Piano educator, chairman of Taiwan Province Jazz Piano Education Association.
Who is Lin Wenxin? When many students who have received formal piano education for many years in Chinese mainland can only play "classics", they can't play freely in the relaxed entertainment of pop music; When many adults in Chinese mainland want to learn the piano from scratch, but they are confused by all kinds of textbooks that are too complicated or too simple, a popular piano textbook-12 hour learning popular keyboard and its extension, a collection of 24-hour learning jazz piano and12 hour learning popular keyboard applications, which is low in starting point and high in level, is suitable for all ages in Xian Yi. The writer is Mr. Lin Wenxin, Chairman of Taiwan Province Jazz Piano Education Association.
1, experience
Unfortunately, at present, we (piano lovers in Chinese mainland) can't find the detailed experience of Mr. Lin Wenxin from the Internet. Although we all want to know the experience of this popular piano educator.
There is a website in Taiwan Province Province that specializes in promoting teacher Lin's teaching material-Color Piano Score. From this website, we know that Mr. Lin has published four sets of popular piano teaching materials: 12 hours to learn popular keyboard, 12 hours to learn applied music, 24 hours to learn jazz piano, and 12 hours to learn children's keyboard. At present, the first three can be found online. In these three kinds of teaching materials videos, Mr. Lin mentioned some of his experiences in some places, and we know something about them:
He was about 30 years old when "Learn Jazz Piano in 24 Hours" was filmed (1994 or so). Based on this calculation, Mr. Lin's birth time should be around 1954- 1959. He lives in Taichung City, Taiwan Province Province. I have received professional piano education. I am studying in America, and my major is jazz piano. The original company (probably founded by it) FM Culture Enterprise Co., Ltd. was reorganized into "Color Piano Score" in 2004.
According to the website of "Color Piano Music", the former FM Culture Enterprise Co., Ltd. provides teaching materials for different learning classes and stages of the music system, and teaches students in accordance with their aptitude through video, VCD and DVD systems, breaking down the barriers of music, so that every student can study easily and efficiently, while enjoying the fun of learning. Through countless interactions with students, Mr. Lin clearly understands the needs of students and cares about how to make students more robust. As a result, Mr. Lin transformed the company into a colorful piano score that is more interactive and closer to the needs of music lovers.
As can be seen from the website, Mr. Lin also cooperated with some TV stations to launch pop songs and released three sets of DVDs.
The announcement of this website is only updated until around 2005.
The above is what we know about Mr. Lin at present.
2. Educational concept
Lin Wenxin's personal concept of piano music is "vulgar but not vulgar". He believes that the language (melody) of music has no boundaries and anyone can communicate with it. Therefore, it should be familiar to universities like pop songs, while jazz represents personal taste. Jazz piano music is different from ordinary pop songs in that it can improvise and express the player's musical style.
Lin Wenxin believes that music is something that sounds good. If you can't have fun, how can others sound like it?
Lin Wenxin believes that people who study classical piano play Mozart or Beethoven every day. No matter how well they play, they are other people's works. No matter how well they play, they can only be regarded as proficient in reading music, reciting music and deductive skills. Lin Wenxin believes that piano learners can play freely, without being bound by composers, and even improvise and play the music in their hearts, which can naturally please others. Of course, jazz piano should still have a classic foundation.
Play happily, sing happily, that is, learn and know;
Around us, amateur piano learners are all primary school students. After the prime of life, young people who have been declared "finger joints are not flexible" can still learn piano from scratch? Lin Wenxin tells you that "an 80-year-old lady can learn". After studying for three months, she can play almost all your favorite pop songs freely. Is this a miracle? If so, then a miracle has happened.
Compared with the traditional piano learning and practicing a scale repeatedly, the sense of achievement of being able to play and sing freely in three months is easier to stimulate one's enthusiasm and make a future master. Lin Wenxin condensed the most boring music theory and fingering in piano learning into 12 class, and put forward the concept of happy keyboard and happy playing and singing. It also published the first set of teaching materials for jazz piano music in China. According to his textbook, learning piano can be as simple as learning folk guitar, and you don't need to learn it from primary school or boring Bayer. The piano of "High and Low Music" will become a karaoke platform for families to spread joy.
Of course, happiness is easy to achieve, but success is not that simple. To achieve mastery and ease, it is still "Rome was not built in a day".
Lin Wenxin's keyboard course is divided into two parts: popular keyboard course and jazz piano course.
Lin Wenxin's popular keyboard course is divided into two stages:
Stage 1: Learn the popular keyboard course 12 hours, and teach it completely from the beginning, including the most basic knowledge of music theory, learning staff and notation, fingering and so on. Interspersed with a variety of very small and pleasant etudes, closely combined with the knowledge taught in each class, fast and fun. Suitable for friends without any keyboard foundation.
The second stage: 12 hours learning the popular keyboard application music collection course is the practical part. On the basis of 1 stage course 12, let's review the old and learn the new. In each class, several popular songs are used as piano solo exercises, and improvisational accompaniment techniques are introduced to further lay a good foundation for self-writing and self-playing. At the same time, the 3-degree and 6-degree interval accompaniment method taught in the course is more difficult than 1 stage, which is suitable for friends with some keyboard basics (piano or electronic organ).