A piano teacher for smart kids know how to disguise the repetition of short passages for the student is not fatigued by repetitive stress.

In the teaching of piano, a small part of a piano piece is usually called a “passage.” A passage has to be worked, like plowing a field, until soft and can be recombined with the rest of the piece.

Younger children require more creative effort by the teacher for the repetition of passages like their shorter attention spans.

But first we must ask, why repeat all places?

The answer is, of course, continuity. Music is more enjoyable when it is continuous, not interrupted by the smooth shell with no experience. For example, if you listen to a pianist or a group or singing in church, the group does not stop if there is an error: it is the musical continuity.

And the continuity comes from familiarity. If you are familiar with all parts of a song, it is reasonable to assume that you can listen to music continuously, so that your listener may enjoy it.

So the repetition is to familiarize your mind with every little wrinkle in the piece. Think of it as driving a deep in your subconscious thought in the back of his brain.

Glenn Gould, a famous concert pianist and iconoclastic, said he sometimes looked at his hands and thought he was not playing, the music was so ingrained in your brain that it was unaware of the efforts needed to play Bach fugues without thinking about it !

But that’s what you’re after, a kind of out of body experience where you know the piece so well that his fingers almost play themselves.

So how to disguise the repetition of small children?

First, teach the rudiments of six short piano pieces that they know out of piano lessons, such as Jingle Bells. There must be a whole song can be a passage or fragment. Then type the names of the songs from a post-it in a numbered list. Take a pair of dice and let the child throw and see what song they play. This takes the tedium of playing a piece and again. In addition, make it a dice game.

Secondly, the bait and switch. Working in a passage a little, then say, “Oh, let them for a while, especially when you see the first signs of fatigue. Work on something else for a while and suddenly returned to the first task, abandoned. Seem cooler to the child a second time if there has been rest.

Third, make a game of it. Ask them to bet on a sofa in her mother can not play that song again to perfection. Make your bet based on something completely ridiculous, like washing machines, but they act very serious. They play. As I repeat, perhaps one or two things to note, one fingering here, add a part from there and work on it a few seconds, then move on.

Take three of these ideas and combine them, and has a child-friendly way to “practice”, repeating short passages over and over again without the child feeling exhausted.

Offering a child a set of piano to the same extent that working hard is a recipe for a happy student who comes to his own pace, comfortable.

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