What is Piano Comics?
Piano Comics are music tales for piano with illustrations and lyrics that rhyme with the melody. For a detailed description read here.
Who is it for?
Piano Comics are for piano students, Late Beginners to Early Intermediate levels, aged 6-12.
How to use Piano Comics?
Piano teachers can use Piano Comics in a number of ways and adjust it to their own piano teaching methods. Here I give some examples of the ways I have taught Piano Comics to my students.
Free Piano Comics resources to watch, listen to and download the scores
- Watch and download the first two pages of '20 Piano Canons' here.
2. Watch and download the first two pages of 'A Strange Gift' here.
3. Watch and download 'Introduce the Blues Scale' Piano Comic here.
4. Watch and download 'Teach Antiparallel C-major Scale' Piano Comic here.
5. Watch and download 'Introduce the form of Imitation' Piano Comic here.
6. Watch and download 'Teach speed Through the Chromatic scale' Piano Comic here.
7. Download the scores+comic of polyphonic piano duet, level: late beginners 'My fur is silky sleek' for 4 hands.
8. Download the scores+comic of piano duet-study, level: late beginners 'Fishing in the Dark' for 4 hands.
9. Download the scores+comic of piano duet-menuet, level: late beginners 'Where are your dance shoes?' for 4 hands.
10. Download the scores+comic of piano duet-canon, level: late beginners 'Catch me if you can!' for 4 hands.
11. Download the scores+comic of Jazzy Blues-Bluesy Jazz piano duet 'Get me my appetizer: Fried grasshoppers sprinkled on a snail' for 4 hands.
12. Download the free sample scores+comic of a polyphonic piece from 'Box of Music Treats', level: beginners for all major scales.
13. Download the free sample scores+comic of a study from 'Box of Music Treats', level: beginners for all major scales.
14. Download the free sample scores+comic of a canon from 'Box of Music Treats', level: beginners for all major scales.
15. Download the free sample scores+comic of a 'Jazzy Blues-Bluesy Jazz' from 'Box of Music Treats', level: beginners for all major scales.
16. Download the free sample scores+comic of a menuet from 'Box of Music Treats' , level: beginners for all major scales.
17. Download the scores+comic of 5 polyphonic pieces in c-major for 5 different levels: beginners to elementary.
18. Download the scores+comic of 5 canons in c-major for 5 different levels: beginners to elementary.
19. Download the scores=comic of 5 menuets in c-major for 5 different levels: beginners to elementary.
20. Download the scores+comic of 5 studies in c-major for 5 different levels: beginners to elementary, page 1
21. Download the scores+comic of 5 'Jazzy Blues-Bluesy Jazz' in c-major for 5 different levels: beginners to elementary. page 1
Why should I use Piano Comics in my teaching?
This method was created to help my students understand the nature of music in our everyday life, how it exists inside our own body, feelings and speech. It serves as a way to re-engage students in piano lessons and it also uses visual impulses to ignite the interest of those who need them to learn new information. For more details read here.
What are the benefits of using Piano Comics during my piano lessons?
In Piano Comics we teach basic music principles, such as music articulation, dynamics and their changes, tempos and their changes, different types of accents, alternative fingering, rhythm stability, music forms, listening skills, ear training, accompaniment and solfeggio. For further details read here.
