My child wants to play a different instrument, not the piano. Why should I take Let's Play Music classes?
Let's Play Music uses the piano keyboard to teach musical concepts. Because the piano keyboard relates so directly with the staff, it is a great place to form strong connections between what a child hears and what they see when they look at a staff. Most instruments don't have this incredible feature.
Here is a list (in no particular order) of what SKILLS are learned in a Let's Play Music class that can be applied to ANY instrument. (That includes singing in a choir because your voice is your FIRST instrument!)
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Read music on a staff
- Sight read a melody
- Sight sing a melody
- Ability to transpose
- Ability to keep a steady beat
- Knowledge of rhythm
- Ability to play in tune
- Practice habits
- Playing as an ensemble
- Harmonize
- Improvise
- Classical music exposure
- Solfege
- Love of music
- Ear training
- Audiating
- Knowing what something sounds like before you play it
- Musical form
- How the staff works (high/low, steps/skips/leaps, intervals, chords)
- Sight reading music
- Singing (in tune)
- Perfect relative pitch
- Ability to accompany self or group
- Composition
- Teamwork
- Body movement
- Self-mastery
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