What is Imaginative Play? Imaginative play, or pretend play, involves the child role playing situations that they have seen before. By doing this, they experiment with behaviours, problem solving, and empathy. For example, a child might pretend play to be the parent of their teddy bear, and has to deal with topics like feeding the bear …
Going slow is both the best tool a music student can have, and a student’s worst nightmare. Every student wants to play at lightning speed. Like the rest of us, little piano students want to get right into the fun and exciting parts, without having prepared correctly first. However, as the music gets progressively harder, …
The Problem of Hands Together Coordination More and more, I am noticing my students struggle to play the piano with both hands, and don looks of frustration when they realize that knowing how to play hand separately, does not always translate to playing both hands. Since most books have beginner piano players start with one hand …
Good Practice is Undeniable Throughout my time teaching, it has become abundantly clear to me that parents do not need to be reminded about the benefits of practice. Adults understand, without a doubt, that to learn a skill, one must put work into it. Whether that skill be cooking, climbing or driving, the key that …
What Are They? Intervals are the distances between each note. They are named numerically and have different qualities to them based on the exact spatial difference. For example: C to a D is a MAJOR secondC to a Db is a MINOR secondC to a E is a MAJOR thirdC to a Eb is a MINOR …
