Rainbow Notes Baby Piano Introduction. Upper

Author: Cao Limei Pei Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This series of teaching materials uses the "color-assisted" method, combining visual and auditory elements to enhance children's interest in playing the piano. It reduces the difficulty of coordinating note reading, key recognition, and finger usage, allowing more focus on the appreciation, expression, and creation of music. The also integrates piano playing with singing activities that children enjoy. Popular songs are first taught through singing, and then children are encouraged to play them on the piano, fostering rich musical expression. Additionally, the combines piano playing with rhythm instruments, dance, painting, and reading activities tailored to children's characteristics, embodying the educational philosophy that learning should be joyful and playful.
In terms of piano playing techniques, this incorporates the strengths of multiple world-famous children's piano teaching materials, carefully selecting and designing them. It starts with simplified technical difficulties and progresses gradually. For musical expression, it provides opportunities and guidance to encourage improvement. Most of the pieces in this are adapted from familiar songs, folk songs, and children's songs in China, aiming to instill national melodies deeply in children's hearts. Additionally, it includes selected piano arrangements of outstanding children's songs or excerpts from famous classical works from around the world to broaden children's musical horizons and reflect the fusion of national and multicultural elements.
For piano playing techniques, this draws on the strengths of several renowned international children's piano teaching materials, carefully selecting and designing them. It minimizes technical difficulties at the beginning and progresses step by step. For musical expression, it goes to great lengths to provide conditions and guidance to encourage improvement. For example, it adopts a teacher-student collaborative playing format, starting with engaging pieces and using vivid, game-like methods to cultivate children's habit of synchronizing technical learning with artistic learning from the beginning. At the outset of piano playing, this allows a natural, "straight finger" (or "walking finger") technique in the initial stages, gradually forming proper hand posture through practice.
Most of the pieces in this are adapted from familiar songs, folk songs, and children's songs in China, aiming to instill national melodies deeply in children's hearts. Additionally, it includes selected piano arrangements of outstanding children's songs or excerpts from famous classical works from around the world to broaden children's musical horizons and reflect the fusion of national and multicultural elements.