Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:30:54 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/ Grand-Pianos.org Piano Planet en-us http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/images/logo.gif http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/ tomek@m106.com http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article11.html DO'S A short check lists of Do's and Don'ts for Parents who students are beginning piano lessons. Make clear to your child at the outset of lessons, in an enthusiastic manner, that music training is a long term process, just like school, but with many high points of pleasure along the way. Your child has his own unique pace, so avoid comparing him to siblings or neighbors’ children who may appear to be playing better than he. Anticipate “ups and downs” in his attitude and progress, along with a number of “growing pain” periods. Seriously contemplate how to help your child. Knowing when to help, when to be supportive, and when to withdraw to encourage him to help himself, is a parental art in itself. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:30:54 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article10.html Buying Digital Pianos and Keyboards ? Buying a digital piano could be a very delicate attempt, especially if you have no idea about pianos in the first place. This article is written to help you out how to choose the best digital piano. For starters, digital piano is different from an acoustic piano in many ways. A digital piano is a copy of what the acoustic or original piano is. However, instead of strings and hammers, it uses digitally sampled sounds, amplifiers and speakers. It was made to imitate the real sound of that of the original piano. Many people now prefer digital pianos. It is because of its portability, low-to-almost non-maintenance, volume adjuster and various voices. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:44:45 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article9.html How to Gently Extend the Practice Session for Beginners Parents are often disappointed in the length of time their children spend at the piano practicing. Most parents think their children should be practicing longer, and theyre probably right. What parents don't usually get, however, is that for young beginners it takes practice to learn to how practice! To overcome this learning gap parents initially need to focus on process and content rather than product.Since everything is new to young children, its a mistake for parents to assume too much. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:31:38 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article8.html Should I Buy a Digital Piano or an Upright Piano ? Digital pianos sound nothing like a real piano. Upright pianos take up too much room. There is a lot of conflicting advice floating around. I will give you the right piano buying advice so you can make your own decision on whether the digital piano or the upright piano is right for your needs. Digital pianos were invented about 20 years ago and when they where first introduced they were pretty terrible, the keys were much too light, spongy and nothing like a real piano. The sound was incredibly bright and the sampling was quite dreadful. You couldn't really say that it sounded much like a piano at all. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:17:13 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article7.html Digital Pianos Many families are now purchasing digital pianos to learn on. And why not? They're relatively inexpensive, take up very little space, and produce high quality grand piano sound. But there are certain drawbacks to owning one. For example, it's a good idea to play an acoustic instrument before trying a digital one. Why? Because no matter how well the piano sound is sampled, it will never match the pure acoustic sound and richness of a "live" piano. This factor is very important to some because they want to experience that organic sensibility only a true acoustic can give them. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:09:18 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article6.html Why is it easy to compose piano music? Because you have to start from where you are. This should be fairly easy; Otherwise you have not started from where you are. A suggestion is to start writing piano pieces for beginners in a progressive order. The idea is that as the pieces get more complicated for the player they will also become more complicated for you to notate and compose and you will subsequently learn as you write. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:03:21 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article5.html Piano Composition - You Can Do It! Have a child in piano lessons who wants to compose their own songs, but is having trouble getting started. Does he or she try to make up their own melodies on the piano ? Piano Students often think they have to be Beethoven or Mozart to compose their own pieces. It's not true. Here are five tips to help piano students begin to compose their own songs. Share it with your piano student at home. Or maybe you'd like to try your own hand at composition. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:55:05 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article4.html How Parents Can Support their Childs Piano Teacher Parents can play an important role supporting their childs piano lessons and their piano teacher. However, about a third of parents do too much and try to take over responsibility for their childs progress, which hinders their childs ability to develop positive learning skills on their own. In contrast, about a third of parents dont do enough, and fail to support and can get in the way of their child's learning. The remaining 1/3 gets it right. Take the survey below to find out which group you fall into. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:35:15 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article3.html Beginners Piano Lessons Should be Exciting What is it that a beginner at the piano wants to do? They want to make music! It might be classical, jazz, or something else, but one thing's for sure; they don't want to spend months studying boring theory. What if instead of studying note reading, beginners piano lessons were focused on the student actually learning how to create music? Just imagine the excitement when the notes and chords played are all original and express what is actually being felt. Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:22:24 +0100 http://www.grand-pianos.org/piano/Article2.html Make Time in Your Child's Schedule for Piano Lessons There is no better time than the New Year to begin piano lessons. If you have been thinking of enrolling your child in piano lessons, don`t wait because piano lessons are so valuable for children. Parents know this, but a common excuse given is "We are so busy, how will we find the time?" The truth is that all human activity is goal driven, but we don`t all focus on goals that will bring us the most benefit over the long term. To do this we need to manage our time, but the catch is that managing our time is really a function of goals and perspective. This is not a chicken or the egg question, however, because achievement has a history - a definite beginning and a process of follow-through. Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:40:20 +0100