Yes, if you haven't listened to that already, then it's the perfect follow up to this episode. We're using performance pieces to apply patterns, practice technique, and learn keyboard geography, and also we're encouraging exploration and improvisation in a supportive environment.īefore we dive in, I just want to mention that Krista and I recorded a Q&A session, answering your questions about teaching older beginners, and we will be sure to put the link in the show notes or you can check it out on the Music Learning Academy YouTube channel.
We're leading them to musical understanding by providing rich musical experiences including tonalities, meters, and patterns. Gordon, because the same ideas apply to older students. So today, Hannah and I are going to cover the three main informal guidance activities, activity time, performance pieces and improvisation, and how they can be included in lessons in a way appropriate for older students. Many of the activities and clips you heard involves young students, so you may be wondering, what does this look like if I start a student at age 9, 15, or even as an adult?įor me, teaching older beginners and adults is really about taking everything I have ever learned about teaching children and repackaging it so that the older students are getting the same important fundamentals without feeling like they are being treated like little kids.Įxactly. As a recap, we covered the importance of informal guidance, what it is and what it looks like in piano lessons with activity time, performance pieces, and improvisation.
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Today is our last episode in the series on informal guidance with beginner piano students.
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We’re leading them to musical understanding by providing rich musical experiences including tonalities, meters, and patterns, we’re using performance pieces to apply patterns, practice technique and learn keyboard geography, and also we’re encouraging exploration and improvisation in a supportive environment.ĭon't forget to download the workbook that accompanies this episode! Gordon because the same ideas apply to older students. In this episode, Hannah and I take the three main informal guidance activities, activity time, performance pieces, and improvisation, and discuss how they can be included in lessons in a way appropriate for older students.
Many of the activities and clips you heard involved young students, so you may be wondering, what does this look like if I start a student at age 9, 15, or even as an adult? This episode, Guiding Older Beginners, in the series on informal guidance with beginner piano students.Ĭovered the importance of informal guidance (episode 6)ĭefined informal guidance with an overview of what it means in piano lessons (episode 7)Īnd discussed three main informal guidance activities: activity time (episode 8), performance pieces (episode 9), and improvisation (episode 10)