Giving your child piano lessons will end up being not only a great investment for you but also for your child. Playing the piano helps develop parts of your child's brain that might otherwise go undeveloped.
Piano music has two clefs. The treble clef and the base clef both appear on the grand staff.
The treble clef is what the right hand plays whereas the base clef is what the left hand plays. Because the left and the right hand are working simultaneously the left and right sides of the brain are also working simultaneously.
Playing the piano is a skill that an individual can carry for a lifetime. Eventually the piano playing skills that your child develops can turn into a relaxing and enjoyable hobby.
If you can enroll or start teaching your child piano lessons at a young age do so. When the child is young, their mind is very impressionable and they are soaking up the world around them.
Exercising your child's brain at a young age will give them the capabilities to deal with more complicated thought processes at a younger age. Time and time again it has been proven that children that are given the opportunity to play the piano have an advantage over those children that did not.
If you learn the basics of piano yourself, you may be able to help your child better understand his or her piano lessons. The piano may seem a lot more complicating and intimidating than it really is.
First, the basic unit of rhythm of the piano is a measure. The simplest rhythm is one of 4/4 time.
This means that there are four quarter notes in every measure. Each quarter note is held for one beat.
A half note is the equivalent of two quarter notes, and looks similar to a quarter note but the circular part of the note is not shaded in. A half note is held for two beats.
A dotted-quarter note is equivalent to three quarter notes. This means that the dotted-quarter note is held for three beats.
A whole note is equivalent to four quarter notes and is held for four beats. In a 4/4 measure you could have any combination of notes that equal four beats.
A piano keyboard consists of alternating white and black keys. All of the white keys are grouped into sets of eights called octaves.
The black keys are grouped into sets of two's and three's. The majority of sharps and flats will be played on the black keys.
Middle C is the base or home note when playing the piano. All C notes are the white keys directly to the left of a set of two black keys.
Once you have found any C on the keyboard, you can locate the C that is on the middle of the whole keyboard. This is the note that your child will learn to locate first and will position his or her hands in relation to this note.
The white keys are assigned letter notes. Starting at a C and moving to the right the keys are named C, D, E, F, G, A and B.
The black notes, or the sharps and flats, are a little more complicated. When your child is first learning to play they will not be playing a large amount of sharps and flats.
The black note can be referred to as the sharp of the note on its left. Therefore, a C sharp would be the black note directly to the right of C.
But, this same C sharp can also be considered a B flat. A black note is the flat to the key on its right.
So the black key to the right of a white key is that white key's sharp. Whereas the black key to the left of a white key is considered that white key's flat.
The set of two black keys can be called C sharp and D sharp or D flat and E flat. The set of the three black keys can be called F sharp, G sharp and A sharp or G flat, A flat and B flat.
The treble clef and the bass clef are represented by a set of five lines and four spaces. There are acronyms associated with the lines and the spaces to help your child remember which note is associated with which line or space.
Once your child begins to learn and understand the piano it is important to make sure that they are practicing consistently. Your child will enjoy direct benefits from learning to play the piano.
Author Resource:
Jack R. Landry is a professional pianist who started playing piano at age 5. He has worked in the piano industry since 1999, and currently works in a yamaha piano dealer .
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Jack R. Landry
JackRLandry@gmail.com
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