Beginner training plan
Your first lesson30-45 mins lesson
1. Introduce myself and get to know the students
2. Talk about learning goal (with the student/parents) - learning for fun/pursuing seriously? either way is good!
3. Introduce the instrument (piano) - naming the different parts of the piano, explaining the usage and purpose of each part for better understanding of the instrument.
4. Free playing on the piano! - familiarised in pressing the piano keys. Two-ways communication by asking the student questions about the sound (higher/lower), different colours of the keyboard (black&white), two-types of black keys.
5. Introduction of basic musical elements - time name (crotchet, minim, etc), musical alphabet, fingering, and dynamics.
6. Theory and revisions
Lesson 2-31 Introducing proper hand position, use picture for visualisation (cat paw)
2. Use familiar tune with a set fingering on the music sheets, dynamics and rhythmic pattern
3. Emphasising in using the right hand position to play.
By the end of lesson 2&3, students should be familiar with fingering, 2-3 different rhythmic patterns, and know the proper hand position.
Some fun activities such as clapping, using ball to get the right hand position, and movement activities to feel the music in the body.
Lesson 4-10- Strengthen the knowledge in rhythmic patterns
- play a familiar piece(s) in different octaves - to explore more of the keyboard and discovering the sound and characteristic of every octaves
- Theory, naming musical alphabet on the keyboard, knowing how to draw notes (crotchet, minim, etc.), able to name musical alphabet in order (going up and down, step and skip) to strengthen the knowledge of the keyboard geographically.
- Add more challenging pieces that has the musical elements in order to internalised the knowledge.
