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Piano For Preschoolers
Piano for Preschoolers is an effective piano teaching method that uses color-coded notes written on a traditional music staff to teach beginner piano lessons to children. A durable color strip sits behind the keys and guides the child to the correct key for each note. This method of teaching preschool music allows children to begin playing piano as soon as they know their colors.
With the Piano for Preschoolers preschool music lessons, children instantly play songs they recognize. Once they experience the pride of performing the first few songs, they have the motivation to continue to learning piano. As the beginning piano lessons progress, each new song builds upon the previous song--constructing a solid music foundation. Preschoolers easily master beginning piano concepts, and teaching preschoolers piano should be fun and rewarding.
Why Learn Piano?
Child Piano Lessons: The Benefits of Music Education for Children
With the help of a good teacher, most kids will do well on a standardized math test. Doing well on a standardized math test is not the same as understanding or mastering math. If kids are to compete in the high tech world, they need to be able to master difficult math concepts. Children who don't grasp these concepts at an early age risk getting left behind. Preschool music activities, such as beginner piano lessons, are important to early childhood brain development. By integrating music and math through preschool piano lessons, you can help your child be successful in school.
The Relationship Between Music and Math
Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California have studied the relationship between math and music for many years. They compared the effects of musical and nonmusical training on the intellectual development of preschoolers.
Children who received preschool piano lessons performed 34% higher on tests measuring spatial-temporal ability than other preschoolers. The kids who received preschool piano lessons could think in pictures and see those pictures moving or changing shape over time. From this research, it is clear that preschool music lessons are effective in teaching math through music. Developing an ability in music enhances math skills, giving children an advantage in science, engineering, and other math-related subjects.
Effective Preschool Music Activities: Piano for Preschoolers
Of the few preschool piano resources available for preschoolers, most use gimmicks or cartoon characters to teach young children. This is distracting for the child and doesn't prepare them for further music study. It is questionable whether such beginning piano lessons for kids can reproduce the results seen in the various studies integrating music with math concepts.
With Piano for Preschoolers, your preschooler will be playing real music on real keys from the very start. While the color coded notes guide them, they are actually seeing and playing real piano music. These preschool piano lessons simply allow children to learn music at a younger age and to take advantages of all the benefits that go along with it. The benefits of piano lessons are numerous and can last a lifetime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q - Can I really teach my child piano if I don’t have any musical background?
Yes, you can with this piano teaching method! The musical concepts are broken down into very small steps in the teacher’s guide. The beginner piano songs in the music book give your child an opportunity to practice the concepts taught by each of the preschool piano lessons. The kids have so much fun playing songs they recognize, they don’t even realize they are applying the lesson you taught. Even if you don’t have any musical background at all, you can easily teach your child beginning piano with this program. You might even learn something yourself.
Q - Do these preschool music activities work for older kids?
The Piano for Preschoolers beginning piano lessons teach what a child would learn in 6-12 months of a group piano class or private piano lessons. With this method, a child learns rhythm, counting aloud, finger numbers, finger position, and reading music (including the names of the notes). The familiar songs in the beginner piano book give a child the opportunity to practice these musical concepts. The 17 songs include Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald, Ten Little Indians, etc. A seven or eight-year-old child will move much quicker through the preschool piano lessons than a three-year-old. An older child will be very familiar with the songs in the music book. A caring parent or grandparent is the best judge whether these beginning piano songs will motivate an older child. It really is an individual thing.
Q - How do the children transition from colored notes to regular notes?
The last couple of beginner piano songs in the music book introduce notes written in black and white. Remember, throughout the course children read traditional music notes written on a traditional music staff. The color coding is used as a guide to the correct key on the piano or keyboard. By the time your child gets to these songs, he should be able to transition easily. If your child masters the preschool piano lessons that cover which note is written in which line or space, he should have no problem transitioning. The concepts taught in each lesson of the teacher’s guide build upon each other so your child will be ready to read music written in black and white by the time he gets to these lessons.
