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by john aschenbrenner
Every piano lesson is not a winner. Kids have good days and bad days. Sometimes, I have the knack of changing tears to laughter. I do this by un...
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by john aschenbrenner
The danger zone in kid's piano lessons is when the teacher begins to get impatient. Tread carefully. The child is going slowly because they must....
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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
Many homeschooling parents find that our Piano by Number books make an excellent basis for a home piano program. Parents become piano teachers in...
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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
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 psychology of homeschool piano is largely a sensible attitude. I suggest that you try a very child-friendly method to start your homeschoo...
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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
Resistance to reading music is age based. The younger you are, the more trouble you will have learning to read music. This causes kids a lot of ...
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by john aschenbrenner
Second inversion chords are the third chord position that students learn, since most methods restrict chord study to triads (three note chords) f...
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by john aschenbrenner
A wise piano teacher will follow the child's pace with piano lessons. The biggest mistake that piano teachers make is to go too fast. Look at the...
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by john aschenbrenner
Let us imagine we are inside a kid's brain during a piano lesson, listening to their thoughts. There are two possible scenarios that are probabl...
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