Why Your Child Isn't Practicing Piano...
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Parents! This one is for you. If you have a child who is currently learning and studying the piano, this lesson will help you and your child. Here are several tips and practices I advocate to help them in their piano journey.
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0:30 Tip Number 1
3:23 Tip Number2
5:44 Tip Number 3
7:05 Tip Number 4
9:05 Tip Number 5
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0:30 Tip Number 1
3:23 Tip Number2
5:44 Tip Number 3
7:05 Tip Number 4
9:05 Tip Number 5
Jazer aka the man who never ages, you put the A in Awesome!
I found, as a guitar teacher, it was almost impossible to get the parents to get involved in their child's learning. This depended upon the child, of course, and some of my students were stellar and self-motivating.
I became numb to the parents indifference, and shocked at how much they emphasized that it was MY job to make sure they practiced at home.
I just couldn't understand how they could bring a child into the world and then just dump them off to a complete stranger and expect no more involvement in their musical development.
I was pretty swamped, and felt like I had such limited interaction with the parents. I never felt good about this.
I had parents berate me in the 15 seconds I had between lessons, about how they weren't happy with how motivated their child was. Most of the time I never even got to speak with the parents because they were waiting in the car outside to drive them to another lesson, whether it be dance or soccer or something else. I would even call parents to discuss their child's progress.
I told them much of what you've outlined here, but so few listened to me.
So thank you for relieving me of that stress!
One more thing... there are AWFUL teachers out there. I watched other teachers who would do absolutely NOTHING during their lessons. Some guys would just play songs, or shred in front of the kid because all they wanted/needed was a pay-cheque. I encouraged all of my parents to sit-in and observe, but hardly any of them did.
Parents: be active in your child's life.
My daughter started piano at 3. To get her to practise regularly, I would sit at the keyboard myself and have a go at the music. When she heard the familiar notes (played well or not lol), she would come to me and want to take over and practise herself. This is really impactful, and it's something we 'sort of' do together - I'll start her off and she runs with the practise session whether it's a few minutes or much longer.
I love these tips. Thank you for them
As a piano teacher I find your videos always intelligent and insightful. Thanks
I think tip #2 is especially useful long term because one of the biggest hurdles is maintaining motivation. The more music you listen to, the more likely you’ll hear something you really, really like and want to play. Learning any instrument takes years and lots of folks quit because of losing motivation.
I started piano lessons at the same time as my daughter, because although I have played keyboards for many years, I was self taught. I found my playing was worse than I thought, but now I can play my daughter's pieces before she plays them, which I think is quite helpful. It is still a struggle to get her to practice. I think the choice of pieces is very important. The pieces in her tutorial books are often not that inspiring. But her keyboard has quite a few built in songs, which she likes and tries to copy (usually one handed, but that is better than nothing).
Love how emphatic and practical this advise is. Truly supportive and beneficial to the kid
Thank you Jazer! This is exactly what I need to help my 9-year-old son on his piano practice.
All great tips thank you Jazer! Tip number 3 (establish a daily routine) it is in my opinion the most important. It was tricky to setup a daily routine with my 3 years old boy and 5 years old girl but once we found the exercises they enjoyed the most they started practicing autonomously without me even asking. The exercise had to be 1) simple so they could perform it without thinking about it too much, 2) it had to sound amazing so they feel satisfaction, 3) and it had to be expandable so they could alter autonomously to find new nice sound patterns. Our exercise consist on playing around with broken scales, transposing scales, chords sequences and chord inversions. Piano has become a game like completing a puzzle or exiting a maze! Jazer it would be great if you could give us more tips on how to make great daily routine, thanks!
Love this. I started learning piano and my son is intrigued. Have an AKAI Mini MPK Play that has an internal sound bank so you can play on the go. I gave it to him long time ago and got another to make beats with on my computer. I learned “Hedwigs Theme” and he loved it to a point where I see him picking up the Mini Play I gave him a LOT. We can both learn at the same time I say. This video is perfect 🤘🏾
These are all good pieces of advice, and I have recommended them to both parents of child students and also to adult students, too! They all work well for measuring improvement and sustaining interest when getting pieces correct and up to tempo.
