How do children learn piano?

First of all, what is the orthodox way of piano teaching now?

I began to learn piano at the age of 4-6.

First, practice basic skills, including scales, chords and arpeggios in various modes. (For example, Hanon's fingering practice may add a Thompson to the younger one. )

Moreover, there are 599, 849 and 299 etudes by Cherny. These numbers are the names of Cherny's etudes books. There are about one hundred etudes in a book. Among them, 599 is the simplest, and 299 is a quick etude. In fact, the difficulty is quite a lot. )

Finally, if you want to go further, play Cherny 740 first, then Liszt.

Is it okay to learn the piano like this? Have achieved something? Really?

99.9% of children who study piano outside are like this. Then, according to the above way of learning the piano, from the age of 4-6, how much do you have to learn to achieve something?

What if yours? Have achieved something? I think there should be no major problems before I graduate from primary school, as long as I keep studying.

What if yours? Have achieved something? It means playing a tune as familiar as Alice, which is more than enough to learn in the second and third grades of primary school.

What if yours? Have achieved something? Children are very interested in the piano. They can play one in their spare time or a pop song without score. Oh, then I'm afraid the learning direction you gave him is completely different from the purpose you yearned for.

Why do you say that?

First of all, you will find that the above process of learning piano is very, very painful and boring. Preschool children are too young. They haven't heard any songs except nursery rhymes such as Little Star. They have no feelings for these classical songs, and they lack sex in their studies.

Many parents claim that their children aged 4, 5 and 6 want to teach themselves the piano. I believe that the child did say such things, but for a child whose concentration is only 20-30 minutes or less, he will soon get tired of the above-mentioned process of learning the piano. They can continue their studies only because they obey the majesty of their parents.

There are also many parents who say that my children have a strong sense of music. I mostly laugh it off. It's normal for children to pop up with one hand when they hear a song, which has nothing to do with the sense of music. ? I think a good sense of music is that your child is only 4 or 5 years old and can recognize the single notes or even chords you play without looking at the piano. That's amazing. If that's the case, I don't object to children's training in the direction of music.

Children who learn piano will inevitably shed tears when they are bored. Many parents think that you must insist on doing things. You hate me now, so you should thank me later. Then my mother was very strict, and my father couldn't stand it, and there were many quarrels. The mother disciplined the child in her mouth, but the pain was in her heart. When the child cried, the mother felt distressed. ? It is no exaggeration to say that many parents of piano children work as hard as they do.

I know many boys who play piano in primary school, and their personalities are twisted and abnormal. I'm not afraid to say that at all. In fact, you can see the clue from Di Yun and Lang Lang. Boys who learn piano are accompanied by their fathers and their mothers. Fighting against nature, staying with his mother for a long time, and these mothers who can let his son learn the piano are not simple roles, so boys who have learned the piano since childhood have some personalities. (Not all, of course, but this ratio is not small. )

Other parents want their children to pass the exam, not to make money with this skill in the future, but to promote you to learn the piano. So the effectiveness of the grading test is exposed, because the grading test is to specify the tracks, so you can practice those songs.

The evil consequences of traditional piano learning mode

The traditional piano learning mode eventually leads to two kinds of results:

1, spoon-feeding piano education has given children a good basic skill, but their interest has been obliterated.

In real life, people I know who started to learn piano at the age of 3-6 (note that all, not most) lost their interest in piano when they grew up. It's not that they never play the piano, but that none of these people will open the piano, study music scores and hone their skills in this place and that place after their twenties? In fact, I'm in my twenties, and I've been tested for more than ten years. I won't forget my piano level, but I've dropped at least two or three levels because I haven't practiced it.

2, there is no creative learning method, so that most children watch and play the piano, but there is no way to improvise accompaniment.

Even now, because many students are too young, teachers are under great pressure to teach students, and they have been unable to explain to their parents, so they just let their children recite the music directly, and their ability to read music is gone.

So looking back, why did children learn piano at that time? Do we let them play the piano from primary school just to make them completely lose interest in this kind of thing when they grow up?

Two objections to the traditional piano learning model

So today's article is against the world, and I object to two things:

I don't think 1 or 4-6 years old is appropriate to learn piano.

