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by john aschenbrenner
Using a visual approach in children's piano lessons assures you of success. Kids can play music far harder than what they can read on a page. ...
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by john aschenbrenner
Preschool piano games are derived from skills kids need to learn. Make games out of these concepts:
What is left and right at the piano? It has...
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by john aschenbrenner
I have an ADHD child student for whom the only solution was extreme piano games. He has been a piano student with me for several years. It's poss...
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by john aschenbrenner
Overcoming frustration in piano students is a problem you should never let develop. Be clever enough that the child never enters the frustration z...
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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
Mozart's Favorite Movie is a ridiculous, purely verbal piano game that I play with kids when they need relief from the tedium of reading sheet ...
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by john aschenbrenner
I often compare baseball and piano chords when I'm trying to give kids an idea of how chords work together in groups. There isn't a kid around wh...
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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
The future effect of piano games is a specific skill that the child will use. Such skills are best started early and repeated often like a fun ...
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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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by john aschenbrenner
When is fingering necessary in a young person’s piano lesson? Some piano teachers say, “From the first moment,” but I think otherwise. Fingerin...
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by john aschenbrenner
The Impossible Game for kid's piano is played with kids as soon as they have enough skill to be at ease. It is the shortest game I play, about 15...
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