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Want your children to learn to appreciate the beauty, peace, and simplicity of nature? Then pass these values on to your kids with music. Music is a powerful tool for expressing ideas and values. Don’t let the only music your children hear come from pop tunes on the radio. Enroll your children in music lessons such as the piano to expose them to a tradition of values that will last them a life time.

Musicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries composed music adapted from traditional folk songs portraying the sights and sounds of rural life and nature. These “modern” pieces were well remembered by the growing middle class of concert goers. Composers wanted to be remembered for their music with accessible music that was simpler in form and easy to recall. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is an example.

Children have always enjoyed playing folk songs because the words and melodies are easy for them to remember and sing. Plus the values and ideas they express feed the souls of young children with calming thoughts of nature and simplicity. Here are examples of the folk tunes young children in piano lessons can learn to play in their first or second year.

Home on the Range

Simple Gifts

Shenandoah

Puff the Magic Dragon

All through the Night

Lavender’s Blue

Country Gardens

Down by the Riverside

Home Sweet Home

Shepherd’s Song (from Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony)

Enroll your children in piano lessons and you’ll be giving them the power of music to fill their souls and protect their hearts musical values they’ll remember for a life time. Plus piano lessons are valuable for young children as they help them learn key reading and math skills, learn to set goals, learn to be persistent, and learn how to take responsibility for their success. Don’t let the only music your children hear come from pop tunes on the radio. Enroll them in music lessons such as the piano to expose them to a tradition of values that will last them a life time.

For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You’ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f’ree internet newsletter so you can download f’ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.

These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com

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Beginners tend to get focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and forget the point of playing - to bring personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Here’s some ideas to help beginning piano students energize their music and bring it to life with personality and style.

1. Relax so your body can easily respond to the music as you play.

When students play stiffly they aren’t able to feel the music and to express it with sensitivity. Be sure to breath slowly and deeply while you are playing to keep your body relaxed.

2. Feel the vibrations of each note as it is played and allow it to resonate through your body.

Being relaxed allows students to feel the vibrations of each note as it is played and to allow the vibrations created by each sound to resonate throughout the body. This is like “plugging the piano” into your nervous system. It creates an energy circuit that infuses the music with the human sensitivity of the artist.

3. Hear the music in your mind and decide how to touch each note.

The next step is to hear the music in your mind and decide how you want each note to sound before it is played so that you’ll know how to touch the keys. Play the music intimately as though you’re telling an interesting story to your best friend. Use your energy to make the music personal to you and unique to your own taste and style.

For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You’ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f’ree internet newsletter so you can download f’ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.

These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com

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Kids wonder about everything. “Why did you do that?” “What are you doing?” “What’s that for?” If the questions are starting to get to you, it just means its time to use this energy to fuel your child’s musical imagination. Piano lesson books for children use illustrations from everyday life to get musical ideas across to children. Here’s ten questions to help your young child explore musical ideas. If your child doesn’t know the answer, just ask them, “What do you think it would be if you did know?” This is a great activity to get kids to use their imaginations even more. Just remember that all your child’s answers are okay.

1. “Why do birds sing?”

2. “Where does music come from?”

3. “Why does it sound pretty when people sing together?”

4. “Why does a Tuba sound like a Tuba?”

5. “Why does a Piano sound like a Piano?”

6. “What kind of an animal would sing a lullaby better, a Bear or a Bunny.”

7. “How come this music makes you want to dance?”

8. “Why does this music sound sad?”

9. “Why do you think children sing the alphabet song to learn their letters?”

10. “Why do children like music?”

Piano lesson books use all kinds of illustrations to get musical ideas across to young children in piano lessons. Birds Singing, Jumping Rope, Skipping, Ballet, Baseball, and Furry Animals are just a few. So don’t be afraid to ask your child some silly questions to spark their musical imaginations. They ask you enough silly questions!

For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You’ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f’ree internet newsletter so you can download f’ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.

These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com

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