Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Teaching Plans and Outlines

Here are some suggested first steps for beginner piano students:

  1. Playing by imitation
  2. Melodic analysis of song for form (AABA, for example)
  3. Five finger hand positions of right and left hands
  4. Tonic and dominant-seventh chords
  5. Rhythm exercises
  6. Sight reading
  7. Transposition
  8. Theory
  9. Technique
  10. Home Practice
  11. Creative work
  12. Block and broken chords
  13. Analysis, melodic and harmonic
  14. Playing the song and observation of cadences
  15. Melodies for the left hand
  16. Technical development through varieties of fingering
  17. Increasing finger independence
  18. Piano pieces without words
For more information about piano classes NJ, contact Barbara Ehrlich Piano Studio.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the links and for sharing your thoughts about these useful and reliable music teaching strategies. I agree that music studio professionals and practitioners must be creative and innovative enough to be able to make learning more fun and exciting. This also heightens their levels of motivation, interest and participation. Thanks again and more power. Please also share other useful studio management tips and resources - giving us more rooms for effectiveness and efficiency. These ideas and experiences from you can be very useful to most of us in this music studio business. Thanks again and see you around. Cheers!

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