Q - Do these preschool music activities work with any piano or keyboard?
The Piano for Preschoolers beginner piano course comes with two color strips. One color strip fits a piano or a keyboard with full-size keys. The other color strip fits a keyboard with smaller keys. Whether you already have a piano in your home, purchase a keyboard elsewhere, or receive our gift package that includes the Casio keyboard we’ve chosen, the color strips will fit.
Q - What is the next step after a child completes these beginning piano lessons?
A child who masters the concepts in the beginner piano lessons will be well prepared for further piano study. You may choose to continue teaching your child how to play the piano at home with music books or beginner piano sheet music available at your local music store. Or you may prefer to find a private piano teacher. Regardless, your child will have progressed beyond the boring beginning piano music that asks children to play middle C over and over again. The teachers who wouldn’t teach your child piano at an early age will be impressed with what he/she knows. Your child will be able to play from beginning piano books at the music store with fun songs that will keep him engaged. Whether your child continues to play the piano or not, the exposure to preschool music lessons will give him/her academic advantages down the road. There are numerous benefits of music education for children.
Piano for Preschoolers plans to release a more advanced course for children who have mastered the concepts in our beginning piano lessons. Meanwhile, the holiday songbook and sacred songs book give kids even more opportunities to practice the concepts taught in the beginning piano course.
Q - How quickly should we move through the piano course?
How quickly you move through the course depends on your child. It is perfectly fine to spend 5-10 minutes at a time practicing the musical concepts presented in the teacher’s manual. Other children may want to play the piano for up to half an hour. Try to get your child to practice new concepts and play new songs before playing the kids piano songs he has mastered. That way you’re always making progress. Remember to keep it fun. Introduce new songs and new concepts when your child is ready for them. You will be the best judge when your child is ready to move forward.
Q - What is your return policy?
You may return the preschool music curriculum within 30 days of your purchase date from Tot Town for a full refund. No questions asked.
When You Purchase Piano For Preschoolers, You'll Receive:
* Beginning piano book containing 17 familiar kids piano songs written in color-coded notes on a traditional musical staff
* 17 Track CD with voice-over "count aloud" for each song in the music book
* Durable coordinating color strip that sits behind the keys of your piano or keyboard to guide your preschooler to the correct key
* A second durable color strip to fit securely on most quality electronic keyboards with mini-keys
* Parent/Teacher Guide that includes step-by-step instructions for teaching each of the 19 music lessons
"About Angie"
Announcing an Easy, Fun, and Affordable Way
to Teach Beginner Piano Lessons to Your Preschooler
"My name is Angie Crellin. I've studied classical piano for more than 30 years. I know firsthand the joy that comes from playing the piano, and I would like to share with you the benefits of music for children.
"When I thought the time was right for my oldest daughter to start playing piano, I began my search for the right preschool piano programs. I visited my local music store and purchased several of the most popular beginning piano books. My daughter was so excited about learning to play piano and we got started right away.
But the excitement didn't last long. She quickly lost interest in the first book, and then another, and another. I decided to give it some time. I tried again several months later, but she didn't want to go near the piano. The girl I had video taped joyfully playing her own "compositions" since she was two had lost all interest in learning to play the piano.
"No matter how much I wanted to see my child playing piano, I decided then I couldn't force my interests on her and that the piano just wasn't her thing. Now I know I just didn't have a piano teaching method that gave her an instant sense of accomplishment and the motivation to continue.
"A few years later, my preschool son started showing an interest in playing the piano. I certainly didn't want a repeat of the disaster my daughter and I went through, but I didn't know where to turn.
I considered several group classes and private piano teachers in the area, but they were all using those dreaded beginner piano books I had purchased for my daughter.
"After hundreds of hours of research, I developed the child piano lessons you're about to discover: Piano for Preschoolers.
"The results were amazing. My son loved playing real songs he recognized and couldn't wait to learn more. His friends would come over for play dates and their moms would be amazed at what their kids would accomplish while they were at my house."
- Angie Crellin
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