Many parents will complain to Bolansler jun after their children practice, what if the children do not like to play the piano?
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"When I was a kid, I didn't love to practice!"
In fact, ms. Luo Fei, a young pianist in the United States, has never loved to practice the piano to fall in love with the process of practicing the piano, which is very representative.
My grandfather, grandmother, and mother all graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Grandpa is a conductor major, Grandma is a composer (masterpiece "Please Tea Song"), mom is a piano major, and Dad graduated from the China Conservatory of Music.
When I was a kid, I didn't love practicing! Since I was 4 years old, my mother has been using a strong pressure style to force me to practice every day after school. Every week, my parents would take me to piano lessons and accompany me to competitions and performances. I would be particularly envious of my friends who could play outside, and I didn't understand why my mother forced me to do things I didn't like to do.
Small leaf intelligent sparring
Later, ms. Luo Fei, a young pianist, and Zhu Xiaobei, principal of the Affiliated Middle School of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Tang Zhe, a teacher of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Youxi, a teacher of the Central Conservatory of Music, learned piano until 2012, and was admitted to the Manhattan Conservatory of Music in the United States to pursue a master's degree, under the guidance of Dr. Arkady Aronov. There were constantly students who loved music and practiced diligently, which slowly stimulated her real interest in the piano.
Learning piano, only when you have the goal of learning, you will work hard and want to do better. I began to understand my parents' example and persistence. In the past few years as a piano lecturer at the School of Music and Dance of Guangzhou University, I have tutored more and more students, and I have found that those children who play the piano well must have serious and persistent parents behind them.
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Learning piano is a waste of school
Or do you achieve academic success?
Some parents worry that learning piano will affect their children's studies, in fact, things in the world are not so complicated, because the truth of all aspects of learning is reflected in all aspects of learning, and the benefits of practicing piano are actually obvious. There are three main ones: developing intelligence and cultivating coordination; improving personal cultivation and cultural qualities; and cultivating children's endurance and confidence.
Developing intelligence -
The practice and performance of the piano is a vivid dynamic system, which always requires auditory concentration, the sensitive and active activity of the ten fingers independently, the different movements of the hands and their coordination with the whole body. Equal development of skills in the left and right hemispheres of the brain and improvement of coordination. Many facts have proved that children learning piano after school, their comprehension ability, receptive ability, imagination and creative thinking ability, etc., are significantly higher than those of ordinary children.
Improve quality and cultivation——
Children receive a good music education from an early age, which not only enables them to improve their musical literacy and artistic accomplishment, but also has great significance for cultivating a rigorous and down-to-earth learning attitude and consciously and diligently learning ability. At the same time, it also plays a subtle influence on a person's cultural literacy, moral customs, sentiments, and character formation.
Develop patience and perseverance –
Playing the piano requires relatively skilled techniques and techniques, and requires regular, scientific and permanent training. This kind of training requires perseverance, endurance, confidence and courage. Therefore, piano learning has a good effect on cultivating a strong will, tenacious and enterprising quality, as well as a down-to-earth, rigorous and scientific style. Exercising children's confidence and patience is the benefit of children learning piano.
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Piano teacher
What do you most want parents to do?
Today's children have a heavy burden of schoolwork, which inevitably makes parents who do not know the piano fall into anxiety even more. Slejun has 4 small suggestions.
A. Elaborate decoration: warm piano room
Children are willing to learn the piano, mostly out of curiosity about the piano, and at the same time, there will be a faint sense of pride in "the piano is mine". If children always maintain this sense of closeness to the piano, parents need to make the piano room full of warm atmosphere.
When you are new to the piano, you can put a child's favorite doll on the piano. When the child is bored in the process of playing the piano, he will subconsciously hug the doll, relieve the mood, cheer up, and continue to practice. Doing so will make the connection between playing dolls and "playing" the piano, feeling that practicing the piano is not far from his "playing".
When the child is used to practicing, the doll must evacuate the piano room, and it is recommended to change into a personalized "self-evaluation" environment. For example, put a beautiful vase on the piano, and when the child feels satisfied with playing, he can insert a reward flower. You can also arrange a unique "information release bar" in the piano room, so that children can evaluate themselves with icons or symbols.
Establish an intuitive and visible connection between the expectations in the child's mind and the results of the practice. This kind of silent motivation is far better than the verbal supervision of parents sitting next to their children, so you may as well try. But parents must not forget to use hugs and kisses to express your encouragement for their children's self-evaluation.
B. Practice time: Do not disturb
Parent sparring is not a long-term solution, and children must develop the habit of practicing independently. Some parents are always worried that they will not be able to practice without accompanying, in fact, the more parents accompany, the easier it is to develop their children's dependence, which will interfere with their children's focus on learning the piano. Therefore, let the child learn the piano "weaning" is not to stop paying attention to his learning and efforts, but to firmly grasp the "key moment" and support the child to insist on learning the piano.
The primary responsibility of parents is to let the child sit on the piano bench by himself, become a "prompter", and prompt the child at the right time that "it is time to practice". Then, the child himself hangs a "do not disturb" sign outside the piano room, so that the child develops a good habit of consciously practicing the piano.
Special reminder: Never arrange for your child to play with excessive excitement before practicing.
C. Play Before Playing: Enjoy "Free Time"
Being active is a characteristic of multi-math preschoolers, and practicing in the same position for a long time can really make them feel unbearable. Therefore, it is advisable to make an agreement with your child, "After playing the piano, you can play for 20 minutes" or "play the piano well to watch an episode of cartoons". In fact, for children, the greatest value is to experience the relaxed mood after completing the learning task, which will help the child to form a correct learning attitude and learn to actively self-regulate in the future.
Special reminder: If the child does obediently play the piano, parents must fulfill their promises.
D. "Moments of Crisis": Providing emotional support
Generally speaking, most of the reasons why children learn to learn the piano halfway are "stuck" on difficulties, and the repeated accusations of parents, compared with their peers, will further lead to children resisting and giving up due to fear and anxiety. In fact, due to the young age of the child, the psychological development is not yet mature, the behavior can not control itself, and the emotional support of parents in the "crisis time" is very much needed. The methods that parents can use are:
1 - Before practicing, discuss with your child when playing the difficult part, "Mom and Dad will be around to support you".
2 - When the child can not cross a certain hurdle and give up after repeated practice, parents do not have to say anything more, just touch the child for a moment or kiss the child's cheek, indicating that they are still full of love and trust for the child.
Here, Bolansler jun quotes beethoven, the young pianist Rofe's favorite musician:
Trickle-down water can eventually wear down the boulder, not because of its strength, but because of the dripping that does not give up day and night.
Musicology is endless, may all children have fun in it!