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Piano Lessons for Children: Counting Techniques

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Learn how to teach counting techniques to young piano students in this free series of music lesson videos from our expert piano teacher.

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Summary: Proper counting is a crucial aspect of playing any piece of music the right way. If a song calls for a whole note and the person playing it does not understand how long the note should be played, then the song will not sound right. Regardless of how well your piano student knows the keyboard or the bass and treble clefs, they have no future as a musician unless they can learn to count accurately. The dynamics of any sort of musical interaction, from a duet to a band to an orchestra rely on a common understanding of time keeping.

In this series of free piano instruction videos, our expert instructor Hope Wells demonstrates a series of counting lessons for your young musician. Broken down into simple songs with familiar melodies, these lessons provide the opportunity for Hope to point out problems and offer encouragement to her student. If your child can get the timing down for these basic pieces, they may very well have a future in the music business. Playing weddings and cocktail parties? Perhaps. Or maybe, just maybe, they will become a pop star and make you rich and famous. But they won’t get anywhere without proper counting skills.

About the Expert

Expert: Hope Wells, from Ohio, began to play the piano at the age of seven. She studied music and English at Otterbein College in Columbus, Ohio, and she has also studied acting at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and Los Angeles. Her history as a educator began with preschool music and dance. Since that time, she has taught private piano and voice, as well as elementary and high school music. Currently, she teaches privately through California Music Academy in Westlake Village, California.

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