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There's a good reason you searched for Piano Games: learning the piano is inherently difficult, and unless you dilute the process at least a little to allow for fun, kids will fold and quit. Statistics bear this out: nine out of ten kids who start piano with only the conventional "drudgery" methods will have quit within a year.
The easiest way to soften the rudiments of piano, for a child, is to cloak the curriculum in games, simple, fun to play entertainments that engage the child.
But before you get to piano games, the manner of the teacher should be addressed first, for there is no point in delivering "fun" if the child feels intimidated or guilty because of a teacher's overly serious demeanor.
So before you start, make sure you are genuinely ready for fun with a child, and all that entails.
You can take any concept in piano pedagogy and make a game out of it.
Let's look at fingering, the process whereby certain fingers, having been numbered, are assigned to certain notes in the piece you are about to play. It's a way of organizing the events in a piece of music. Easy for adults, hard for kids.
The first step is to make the child aware of their fingers, rather than engaging them in exercises.
I usually do this by taking a song such as Jingle Bells or Mary Had A Little Lamb and having the child play it.
You'd be amazed at what kids come up with: all thumbs, all pinkies, playing on the side of the hand like a karate chop. You name it, I've seen it.
When you see what the child does, be amused and point out how silly some of their fingerings are. The child will laugh, and that's what you want: a happy child is easy to teach.
By taking little parts of the songs, a few notes at most, you will be able to show them how you might finger that section. The secret is to accept every attempt at a solution with amusement. Never express disapproval, but instead just play the game again. Laugh. These are children.
Take Mary Had A Little Lamb as an example. The first three notes simply move down (to the left) three adjacent white keys. Show them how to play it with the first three fingers of their right hand. Give it a name, threesies, or something.
Then ask them to play that same configuration of fingers all over the piano. Be a game show host and sound the "wrong" buzzer when they fail, and offer them a million dollar prize if they succeed.
You're not teaching fingering now, you are playing "threesies."
That is a Piano Game.
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