teaching the piano

Teaching the Piano

• Sit nice and straight on the piano bench.

• Keep your feet flat on the floor, if possible.

Teaching the Piano

• Curve your fingers.

• Hold this ball in your hands gently.

Teaching the Piano

• Release the ball while holding your fingers in place.

• Now place in the keys with curved fingers.

Teaching the Piano

• Now you are ready to play.

• See how nice your fingers are curved over the keys?

Teaching the Piano

• Your fingers have numbers

• Wiggle your thumbs (1’s)• Wiggle you 2’s.• Wiggle you 3”s (middle

finger)• Wiggle your 4’s• Wiggle you 5’s (pinky)

Teaching the Piano• There are white keys

and black keys

• Find the 2 black keys

Teaching the Piano

• Keeping your fingers curved, strike the 2 black keys using fingers 2 and 3.

• Find all the 2 and 3 black keys and hit them.

Teaching the Piano

• Find the 3 black keys on the piano.

• Play all the 3 black keys using finger 2, 3, and 4.

Teaching the Piano

• Now let’s begin the first song.

• These keys go down. Play the notes as they go down the keyboard.

• They will make a lower sound.

Teaching the Piano

• Continue to have fun as you play this song using your left hand.

• Use these fingers: • 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 2,

4, 4

Teaching the Piano

• Now let’s clap the counts to the song.

• 1, 2, 3-4 (hold)• 1, 2, 3-4 (hold)• 1, 2, 3, 4, • 1-4 (hold)

Playing the Piano

• Continue to practice your lesson every day.

• Be sure to hold your fingers curved on the keys.

• Sit up straight. Have FUN!