My daughter was born in the countryside. She began to learn to play the piano at the age of ten. Three years later, she won the gold medal in Guangdong Division of Xinghai Cup National Children's Piano Competition, 14 years old, and was admitted to the piano major of the middle school attached to Sichuan Conservatory of Music. My parents always think that since you don't know music, your daughter mainly depends on talent! But they don't know that in order for my daughter to learn piano smoothly, I once set up a piano stage in Zhuhai's civic square, inviting piano children, parents and teachers to entertain themselves for free, exercising her courage and stimulating her interest in exchange performances. At the same time, ask the guests for experience. "Who did your child learn from? What kind of piano did you buy? What textbooks have you used? How does the teacher teach? How to practice at home? What can children do if they are not serious? ..... "A month later, I became half an expert. It was in those days that I learned that Dan Zhao Yi, a famous piano educator in Shenzhen, had learned several good books about learning piano, and the good ways to change my daughter's learning process later. My knowledge of piano learning and my daughter's progress come from my strong concern.
In order to find out how to buy a piano and whether it is good to add lead to the keys, I asked a dozen domestic experts and famous teachers. You know, it's hard to find their phone number. Also, my daughter plays the piano at home, and I come back from outside with a big bag and a small bag. I won't knock on the door until the music in the room is finished. Although my hand hurts, I will always insist on waiting for her to finish playing before entering the door. My daughter always said to me with a happy face, "What a coincidence, you come back every time you finish playing." As for me, I can only make a pun: "If you want me to come back early, then try to finish the bullet!" There are many such examples. I just want to explain one thing. Every time a daughter learns the piano, she mainly relies on her parents' attention, not her own talent.
In order to get you into the theme as soon as possible, I'd better talk about the questions that parents often ask!
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Introduction to the contents of the CD guide "Learning the piano is most afraid of detours"
Whether learning to play the piano as an amateur or as a professional, teachers must be very professional, so that students can get started correctly, lay a good foundation and learn from the shallow to the deep. I am 17 years old, majoring in piano in Grade Two of the High School Attached to Sichuan Conservatory of Music. I began to learn piano at the age of ten, and it has been seven years now. During this period, I went through many detours and won the gold medal in Guangdong Division of Xinghai Cup Piano Competition. But it was not until I was 65 years old and admitted to a professional college, 438+04, and studied under many famous piano educators that I had a basic correct understanding of piano learning. How I wish to tell the children who are learning the piano with my personal experience that in the process of learning the piano, I should take as few detours as possible, feel the charm of piano music as soon as possible, and make progress happily and easily.
There are many books and CDs related to piano learning, most of which are about music theory, music analysis and demonstration performance. There are not many explanations of basic piano skills, and teachers, parents and students have not paid enough attention to them. Even for students who have been engaged in professional study for many years, the basic skills of finger support are still very poor. The common misunderstandings are: judging the level of piano learners by the difficulty of playing the music in the examination grade, setting a higher level of practice for the examination grade, seeking progress rather than quality, etc. As a result, high-rise buildings were built in sand, with poor foundation and abandoned halfway. This may be the reason why most piano children can't advance smoothly or even give up learning piano. They may like piano music very much, but they just can't learn it, and their parents mistakenly think it is a matter of interest.
If the method is wrong, genius can't succeed by interest. You wanted to go to Beijing, but you went to Guangzhou. Imagine how long you can last. Learning piano is similar to learning martial arts, and it is impossible to continue learning without the guidance of experts.
There is no shortage of high-level performers in China now, but there is a shortage of high-level piano teachers, who can play well and teach poorly, and even more so. Faced with this situation, combined with my years of experience in learning the piano, I want to focus on the study of basic skills.
Although the study of basic skills is a bit boring, I have a desire to listen to music and want to make progress quickly, so I won't care about the temporary boredom. As long as you hold an important attitude, you will soon find that practicing basic skills is to take shortcuts, that is, to find the so-called trick.
Next, I will explain and demonstrate the practice process of piano basic skills in the CD. You will soon master the practice method of CD-ROM. ...
Excerpts from Class Notes —— On Basic Skills Training
The first textbook for my children to learn the piano is "Baie". Looking back now, I find that this is wrong. It's not that the textbook is wrong, but that "Baie" is not suitable for beginners, because it is not suitable for beginners to practice finger movements from the beginning. This is like letting children learn to walk first and then practice standing. It is bound to stagger, but progress is slow and even strange behavior habits are formed. Just as the foundation of developing children's walking and running skills is to stand firm, the foundation of piano finger skills is that each finger must first have the independent ability on the keys (professionally called the independent support ability of fingers).
Poor finger support will cause various bad hand shapes (such as palm bending, knuckle collapse, stiff big finger, curled finger, straight finger, etc.). Only when the function of fingers develops to the point that each finger can stand (support) on the keys independently without the help of other fingers, and the linkage, adhesion and unnecessary tension of other fingers will not be caused in the process of independent action, can a basically correct hand shape be formed and gradually consolidated.
From this, we can find the importance of beginner's station (independent support) on the keys. Unfortunately, this point is often overlooked in the actual piano teaching at present, which may be related to some teachers and parents' eagerness for success and ignorance of the importance of this foundation. Therefore, as the difficulty of playing music increases, teaching and learning become more and more difficult.
If you don't stand well, your martial arts will naturally be difficult to improve. If you don't pay attention to the standing training of your fingertips, your artistic charm will be hard to exert. Actually, it's about the same.
Here, many teachers' classroom notes about basic skills are extracted and condensed, just to solve the problem of basic skills. Although the notes are fragmentary, if you understand them carefully, you may feel that you will take shortcuts in the near future.
Excerpts from class notes
There is no difference in timbre and style between Bach and Chopin that you just played. Bach's tone color is not transparent, which is caused by the lack of "hard" fingertips. The keys of Chopin's bel canto are basically out of reach. Don't play hanging. Chopin's keys are like bel canto, and yours are like singing pop songs, which is too straightforward.
Your arms are tight now, so you should practice relaxing your arms first, and then firm your fingertips. Now you practice your fingertips. You are old, and you don't have enough time. It's not enough to practice your fingers. You must practice your fingers with its external force. This external force is like playing the piano, pushing the wall with both hands. Push hard, as if to knock down the wall. Don't move your wrist. One, two, three joints of five fingers. Get ready! Push! Then loosen it immediately, don't keep pushing, it's easy to hurt your fingers.
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