Everyone lets their children learn piano for the following purposes:

1, increase music literacy.

2. Develop left and right brain coordination.

I hope the child can sit quietly and concentrate for a long time.

So these things can be done at any time as long as you learn the piano? There is no need to start learning when children are very young.

/kloc-started to learn piano at the age of 0/2. At that time, I entered junior high school because I envied others for playing a song "Dance of Four Little Swan". At that time, I was already familiar with this piece of music. When watching others play the piano, I was shocked by the beauty of my right and left hands. Therefore, the first song I learned was Dance of Four Little Swan. ? Today, you let a 5-or 6-year-old child listen to this piece of music. They are at a loss and know nothing. How can they have feelings and interests?

I think learning the piano after 10 will get twice the result with half the effort. For Alice, it may take a few months for a 4-year-old child to learn the piano, but it takes a few hours for a 10-year-old child to learn it. If you are 30, 40 or even 60 or 70 years old, you can always learn something as long as you are interested in the piano. ? You see, in college, many people started to learn guitar just to chase girls, and in the end, many of them played it well.

2. The traditional piano learning method is used to train pianists. It is not the only way to learn the piano, nor is it the way a normal person should learn the piano.

The basic skills of traditional piano learning methods can make the pianist's fingers flexible; For example, Cherny's etudes are also very melodious, which can consolidate various basic skills.

Many people say that it is just right for children to learn piano at the age of 4, and it is even a little late to learn piano at the age of 6. This is because many basic skills are childlike innocence. Frankly speaking, if you hadn't started practicing the piano since childhood, you would never have become a figure like Lang Lang or Liszt. Like everything else, have you ever seen an Olympic champion who began to learn diving and table tennis in his teens? Which Olympic champion hasn't practiced since childhood?

But how many of us really intend to turn our children into Liszt? Since we don't need to be pianists at all, why should we train our children according to the pianist's method?

For example, learning diving and table tennis. Who says you can't learn now at the age of 30? But if you didn't become an Olympic champion, you wouldn't have to play 10,000 table tennis in leg press or against the wall every day, would you? Happily, we can also learn better than others. Isn't that enough?

A successful case.

More than a year ago, my boss and I were on the way to the detention center (because the detention center is generally far away, we chatted on the way). The boss mentioned that his 10-year-old daughter had always wanted to learn piano, and he was worried that she would not stick to it. I said that I used to teach piano, but my boss not only ignored me, but also laughed at me for doing everything (embarrassed, you refused my work-study program).

Later, I mentioned it several times (still on the way to the detention center), and finally I couldn't help but say, Lawyer Zhang, let me teach your daughter piano. It really took her only two hours to learn Alice, because that's how I used to advertise. ? The boss was surprised: Is that a song for Alice? I said, yes, this is the song. ? There is nothing you can't learn if you spend two hours learning paragraph A of To Alice.

So I began to teach the boss's daughter to play the piano. Once the boss watched me teach her and said with deep feelings: The traditional way of learning piano is simply crazy. Forgive my boss for speaking more directly than me. hahaha.

His children have been studying for a whole year now, and I gave birth to a child among them and stopped for a long time. I usually stop for a week from time to time because I am busy. She used to play for fifteen minutes every day. Later, at the urging of her parents, she could practice for 30 minutes every day.

After studying like this for a year, to what extent has she learned?

Now she can skillfully play a series of tunes, such as To Alice, Memories of Childhood, Wedding in My Dream and so on. For example, I started to teach her paragraph A of To Alice, but she played all paragraphs B and C by herself. The b and c paragraphs of To Alice are not very simple. I am surprised that she can play it fluently.

"Wedding in My Dream" is her own music, and I just need to give it a little push. And she plays really well and has great feelings. Once I heard her play the piano, I almost cried. If you learn this level according to the traditional piano learning mode, it will take at least three years or even longer to play these songs. And I have to practice for a long time every day, and my ass is worn out?

What moved me even more was that she listened to a series of songs called "Piano at Night" and began to know music by herself. I hate playing the music with the first five sharp notes, but she actually played it out of interest and no one stared at her. ? I think this is the most successful place I have ever taught. At least she's really interested in thinking about it.