Welcome To Wendy's Playful Piano Website!

 

 

A fun approach to the piano for young children under 8 years

Nurturing children's creativity, confidence and love of music

Teaching musical skills through playful methods

 

• One-to-one sessions in a private house in Beeston NG9
• All children welcome, including those with additional needs
• Parents and carers generally stay to observe/support

 

Cost: 1st 5 lessons £16.50 for 30 minutes (including chat & feedback time) 

Further lessons £20.00 for 30 minutes/ £26.50 for 40 minutes; normally invoiced for a school term.

 

Giving children opportunities and encouragement to

• express themselves and develop their creativity
• experiment and learn informally
• learn musical concepts and healthy piano technique to suit their age and stage
• increase their confidence and self-esteem through a positive and interactive approach

• Explore the keyboard: high and low, black and white etc.
• Improvise or compose music for imaginative play, stories and songs
• Have a keyboard race with a dice or spell simple words, to learn the names of the keys
• Listen to and play with word rhythms, using favourite topics
• Learn to play some enjoyable pieces by rote
• Keep the beat, sound out and read rhythms with cards and games
  
• Learn to read music in a meaningful and enjoyable way
• Hold musical conversations and play copying games at the piano
• Accompany each other with drums and other percussion
• Learn simple songs with pitch actions or hand signs, and play them on the piano
• Finger play and finger workouts to develop co-ordination and good technique
• Start to work through piano method books such as Piano Adventures, Piano Safari, Music Tree etc.