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Articles on Piano EducationSteinway Piano - Through the Years
Steinway has a rich history and tradition of making quality pianos. Every piece that makes up a Steinway is selected for its quality to create an uncompromising instrument and a beautiful piano.
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Steinway Piano - A Piano as An Investment?
There are many things that can bring you great enjoyment and be a lucrative investment. A Steinway piano, either new or restored, is one of those things.
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Piano Dealers - Find Your Steinway in Louisiana
Steinway and Sons make the best pianos in the world. These handmade pianos are sold only by licensed dealers and they are available in New Orleans as well as New York.
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Special Education And Piano Lessons
We asked a leading children's music educator about his experience with children with disabilities, and the advantages of using piano "by number" books for these special kids. "I've taught lots of kids of all descriptions, but children with disabilities are the greatest beneficiaries of piano by number. The reason for this is that many of these kids may not be able to read sheet music. Thus piano by number is their only chance to enjoy playing music on the piano.
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Why Piano Stickers Work for Children
The purpose of the five blue stickers (and the red one) on the piano keyboard is to give a reference point for children. That is, the BLUE stickers define the location of the FIVE lines of the musical staff (the FIVE lines are the "musical staff") and the RED sticker defines the location of Middle C.
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Interview with the Author of Piano Is Easy
The author of the Christmas Carol Kit and Piano Is Easy! was asked recently about his teaching method: "My philosophy of music teaching is to provide an environment in which the student cannot fail. Too many teachers have a rigid program which the student, usually a child, must master or risk disapproval. Students, especially children, are unique individuals and these personal differences may mean a radical range of motor skills and intellectual abilities."
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Piano Kids
A minute-by-minute analysis of what a happy piano lesson should be for a child. Tips and techniques for making sure your child enjoys their experience at the piano.
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How Can I Help My Child Read Music?
Do you remember your childhood piano lessons, with all those uninteresting exercises that comprise the ENTIRE curriculum of famous book methods, such as Bastien, John Thompson, Alfred, Schaum, and all the others? Go look in your piano bench where you keep all the piano books from your childhood: all these books are useful, but only after we have sparked a child's enthusiasm by getting them to play songs that are familiar to them, right away, from the first second of their first piano lesson.
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Piano Teaching Games
There are lots of fun games you can play with a piano that has numbered stickers. Consider MUSICAL CHAIRS, probably the oldest of all musical games, and many more that you and your family can play with PIANO BY NUMBER and your own piano at home.
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What Is A Good Age to Start Piano Lessons?
Discusses the motor skills necessary to play beginning piano in terms of the child's age. For example. it takes the average toddler 2000 tries to learn how to pick up a cup. Imagine how difficult the complexities of the piano must seem to young children!
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Start Your Child Playing Piano By Number
Play piano by numbers: an historical overview: The idea of playing piano by numbers has been around for a long time. In fact, numbering the keys is just an extension of numbering the fingers, which was first done by Carl Czerny early in the 19th Century. In the 1950's, there was the Emenee organ, a keyboard which had numbers printed on the keys, and a book of songs "by number" to go with it.
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Learn To Play Guitar Songs - Scales and Playing Your First Song
If you happen to know anything about playing the piano, you know that a "scale" is a group of notes that are played in succession in ascending or descending order. There are a number of different scales. Each scale has unique characteristics, musical qualities, and note patterns. We will talk a little bit about scales and how to use them to improve your guitar playing.
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