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by john aschenbrenner
The best kids piano songs are those that use only the white keys. The reason for this is that kids find the black keys confusing at first. The ...
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by john aschenbrenner
Autism and piano may not seem to go together, but autistic and/or disabled children have amazing musical abilities. I’ve also seen ADHD kids wi...
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by john aschenbrenner
Piano by Number is the missing step left out of conventional piano lessons. Learning the piano is simply a series of steps. Like Mount Everest, t...
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by john aschenbrenner
A Melissa and Doug piano for toddlers is limited to three models. There are two Melissa and Doug uprights and one "grand." You have to admit tha...
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by john aschenbrenner
Preschool piano lesson plans should leave room for entertaining games. The basics of the piano can be explored in a fun, child-friendly way. A ...
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by john aschenbrenner
If you try to teach piano to your children, you are in a tiny minority of parents. Most parents do not teach their own children the piano. The...
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by john aschenbrenner
Are kid's piano recitals harmful in that they foster fear and stage fright rather than a love of music and the piano? You’ve never seen a fright...
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by john aschenbrenner
Are you your child's first piano teacher? The answer is "only if there is no professional who can really handle the job." It also wouldn't hur...
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by john aschenbrenner
Middle C is the first location at the piano keyboard that your child must find and memorize. Lower down on the page is a drawing of the note “Mi...
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by john aschenbrenner
The quarters piano game is a perfect example of an activity that demonstrates a physical fact about the piano. Games must be vivid fun for a chil...
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by john aschenbrenner
Visual piano games and exercises get the child to pay attention to the keyboard. Put simply, a keyboard is a group of colored buttons within wh...
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by john aschenbrenner
A piano fingering diagram shows that fingering is an art that is easy in its simplest form. Fingering is a very complex system of rules ...
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