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What Is Soft Piano?

What Is Soft Piano?

What is soft piano? It is a way of teaching beginning piano that does not involve reading music immediately. It has demonstrated a far higher success rate. Why does "soft piano" even exist? Because the failure rate of "hard piano" (the old school) is 90%. Even a fool realizes that anything that has a 90% failure rate does not work. But conventional teachers decry soft piano as a fake, cheating children out of a musical education.

Piano Is Easy

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The Complaints Of The Purists

They say:

  • Piano is difficult no matter how you teach it.
  • Easy piano methods instill bad habits.
  • Only the old school is acceptable.
  • Soft piano dilutes music education.

Let’s take those statements and examine them.

Piano Is Difficult No Matter What

Wrong. Any piece of music can be simplified to the point where a beginner can play it. The flaw is that a very complex piece, even if rendered into numbers, may be too complex for the player to understand. The sheet music would be equally if not more incomprehensible. The entire process of learning the piano probably cannot be made easy, if you plan to be a concert pianist. But it is entirely within the realm of reason that the beginning of piano lessons can be made more enjoyable for children.

Easy Piano Methods Instill Bad Habits

I've seen little geniuses who have "good habits." They hate the piano, as they have been forced by repetition to learn a series of showpieces. The habit you need to succeed at the piano is the desire to keep playing. Unless that desire is coming from you, you will quit. Force doesn't really work. Passion does.

Only The Old School Is Acceptable

All that matters is that the child develops a desire to learn the piano. Force won't accomplish this. Nurturing might. Use your head: do you want a robot or an artist? Force works, but only for a little while in the beginning.

Soft Piano Dilutes Music Education

Music education is so "thick" that we have to dilute it. There's no other way to get the kids to drink it. So if a child gets a 10% solution of music education at first, he might quite like it, but if he got 100% it might be too thick, too complex for the child. The opposite of soft piano is, "Here, drink this thick stuff, it's what I used to drink 60 years ago when I was a kid." That stuff makes kids choke. 

REFERENCES

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Don't Tell Kids How Hard the Piano Is

Number Sheets For The Piano

The Pillow and the Piano

What The Piano Means To Your Child

A Child’s Point of View

Finding A Child’s Piano Comfort Zone

Why Kids Need Freedom To Learn Piano

A Bill of Rights for Kid’s Piano

How Kids See The Piano

Inside A Kid’s Head During A Piano Lesson

Kids Don’t Care What’s In The Piano Book

Let The Child Appear To Lead The Piano Lesson

What Bores Children In Piano Lessons?

What Kids Like About Piano Lessons

The Teacher Is More Important Than The Book

Strict Piano Lessons Don’t Work For Kids

The Piano Is A Child’s Thinking Machine

How A Child Sees The Piano Keyboard

Kids Like Holiday Songs On The Piano

I Want To Learn That Song That Goes…

Follow The Child’s Pace With Piano Lessons

Discipline and Repetition Don’t Work in Kid’s Piano

Every Child Learns Piano Differently

Funny Piano Lessons

Engage Kids With The Piano

How A Child Sees The Piano

What Kids Think In A Piano Lesson

Freestyle Kid’s Piano

What Kids Need In Piano Lessons

Piano By The Numbers

Piano With Numbers Keys

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PIANO BY NUMBER

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