‘Little Bunny’ by Piano Comics a piece to train tempos, dynamics, articulation and major-minor aural skills
‘Little Bunny’ is a piece by Piano Comics that I created for my preschooler beginners and transcribed it for late beginners as well ( students learning piano for over a year ) . Here you can watch me and a 7 year old student playing it and at the end of this post you can […]
How many eyes does a pianist have? 12! A trick to help students trust their hands by Piano Comics
How many of your beginner piano students can’t decide where to look at as soon as they start reading scores? Here is an experiment I like to do to prove to them in 5 minutes that they can ‘see’ with their fingers. In this video I do this trick with a 7 year old beginner […]
How to tune up a musical ear in young piano beginners? by Piano Comics
In this video you can watch a 7 year old piano beginner that started piano lessons 6 months ago. Although she is a beginner I made her play an easy piece-song with lyrics that she learnt fast. I didn’t use many keys because I also wanted to use this piece with preschoolers so the notes [&helli
‘Spiky woke up feeling grumpy’ by Piano Comics for piano preschoolers
‘Spiky woke up feeling grumpy’ is a new song for piano preschoolers. There are 2 score versions: the 1st one is the original ( for the teacher to play or students at intermediate piano levels) just for the young piano beginners to sing and a 2nd version where even preschoolers can play i
‘School Again’ an easy piano piece for preschoolers to learn dynamics by Piano Comics
‘School Again’ is a song I created for a 4 year old and a 5 year old student. It uses 3 consecutive keys , do, re, mi ( c, d, e ). I usually use these 3 keys so that the kids start noticing the different patterns of 2 black keys and 3 black keys. […]
‘Lady Bug’ a song for piano preschoolers by Piano Comics
This cute, short, easy peasy little song called ‘Lady Bug’ can be taught to preschoolers and older piano students. It teaches forte, piano, allegro and adagio as the Lady Bug is being loud and carefree in the beginning but not so joyfull in the end. It also trains the ear to major and mi
A matching game to learn the dynamics in music by Piano Comics
When I want my piano beginners, especially younger ages and preschoolers, to learn a new music term or principle I always try to find examples from everyday life and demonstrate it. It’s not enough for me to just show it on the piano. Yes, piano means soft, quiet and I can play soft and quiet
Have fun learning music theory with ‘Workbook Sheet Music’ for piano beginners by Piano Comics
Need a light, fun break in between regular piano practice, scales, etudes and repertoire or exam pieces? Use the games and fun activities from ‘Workbook Sheet Music’ for piano beginners by Piano Comics. This 64 page digital material teaches basic music theory principles such as dynamics,
When piano students practice during holidays whitout even realising it! Free fun worksheets by Piano Comics
When holidays approach, especially after concerts, the only thing that we as piano teachers desire is to rest. But we always will give some holiday homework with the hope that our students will practice a bit. And since we too need the rest, making the time and energy to prepare new music sheets, ga
Introduce 6 composers to your piano beginners by Piano Comics
This post is about the last -5th- chapter of my latest product ‘Workbook Sheet Music’ for piano beginners. It introduces 6 composers to students with 2 of their well known pieces transcribed for late beginners and early elementary levels. The composers are: J.S.Bach, W.A.Mozart, L.V.Beet
