#1 - Find Your Way Around The Piano
In two simple and fun lessons, you will be able to have your child know their way around the keyboard in a matter of minutes!
#2 - Time To Play Your First Song!
Now that your child is able to find all of the notes on the piano at will, they are ready to play their very first song!
#3 - Reading Music Can Be Easy!
Here, in two simple lessons, and a more advanced next step, is how to help make reading music easy for your child.
#4 - What Are Clefs, And Why Do We Need Them?
Once students learn about the Bass Clef, many wonder why we have multiple clefs in the first place, which is a terrific question!
#5 - Reading The Bass Clef, Easy As Treble!
While many students feel that reading the Bass Clef is more difficult than reading the Treble Clef, the reality is that it is as easy!
#6 - Playing The Piano With Both Hands
After your child has learned how to read both clefs, the next step is for them to learn how to use both hands at the same time!
#7 - Common Musical Post-Reading Confusions
Your child has now learned an enormous amount of material that they now need to make sense of. Here is how to help them when they get confused!
#8 - What is Prolongation in Music?
Once we recognize the prolongation in a given piece of music, a harmonic progression becomes one unit – therefore, reducing the many notes to fewer meaningful objects that we can then relate to in a simpler manner.
#9 - Unraveling the Skeletal Melodic Line
Schenkerian Analysis posits that there are two main types of melodic lines: a 5-line and a 3-line. The two tasks that are before us today are to determine which one is used in this piece, and examine how this skeletal melodic line is being prolonged.
#10 - Prolongation of the Bass Line
In this blog post, I will discuss the prolongation in the Bass line between measures 1-19 of Bach’s famous Prelude in C Major.
#11 - Your Child Can Choose Their Own Song!
Now that your child knows the basics of piano playing, they can celebrate their achievement by choosing a song that they really care about!
#12 - How To Choose The Right Version?
How do you choose the correct version for your child? This blog post will guide you how to discern between different versions so you can make sure you are choosing an appropriate version for your child.