3 - 8 Year old children's piano lessons beginner

Guide for parents on the children's piano lessons beginner course available on DVD.

There will be questions in your mind about how to help your 3 - 8 year old child get going with piano lessons when you probably have no idea yourself about how to start. What you will need to start off is guidance on how to

• Learn enough to pass on (as you go)
• How to keep a young child interested
• Avoid the stress caused by childrens wandering attention
• Know if and when the time comes to appoint a professional piano teacher

This course of beginner piano lessons has been designed for the parent as much as the children considering that both are likely to be classed as a beginner in piano terms (yet the parent will obviously be charged with fuelling the process).

3 - 8 year old children's piano lessons are not for the faint hearted to initiate, the challenges are daunting for the non-musical parent charged with steering a young beginner to enough critical mass of knowledge to provide their own enthusiasm.

This course of beginner piano lessons uses a character designed to appeal to all young children, whether they have an established interest in learning piano or not. Mimi the (musical) clown lives in Piano Land which is visually familiarising and instantly evokes the feelings young children will have acquired whilst watching television, cartoons, videos and films.

Of course, Mimi is merely a personna played by Danella Mercati - an experienced music, dance and drama teacher whose career has demanded much from her teaching at prestigious educational establishments. Danella knows how to hold younger children's attention spans and imparts the knowledge necessary towards guiding creative performances of many age groups.

Music is entirely logical in its construction and therefore yields easily to human intelligence when it is presented in the correct sequence. Like many other things, piano lessons may seem wholly too difficult to grasp when you are trying to add knowledge to what is not yet fully understood. The musical lessons on the DVDs makes sure that the learning capabilities of young children (and challenged adults!) can build knowledge that always enables further ground to be covered - motivation yields quickly to loss of interest without this principle in place.

Early beginner success lays solid steps for further achievement - and that is the chemistry for talent to blossom. It is a matter of common sense that 3 - 8 year old childrens piano lessons need to "enable" the beginner to constantly feel success, success that opens new and exciting territory that promises further reward quickly (isn't that what life is all about?)

Children are like absorbent sponges when they are confident and the activities are enjoyable (did your child ever proclaim "Mummy/Daddy look at me!"). As the adult you will not struggle to understand when the need for a professional teacher arises - you will struggle to keep pace with your child.

If that doesn't happen, you will know that piano probably isn't one of your child's natural talents - and the magic of discovering what is will begin again with no expensive loss of time or funds - just some memories acquired for future reflection! (And some new ideas for sharing on the next opportunity).

Piano lessons for a beginner

The initial lesson will be on introducing notes in the simple scale of C and how to recognise when to play them. There will be no struggle to wade through stagnant theory, just fun hearing familiar simple tunes materialise from sharing time together.

You aren't likely to run into any problems unless your piano isn't tuned properly (and if you are starting with a suitable electronic keyboard that simply won't happen). The material will be easy for even the most unconfident of parents to learn (you won't be shown up in front of your kids!)

The subsequent piano lessons on DVD2 will focus gently on helping your child (and you) decide when to play the notes. Before you realise it you'll both be reading music!

DVD3 introduces the left hand and you'll notice depth and richness of melody beginning to develop. At every stage something new will be added to surprise you on what you are capable of. Of course, at some point you'll need extra help from a professional piano teacher - whether that's for your child or both of you!