Teaching Children Piano : Teaching Piano to Children Using Do-Re-Mi

Your children, the Do-Re-Mi song from the Sound of Music, your kids will know Do-Re-Mi, because it's in that song. They will have no reference for them like that is actually entails something, but they'll be like "oh yeah I've heard of Do-Re-Mi." "Do, a deer, a female deer, Re..." and this will bring on some sort of Julie Andrews sing-a-long. Which makes all people involved happy, but it's a fantastic course. Thank heavens for that movie because it's the first introduction to these terms; these crazy like syllable words that really have no meaning if you have no reference for them. So, we were talking about something before, and we talked about doing Do and Re, add Mi, Do-Re-Mi, in all sorts of places. I would avoid the black keys at this phase, be seen to what extent much you can get done without the black keys. But it's o.k. to put that in too; although there are it may cause difficulties sort of intuitively for them, they are likely won't comment on that trouble. They'll probably just accepted it as truth. The next place to move is to sing Do and Re and Mi on the staff.

So again you're teaching relationships; just like everything, it's about how things are connected. So, you're teaching that if this is Do, this is Re. We've already taught that on here, that's to attain sense to them. Now here's the visual representation of that, if this is Do, this is Re. Same thing on here, although I didn't depict the notes we were working with earlier. If the G is Do; and the G is on the G line because the G clef desires G and makes a hug around G, line two. Recollect all of that? It's o.k. to articulate it again, it's o.k. to say it a gazillion time, it's o.k.

To use the same wording for it. Because that's what's re-enforcing it into their brain, that's what's putting it in there locked solid. It's never going to leave if you use the same terms every time you discuss it that they are able to click. That if this is G, if this G is Do, then the A is Re, start with Mi then. If this is Do, the A is Re, this is Mi. It should make sense here, and it is appropriate to make sense here. Then you can use your materials; whatever you have, to do simple, straightforward tunes with merely Do, Re and Mi on here and see if they can follow playing it. This goes back to singing it, you can sing Do-Re-Mi-Re-Do. Can they play it? You're going to imagine, no, but they are likely can, your children are a lot smarter than you think they are.