The method
Your Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s often said that long, thin fingers are the hands of a pianist… but no, we’re wrong. The ideal hand for pianists should be made of short, thick fingers.
- When playing the piano, the weight of the body is transferred to the piano with the fingertips, so it makes sense to have a strong and stable hand.
- To have strength at the fingertips, you have to press the keyboard very hard with your fingers well anchored in the keys.
- And when you press the fingers on the piano, the shape of the hands should be rounded like a rainbow or as if you had an apple in your hand. The hand should not be too low or outside the keyboard, nor should the fingers be stiff like sticks.
- To get to the next level, you have to be able to play five pieces of the flight. 1 and 3 pieces of the flight. 2.
- The student must know how to play them by heart, respecting the rhythm, the fingerings, the musicality and being attentive to the position of the hands.
- From level 2 on, the student learns to decipher the scores. This work is very important for acquiring reading independence. Deciphering requires regular training to achieve reading fluency. At the beginning the student has difficulty making the link between the notes he reads on the score and what he has to play.
- During the lesson it is no longer the teacher who indicates the notes, the student has to read the notes with both keys, hands together. It is a work that requires time, concentration and perseverance, but don’t worry, the efforts are rewarded !
- >li> Memorizing a piece is part of learning to play the piano. In order to learn well, it is necessary to repeat several times and regularly. But playing a piece by heart is only possible for a short time, because if you stop repeating, the brain forgets. It is like when your child has learned a poem and knows how to recite it by heart; when he stops reciting it, after a few weeks he will have forgotten everything.
- That’s why it is necessary to continue to maintain all the pieces by playing them very regularly, and then little by little the child’s repertoire is built up !
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- Yes, but learning the piano for fun, as a hobby, still requires work. And since it is a hobby, it should be a source of desire and pleasure to learn. During the course the students learn a few measures and at home they must continue to maintain what they have learned so as not to forget. This is very important so that in the next class they can move forward, otherwise they are obliged to review what they have learned in the past class and it is a bit discouraging for the student. For the piano lesson to remain a pleasure it is necessary to have results.
- The work allows the progression and induces the fulfilment of having reached one’s objectives. Conversely, reaching a goal allows pleasure and gives the motivation to learn new things.
- In order to be able to download a score for free and legally, the work must have fallen into the public domain. The composer receives royalties and on his death this right continues for the benefit of the rights holders for the next seventy years, sometimes even beyond.
- The scores offered by Piano Academie have been arranged according to different levels of difficulty to adapt and correspond to the beginner, intermediate or advanced student.
- These are arrangements specific to Piano Academie which required rewriting and harmonization work to enrich or simplify the existing work. These scores are registered and benefit from copyright protection. Any reproduction is forbidden.
