Piano Lesson-Course Details
Learning music has numerous benefits for a person's physical, intellectual, and psychological development, including visual recognition, auditory skills, kinesthetics, motor coordination, and emotional functions. Starting at an appropriate age promotes children's growth and well-being while maturing them into well-rounded individuals.
What is Child Development?
Child development is the series of physical, linguistic, cognitive, and emotional changes that occur in a child from birth to the beginning of adulthood. During this process, a child progresses from being dependent on their parents/guardians to becoming more independent.
Child development encompasses the full range of skills that a child acquires throughout their life, including development in:
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Cognition – the ability to learn and solve problems
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Social interaction and emotional regulation – interacting with others and mastering self-control
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Speech and Language – understanding and using language, reading and communicating
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Physical skills – fine motor (finger) skills and gross motor (whole body) skills
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Sensory awareness – the registration of sensory information for use
There are six courses and three mini-group courses organized by approximate age and level. This is a general outline intended to support each child's learning process and promote child development. Every child is unique, and their developmental stage differs. Please use this template as a guide, not as a final determination.
Parental participation
Parental participation is needed in both group and private classes for students under the age of six (including six years old). Parents' support and interests are the most important influences on their children's learning. Your children and you will learn the piano together, giving parents the opportunity to learn how to help and support their children's home learning throughout the week.
Home practice
The length of each practice is usually irrelevant in the early years, but spending time together with music is. Even if you only have 5 minutes, it is far superior to zero minutes per day.
Accumulation makes a significant difference.
Grade assessment
Enrolling your child in grade assessments such as RCM, CNCM, and other competitive festivals requires meeting certain age and level requirements:
Students must reach Level 8 (usually after Sonatinas) and be at least 13 years old.
Focusing on these grade assessments can be stressful for children's natural development, and a lack of experience in learning all important music pieces can stymie their future progress.
Art is not about competition. Every child has their own sense of accomplishment, and it is critical not to interfere with it through external rewards, grading, or scoring.
Once a child has matured enough to determine whether assessments are important and beneficial to them, I will go over additional options, how to process, and what is needed to prepare.
Baby’s Lullaby Class - Me, My Baby And My Piano
Group Piano Lessons for Littles
Pre-Piano Fun Circle & Piano Fun Fan Buddy Club from ages 3 to 5
Largo up to 3 y.o. (Pre-primer)
Cherish music.
Play with piano.
Move with souls.
Sing with your heart.
Adagio 4 to 6 y.o. (Primer -pre-reading)
Enjoy music with small hands.
First steps to learn rhythm, listening, singing, and playing piano.
Andante Beginner 6 y.o. and up
Focus, independent and fun.
An entrance for little pianists.
Moderato Late beginner-early intermediate
Rational, compassion and purpose.
Development process for maturity.
Allegro late Intermediate - early advanced-advanced
Challenge, dream and invent.
Learn how to be persistent to make a balance in the life.
Presto - late advanced
Passion, determination and love of art.
Preparation to be independent musically.
Largo is a 30-minute piano lesson for toddlers and their parents. Activities include singing, listening, and moving to music in various tones and characters. Music helps promote young children's emotional development. It's an excellent opportunity to introduce music into their daily lives in a warm, nurturing, and playful setting. It is also for parents who play the piano to learn how to incorporate music into their busy schedules with toddlers.
Adagio is a 30-minute lesson for young students aged 3 to 5 years old who are beginning to learn to read. This is an important stage for laying a solid musical foundation and developing good practice habits in preparation for more formal piano lessons in the future. They'll start out without any books. Before learning to play the piano, they will engage in a variety of musical activities that will help them develop their rhythmic, aural, auditory, and kinesthetic abilities. Because each child's development stage at this age category is unique and varied, as is their ability to recognize the outside world through their senses of vision, hearing (auditory sense), touch (tactile sensation), and movement (coordination and motor skills), I assess each student's skill levels and choose the best possible approaches.
Once they start playing the piano, they will learn the fundamentals of technique.
Andante Andante is a 45-minute lesson for beginners aged 6 years and up. The most important skill to learn at this stage is proper piano technique. It will require some time and effort. Acquiring good technique prevents future injury and allows them to express themselves musically with beautiful tone. Long-term benefit outweighs all effort and conundrum here.
The main approaches are very similar to the Adagio course, beginning with auditory skills and gradually progressing to music notation.
Moderato is a 45-60-minute lesson for early intermediates. Once children's physical stability improves, the primary focus of the lessons will move to developing musicality and advanced technique, which are required for producing tone variations. Students will continue to learn about body anatomy in order to better understand how to use their bodies while playing the instrument. Their repertoire will grow at this point. They will learn pieces by great composers from various eras, ranging from baroque to contemporary.
Scales and chords, as well as music history and theory, will be provided accordingly. This process will incorporate all of the knowledge they have gained into an actual piece they play.
Allegro is a 60-minute lesson for late intermediate to early advanced students. Their repertoires will expand and become more artistically sophisticated, as will the required techniques. They will continue to develop advanced technical skills in order to handle demanding repertoires without injury. Since they will be learning repertoires considered master pieces by great composers, musicianship-solfege skills and theory comprehension will become increasingly important in order to understand these master pieces.
How quickly individuals grasp/understand the structure of music is becoming an increasingly important factor in learning larger and longer pieces. To help with this process, they will start learning functional harmony as a foundation for harmony. Listening to a variety of musical genres and performances will help them develop their artistic comprehension level.
Presto ia for students who are late advanced or above. Lessons can last anywhere from 60 minutes to 120 minutes or longer, depending on their needs and goals. Well-rounded technical skills and musical comprehension, which enable students to express themselves artistically in a variety of tones and colors, are becoming increasingly important.They will study a variety of repertoire, from Baroque to contemporary.
