1, when is the right age to start learning piano?

Under normal circumstances, it is most appropriate for children to start formal piano learning between the ages of 4 and 6. First of all, children under 4 years old are not mature enough to understand the teacher's requirements well; Secondly, children under the age of 4 are usually unable to concentrate on the actions taught by the teacher; Third, if the child is too young and his fingers are not strong enough to press the right key. However, if you start learning piano after the age of 6, you will miss the golden age of building your child's finger function. In the advanced stage of learning piano, it is easy to see that fingers can't keep up, run fast enough, and their fingers are not independent enough. Like a third-grade student I taught. He is smart and diligent, but because of his age, his fingers are not as plastic as those of children before the age of 6. Even if he understands and practices hard, many skills are easy to go out of shape and it is difficult to reach the standard. And if there are children of the same age around who start to learn piano at the age of 4 or 5, children who learn piano too late will easily feel frustrated because of poor progress in two years.

2. What music should children listen to when learning piano?

So can you be ready to learn piano before you are 4 years old? The answer is yes. If parents are interested in letting their children learn piano in the future, they can play classical music at home from an early age. Considering that children are too young to listen to noisy music, they can choose to play chamber music such as piano solo, violin solo, flute solo and string quartet. Baroque, classicism and early romanticism are the best. You can choose the music of composers such as Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Schumann. For example, Bach's G-string aria, Vivaldi's four seasons, Schubert's serenade, trout quintet, Schumann's childhood scene, Mozart's string quartet and so on. Perhaps some parents have noticed that it is not only necessary to listen to the piano, or just to listen to the piano music. Children should be allowed to listen to various musical instruments from an early age. You can gain more perceptual knowledge of the timbre of music and cultivate children's rich sense of music from an early age.

Besides listening to some music to cultivate a sense of music, parents with conditions can also prepare pianos or piano toys at home in advance. -> children "jingle" on the piano to make some sounds, feel the change of sound and "contact->; Sound "rational understanding, maybe one day your child will play a familiar tune on the piano by himself, which will bring you great surprises!" "

3. Is it not suitable for children with short fingers to learn piano?

Parents often ask, is this situation suitable for children to learn piano? One of the most common questions is about the length of children's fingers. Many parents mistakenly believe that long fingers are necessary to play the piano, and short fingers are not suitable for playing the piano. Actually, it is not. Maybe it's more convenient to play with a longer finger, or it can span more. But what really affects the span of fingers in playing is actually the stretching degree of fingers and palms. When the trained hand stretches hard, the thumb and little finger can reach the range of nearly 180 degrees, which is longer than the hand that can't open to this angle. And in the performance, there are not many cases that need to reach the limit span (ten degrees and eleven degrees), and most of them can use arpeggios, that is, playing in turn, rather than pressing the keys at the same time. Therefore, the length of fingers does not affect whether children can learn the piano.

4. What should be the hand shape of learning piano?

Every child will definitely learn the correct playing hand shape in the first class when he officially begins to learn piano playing. Moreover, this hand shape will continue throughout the child's piano learning career. So what is the correct hand shape? According to different teachers and teaching methods, there are usually four methods: take an egg, take an apple, shake hands with each other and hang down naturally. This often makes parents wonder why the teacher of the neighbor's children teaches them to hold apples, while my children learn to hold their fists with the other hand. In fact, there is no doubt that these four types are essentially a way for children to understand the hand shape with image objects more easily. In fact, they all point to a hand-shaped standard-three convexities and one concavity.

5. What are the benefits of learning piano for children?

Parents often ask me, what are the benefits of letting children learn piano? Especially today, many schools have not listed the piano as a special course for junior high school students, and many parents are confused about it. In fact, the most important thing to learn piano is to let children learn to "persist". Because piano learning is something that needs long-term persistence, ranging from eight years to more than ten years, or even a lifetime. Learning piano can help children learn to do things from beginning to end, not for three minutes. When encountering difficulties, we should learn to overcome them, not to escape, or even to give up. Secondly, learning piano can also help children learn to focus on one thing for a long time. Today, with advanced technology and rich entertainment equipment, children are less and less focused on doing one thing for a long time. They often watch TV for a while and play IPAD for a while, and their attention is more and more dispersed. But practicing the piano requires more than 45 minutes of high concentration. Over time, the piano boy's concentration can be improved to a certain extent. Finally, because playing the piano requires the cooperation of both hands, it is necessary to pay attention to both hands at the same time, so that the left and right brains can be exercised at the same time, which can also play a certain role in children's brain development and active thinking. In addition to these three points, let alone cultivate children's musical literacy and artistic temperament.