MY mother had to force me to STOP practicing!
How, please, how?!?!?!? The saddest day of my week is when I have to practise. I’m supposed to be practising right now! I’ve been doing piano for nearly 10 years, parents make will make me do it till I’m 18. I have to do it for GCSE (British exam) and I hate it, I would rather them force me to study, at least that would be helpful in some way. I’ve been doing grade 5 for a year now and am barely getting better
Wow....interesting
Except for tip 4, you hit the nail on the head with others. The failure of the other tips were my 12 year old self's downfall to practice and wanting to learn to play. My father had a music background but was always working to support a large family. My mother had no music background and was the go practice type. No one showed any interest in trying to make it fun. So, not showing any real progress after a year, lessons were dropped, the piano was sold.
That was 60 years ago. (I have recently started again.)
All of these tips are crucial to a child's success. Had these tips been applied to me as a child I would most likely be a competent pianist today.
Thank you for the this video, Jazer. Keep 'em coming.👍
To be honest, I don't think it's entirely the adult's responsibility to find fun ways to practice for the child. There is so much variety to what each child finds fun. As a piano teacher, some of my students have fun playing scales, some pieces, some only jazzy pieces, but what I find is that even with the teacher and parent trying different ways to engage the student, at the end of the day, the student's general attitude towards music will determine how they do. There's growth vs fixed mindset and how a student relates to challenges. SO many factors in a student's attitude will determine how fun playing music is for them.
I am 14 and I have been leaning since I was 3. This video is actually really intriguing to watch as a kid, but it’s so true. My parents thought it was so relatable because they’ve learnt so much on this 11 year journey with me. ❤
That is so sweet! Best of luck to you with your journey.
I am struggling a lot with gathering enough motivation. Perhaps this is a thing that we all experience from time to time. I never was gonna aim to become a great pianist, I just want to be able to create some simple melodies to share to my friends and meditate with. But to be brutally honest, ideas and creativeness also increases when our piano skills/techniques is growing. More technique means more options.
Thank you! Very useful!
Thanks for another great upload!
I have been taking piano lessons for 2 years in my early 60- still struggling to practice daily; thank you for great advice!
What works for me is to put my practice on a regular schedule rather than squeeze it in when I have time. I get up, do chores, practice, then have breakfast. At night, I practice before heading for bed. Figure what time(s) work for you and stick to it.
Man, you sure are smart. Great ideas.
I love your videos because whenever i open youtube you pop up and it makes me want to go and practice piano
Thanks a lot.Hope I can help my son
I love what you are saying!
Nice vid. It probably depends on what the parent's agenda is for the child. For myself, I took a long and enjoyable road to playing piano - that began with 2 years of formal lessons, but then had to stop - which had only to do with transportation issue, and time-of-day-for-lessons issue - as in my body doesn't handle getting up early in the morning in the dark to get ready for lessons, followed by going to school. My body actually can't cope with not enough sleep/rest - even though other people can. And I'm not a lazy type. So thereafter, I kept practising and developing (with the help of books, and online youtube vids, and music theory books/vids, and playing technique vids, and composition methods, and listening to lots and lots of different sorts of music etc --- and all these were produced by teachers, so I am not 'self-taught' as such -- because most of what I learned was indeed developed by teachers). Even listening to music is being taught, because we hear what's going on, and learn from that as well. The composers - through their music - are our teachers too. They are teaching us something through their music. For me - playing piano for own love of it and love of music is first and foremost. My aim wasn't to become professional or to perform live. But because I love to play the piano, then playing and performing in front of audience is no problem for me as well - as the piano just becomes a part of us after we work towards becoming 'one' with it over a long enough time.
