I grew up playing the piano and would love to share music with my grandchildren. This is going to take some planning though. First, I have borrowed a keyboard from a friend and my daughter needs to get a keyboard for Chase. Then I will start lessons from one of the registered teachers. Knowing Chase will not sit for a regular lesson, I think I can convert my lessons to 3-4 minute segments for Chase.
The mini-clip I showed you is just a snippet of the creative way to make the piano fun. The first thing I did was have a frog toy for him to play with. Then I will find a frog story to tell Chase. Next, I will have him "hop" like a frog. And finally, add the music component of how a hopping frog would sound on the piano. The child only needs to pick 2 black keys, use fingers 2 and 3, do a sequence of 2 at a time for the hopping sound and go left-to-right up the keyboard. As you can see in the short video, it is easy and quick. I will need Lindsay to assist with his hand position and which fingers to use.
The Musicopoly method has more details about building on techniques for playing the piano at this age. It's amazing to see the concepts of hand position brought in to the story. There are more animal sounds and fun ways to learn piano basics once you get started. I am really impressed with Musicopoly. Check it out!!
