#3 YR OLD PIANO PRODIGY HOW TO#
So, if the teacher is not the parent, then it helps greatly to teach the parent how to play and how they can work with their three-year-old during the week. It's easier to go to the piano and work with a young child for a few minutes several times a day than it is to have a scheduled 30-minute lesson once a week, like you would for an older child. It seems that most pianists who began at age three were first taught by their mother or father. That's the key for teaching a three-year-old: to realize that their attention spans are short and then work around that fact. Quote from: fleetfingers on February 10, 2012, 07:54:06 PM In conclusion, if the child is smiling during lessons and practice then it is definitely not too early to learn the piano. Possibly the child will lead the practice and the lesson, since you should always respond to his or her needs. If these are interesting and fun for the child then the child will want to learn. The lessons and practice should be based on many different musical exercises and games (at least 6 to 8 ). Therefore you should always write down a weekly practice plan which is very varied.ģ. The parental help most certainly should not be pushy, and the parents should follow the teacher’s instructions. 5 to 10 minutes a day is perfectly adequate.Ģ. The child will need parental help – the parent should be in the lesson and practise daily with the child. I did not emphasize the psychological and practical aspects of this earlier, but I will elaborate here on the details of teaching a 3 year old.ġ. I have now taught more than 200 children between the ages of 2 and a half to 6. In my last post I wrote about my experience of teaching the piano to the very young. You can find more information on these techniques for teaching very young children at This method is now being used by hundreds of teachers and is proving to be very successful. It combines singing, improvisation, finger exercises, rhythm exercises, ear training, note reading etc. so it is not necessary for the child to be able to read or write. The approach is based on using animals to represent the musical notes Cat for C, Dog for D etc. My youngest was 2 and a half and I teach very many 3 year olds. At this age, and even earlier, appropriate connections are being made in the brain and it turns out that this is a particularly good age to start. Now some of my most enjoyable experiences result from teaching these children, who learn piano in the same way as they learn to speak their mother tongue. These children gave me the best possible feedback – I worked out the method with and for them. The method developed as my experience with these young children grew over the next 15 years. Recent experience has showed that it is quite suitable for three year olds as well.
However it forced me to develop a piano method which was especially designed for the 4 to 6 age group. I have to say that initially I found this extremely frustrating. But then I found myself in a situation where each year I had at least 10 new students aged between 4 and 6. I have taught the piano for 30 years but in the first 15 or so years I always taught at a high level and had no experience of teaching even 5 or 6 year olds.
Reading this thread I cannot stop myself from writing of my own experience on this subject.
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