Beginners Piano Lessons

Hi Everyone,

Congratulations for deciding to begin your quest to learn to play piano!  Don’t be discouraged because you are here visiting a Beginners Piano Lessons page.  Everyone has to start some place.  Don’t let the idea of beginning become an intimidating factor.  You don’t want to get overwhelmed by what you don’t know.  Be encouraged that you have taken the first and often most difficult step; you want to learn piano.  Every journey begins with the first step so take heart.

Beginners, for our purposes, come in two ‘flavors’ or groups: adult and children.  While both can be considered as beginners they must be treated differently.  Adult learning techniques and methods for teaching children have  quite different focuses. 

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Adult beginners piano lessons. 

Let’s begin with the adult learning experience.  Those interested in beginner lessons for children please scroll down the page for more information.

Adults, often long since removed from the learning environment, require a very hands-on approach to effectively gain and hold their attention.  Adult learning should focus heavily on the HOW component versus the traditional approach where volumes of books and articles are the only components consumed and internalized.

The beginners piano lessons courses we review use a combination of different media.  For example the Piano for All course(see our Piano For All Review) course contains 10 e-books, 500 audio recordings and 200 videos.  The multimedia approach is very dynamic in that it keeps the action moving which is a big plus for the adult learner.  Small successes are championed as the new pianist works their way through the lessons enroute to the next level of achievement.

Beginners piano lessons for the typical adult, who in some ways, has a shorter attention span than a child, who is accustomed to school as a way of life.  Most adults don’t want to relive the ‘horrors’ of being in school so adult learning must be tailored with a different approach in mind than a traditional school feel.  Rocket Piano Course  (see our Rocket Piano Review) works you through its’ hundreds of sound files, pictures, diagrams, videos, lessons as well as step-by-step instructions teaching you to read music.  As you move through their interactive course you also learn to play by ear and get the chance to experiment with the type of music that most interests you whether that be Classical, Pop, Blues, Rock, or Gospel.

With beginners piano lessons the idea is to have FUN while you learn.  Most people who love a particular style of music REALLY enjoy getting the chance to play that type of music WHILE they learn the lesson of the day.

Beginning piano lessons for children.  While adults are impatient for one reason when it comes to learning, children are impatient for a different reason.  Children need constant stimuli in order to focus.  A combination of a piano course and a fun game can make all the difference in the success of how well a child beginner progresses.  The child who embarks on beginners piano lessons often wants to give up very quickly once the ‘glitz’ of the new ‘toy’ has worn off and the piano becomes more of a ‘chore’ than a means to have fun.

The challenge for the adult who is teaching the child or leading them through the learning experience is to keep them ‘entertained’ as they learn.  Now, if you’re an educator, don’t get yourself all worked up by that statement.  Learning music is markedly different than traditional learning for children. 

As a music educator I have been saddened by the idiotic bureaucrats who try to impose their idea of education onto music teachers trying their best to give their beginners piano lessons.  They are worried, in many cases, more about their lesson planning than they are about student learning because they focus on the wrong priorities. 

Consequently I’ve actually seen administrators, who’ve never held or stat before an instrument in their life, impose traditional lesson plans of band directors.  Those are good until the baton drops and the first note is played and then all bets are off.  You simply can’t program music learning in the same way that you do in a traditional classroom.

The reason for my diatribe on this is not because of my personal aversion to lesson planning.  You must have a plan to go about teaching music but not a traditional one and that’s especially true with beginners piano lessons. 

The reason, rather, is to point out that teaching and learning music are DIFFERENT than traditional academic classes.  If you approach music classes the way you approach traditional ones you will end up with a bunch of folks quitting.  In music you must instill a desire in people to WANT it and to come back for more voluntarily.   While there are rare exceptions, traditional teaching methods simply don’t do that effectively.

Learning to play a musical instrument is much more technical in nature and requires huge amounts of multi-tasking.  This is not something that the child can be immersed in all at once.  With beginners piano lessons it has to be worked up to gradually while keeping the interest of the child focused by allowing them to get the feeling of ‘play’ as they learn.

The Piano is Fun (see our Piano Is Fun Review ) software is a way of accomplishing this.  Some examples of how this works include:  Students discover the names of the notes through interactive exercises and games that ensure that they develop true note recognition skills instead of memorizing rhymes.  Each beginners piano lesson includes a practice game which allows students to learn at their own pace without getting frustrated. When they complete a lesson, students receive a special reward on their personal progress page.  When a student completes a medallion challenge, they are rewarded with a trumpet fanfare and are presented with a Certificate of Achievement. If a student is having problems with particular notes, Piano Is Fun allows you to create a customized lesson to address their specific problem.

You’ll be amazed at how the young beginner will look forward to the next piano lesson.  Today kids love computer games and technology.  This system allows you to let them use the computer to learn something constructive and beneficial.  Later, if they show promise, you might consider moving them into one of our other programs to take them to the next level.

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