Tr?
I got it from Sonare music sch, located at Compass point #04-08 -
Compass point… hmmmm… too far for me yah… how much you got them?
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reiner:
Compass point... hmmmm... too far for me yah... how much you got them?
Piano lesson made easy $9.00 -
Hi,
I started teaching my 2.8yo dd middle C 3 days ago. She's so happy counting 1234 that she went on and on but her finger did not move! :stupid:
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