teaching the piano
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Teaching the Piano
• Sit nice and straight on the piano bench.
• Keep your feet flat on the floor, if possible.
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Teaching the Piano
• Curve your fingers.
• Hold this ball in your hands gently.
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Teaching the Piano
• Release the ball while holding your fingers in place.
• Now place in the keys with curved fingers.
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Teaching the Piano
• Now you are ready to play.
• See how nice your fingers are curved over the keys?
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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)
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Teaching the Piano• There are white keys
and black keys
• Find the 2 black keys
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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.
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Teaching the Piano
• Find the 3 black keys on the piano.
• Play all the 3 black keys using finger 2, 3, and 4.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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!