Teaching piano keys

Early Learning Teaching Your Child Music
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I labeled our piano keys with stickers (or pictures and tape). My son says “D” for deer, so I put pictures of deer on all of the d notes. I put bee stickers on the B notes. If your child knows letters, you could do more notes. A could have an apple…

Anyone else have a fun method?

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Now THAT is a great idea!

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Well, if you would check this forum, you would find better way to teach your child music notes!
Music notes and piano keys have straight visual connection:
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/‘soft-way-to-mozart’-piano-teaching-for-little-kids-and-beginners/

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Here is an interesting article I would recommend you to read:
http://www.emusicguides.com/info/Music-Education/Why-can-t-Jenny-play-the-piano--Part-1.html

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My daughter learned to read music and identify the proper piano keys as a baby by watching Trebellina, a music-teaching DVD, that teaches 11 notes starting at middle C (as well as pitch and other music concepts). Once she had those basic notes down, and got the concept, she learned the rest with flash cards.

We also traced her hands, numbered the fingers properly, and posted the “picture” of her fingers to help her remember finger numbers.

When we were trying to encourage her to depress the keys using the tips of her fingers, I put little dots on the tips of her fingers and encouraged her to hit the keys with the dotted part. She thought that was supremely fun. It was a bit mess, though, till we found the right pen! lol

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Dear all,

Any idea about a good resource for teaching piano keys & pitches in french format, ie, DO RE MI FA SOL … instead of C D E F G … ?

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That’s a great idea!

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Great idea, Teachthemyoung! :slight_smile:

“French format”? I thought it was called solfege.

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Dear KL,

In the major Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian), the syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, and Si are used to name notes the same way that the letters C, D, E, F, G, A, and B are used to name notes in English. For native speakers of these languages, solfège is simply singing the names of the notes, omitting any modifiers such as ‘sharp’ or ‘flat’ in order to preserve the rhythm.

My daughters are piano students in the Conservatory, and all books and material they use, is based on the Do, Re, Mi, … syllabes.

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Hi TeachThemYoung,

where did u get Trebellina DVD? sounds interesting :slight_smile:

thanks

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The website is www.Trebellina.com
(TeachThemYoung made the DVD :smiley: )

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thanks Nikolett :smiley:

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Major problems in music learning is not identification of keys, but instant correlation between them and music notation.
I think, the best and most effective way to mark keys is like this:

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As it goes to ABC names for notes with pictures, I do not see much sence in such approach, because kids, who know that C is a Cat can identify letters with no help of pictures.

I use pictures with kids from 2-3 - and these are pictures of Solfeggio notes: they learn how read, play and sing at the same time:
Do - Door
Re - Rain
Mi - Mirror etc http://www.doremifasoft.com/pikeystforit.html

But Do Re Mi is the best way to develop music ear using speech memory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_gr0YN1xb8

and natural proportions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCsNah6CtI

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Thanks Rima… for your comment. Defninitely I want my kid to learn by Do re mi fa etc… rather than by letters. no one uses that system in Latinamerica. I studied some music in the US and it is rather crazy to understand the difference between notes and “solfege notes” as they call it. You understand, for us, notes are notes, regardless of the key they are in.
I think HHs ideas apply better to us!! thanks HH for mentioning that your method goes by notes, not by letters :slight_smile: