Kids In Music

Haha that's my equal sign ( not-equal sign) there. Most people connect math to music. Well, the average people can do math pretty well. If a teacher asks 100 questions, most students can get at least 70 correct. Why is learning math easier than something like music? That's because math has only a couple of blind spots in learning while learning music has a few dozens.

So unless those blind spots are resolved, students will need to practice endlessly with repetitions to just get a little bit better.

Can you imagine driving on the highway of learning with 30+ blind spots? How fast can you go? Pretty dangerous too.

My students probably will not enter competitions with so little practice and repetitions, but they will more likely to have music in their life as an active participant than any other ways. They will always have a friend in Music.

Music is beautiful. It's helped me a lot during this unexpected pandemic.

That's my calling: to help the 99% of the children have music.

Morally I can live with my students' "lacking competition opportunities" or not having a college music degree.

I like to see them amaze themselves when exploring piano. That's all I can do when they are still young.

一般人都把學習數學和音樂連在一起。其實呢學數學還挺簡單的.就算遇到一些難題 也可以不太為難的解決。那為什麼學音樂卻有那麼多困難？

最大的不同是音樂學習中有太多的盲點. 大概幾十個.數學就一兩個盲點.所以中等的學生學數學至少可以考70分以上.這樣子不錯啦。老師問100個問題 中等學生正確而快速的回答70個。

用同樣的時間學習樂器或鋼琴、這個學生就失敗啦。如果學音樂的盲點不一一解決 那麼你的鋼琴老師是對的：就要不斷地反覆練習。

慢慢地進步是必然的 、這種邏輯也挺受學界的歡迎。我捨不得學生的痛苦 所以過去20年 就就一個一個的把他們的學習問題解決掉了。

或許我的學生沒辦法參加高等比賽、可是他們這輩子永遠都會快樂的彈琴。他們永遠都有音樂做他們的好朋友。我也只能給這個。

Condi Rice and Albert Einstein Show Why We Need the Arts Tim Kaine and Drue Kataoka write it's not just art that benefits from arts funding

This is organized by progress. It is based on the curriculum I developed over 17 years. This particular progress is true to the time table of the average 3 year old students who have below to above average talent, intelligence, and with average academic ability and personality. The performers in the videos might be younger or older depending at what age they started with me. Oldest children I can admit to the curriculum with confidence is 3 years and 6 months old.

Older kids will progress faster. This progress is based on limited piano-practice time by all standards, 5 minutes per week at home in the first few months to 45 minutes per week after 2 years of piano.

This evolution of the curriculum required qualities that are more than a teacher’s typical loving, fun, warm, and patient personality along with a degree from a top conservatory; it required a teacher to be keenly observant, accurately intuitive, imaginative, will always resort to think outside of the box, can persevere through difficult times, and in my case, I also combined the old eastern (and western) philosophy with other professionals’ modern social-science and medical research on the mental development (often times, I disagree with their results, however).

Because I valued every second of lesson time, it encouraged the students to learn faster every year. This curriculum has stood up to both the traditional and modern way of teaching young children music and overthrown their concepts.



Typically, age 3 and half, after 1 month of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdtSr3lYMzE
"hot cross buns" Right Hand


, age 3 and half, after 1.5 months of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW25ZV2AbXc
Read Music, "speed boat"


, age 3 ¾ , after 3 months of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgb3vn_sxU
3rd month- Both Hands Together, beginning "black key song"


, age 3 ¾ ish , after 3 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etf7HnnG2Cw
- "blues scale"

, age 4 , after 5 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sytaCzqJys
- "blue scales" (“finishes”)

, age 4, after 5 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBIwmGYyNA
Lightning ranger

, age 4 , after 6 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7EkeifaLQ
-train song

walking on street to his piano lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0e6iShCoSo

arriving at his piano!
Typically, age 4 ½ , after 9 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTSRgYMjBg
"malagueña" -Typically: kids can start at age 4 and 5 months

, age 5, after 10 months of piano (that is 1 calendar year)-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9H07jdsR21s
(“can-can) Typically: kids can start at age 5


, age 5 , after 1 year of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5NPJ2iz_sA
Typical age: 5 "calyoso"


, age 5 ¾
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlQv8H7o3Q
- "Fandango"

, age 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqcSQ8AFwo4
- "Sonatina Clementi" (Alexandra)


, age 6 and half
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlNR2UocQ0
- "sonatina in c"- Mozart


, age 7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81HXFEMkmqU
-Entertainer

1st month- Right Hand "hot cross buns" Typical age: 3 year 6 months Typical piano age: 1 month

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