I think that - it all becomes a matter of a parent's agenda. Forcing does sometimes lead to outstanding results too. But not forcing, and allowing a child to choose to learn whenever they want to - also works. It depends on 'goal' or aim. If the aim is to just learn enough to get some excellent enjoyment from playing piano, then most children and people will be able to do that when given enough time to develop. Progress can also depend on the internal base abilities of a person. Eg. their musical memory, and memory, etc. But 'progress' is something that I don't actually focus on - because getting to a particular level in some amount of time isn't important for me. I just enjoy the learning and development - however long it takes. And enjoyment of music and the experience and sensation of playing the piano (and hearing the amazing music that comes out) is quite important to me.
Also - I believe that a formal piano teacher that starts us off and gives us important foundation is very beneficial. And this is why I appreciate piano teachers such as Jazer and all. They provide excellent foundations.
My mom loves music and always had it playing in the home while she did chores, but I went to a private religious school and the songs were often hymnals. I have my mothers passion for music, but it only exists as a consumer of music whereas my mother and her brother both had backgrounds in actually playing instruments. I wish when I had the luxury of having lessons at the school that it had incorporated music I knew and loved. But I was also lazy, so it was my fault as well. I was not the most motivated 5-year old. Trying to learn from scratch 30 years later! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
U are just so cute 😂😂😂 and musically smart at the same time 😂 u r calm and dedicated, u choose the right topics and explain ur points nicely 🤌 really enjoy watching u, hope u r enjoying sharing as well 🙏
Great video as always! I see you have a lot of books, which are your favorite?
Hello Jazer! I’ve recently come across your channel, and I’ve been wanting to learn to play piano. I’m a COMPLETE newbie though, and my problem is that I suffer from something called “Executive Function Disorder”, which means that when I set out to accomplish a task, I have trouble breaking it down into manageable tasks and I just get overwhelmed by the entirety of the project and get easily distracted, thus nothing really gets done.
All this being said, you have mentioned that you are a piano teacher, and at the moment I’m not in a position to be able to take piano lessons here where I live, so I wondered if you might be able to come up with a syllabus for me. I’m an adult just learning how to play and as you no doubt know, with all the CZcams videos on piano playing, someone like myself would have no idea where to start or what order to learn things in. If you could maybe come up with a plan that I can follow, I would appreciate that. Please get back to me here, and let me know if that’s a possibility for you. If not, I _completely_ understand and won’t be offended in _any_ way. I realize it might take up more of your time than you can afford to give, but I think you give _great_ tips here on the channel and I thought that being a piano teacher, this kinda might be the sort of thing you do regularly as part of that anyway.
Keep up the great work here! You provide _wonderful_ information and tips that have never even occurred to me! I’ll be watching as many of your videos as I _possibly_ can, thanks again!!! 🙏🙏🙏😌
Firstly, I assume you have a piano of a standard outlined by Jazer here. There are adult courses available in book or online form, that's how I started learning, and progressed to seeing a teacher. Do an online search for something suitable for you as a beginner learning technique. I used a book published by Alfred's, but there are many equivalent texts.
Also ... my grandchildren are hesitant to play for me, as they feel inadequate against my years of learning. I've tried to reassure them, but I decided I would make it a treat for me. I always say "I'm glad it's practice time, listening makes me relax and I can enjoy my crossword/sudoku/reading" This helps a bit to relax them, even if it's absolute torture to listen.
1 issue that would come up is how to keep kids engage in music and not quit after just 1 year. As an adult learner myself, I would practice everyday and I enjoy making videos to share with people. Kids don't know how lucky they are when parents give them the opportunity to start early. Coming from a non-musical family, my parents were not keen to gets kids into piano or have a piano in the house.
Listening to a recording of what you're working on is 1 of the features of the Suzuki program. Every Suzuki Book comes with a CD of all the pieces. It's a good idea to listen to a recording so you know what to expect. You actually learn faster.
Parental involvement is a feature in the Suzuki & Yamaha music programs. I know a mother who accompanied her son to his lessons. She learned with him and acted as a mentor at home. The parents have no background in music. The child didn't show much enthusiasm practicing music. Mom practiced more than he did but after a year both quit.
Another case the father took lessons for a few years and passed conservatory exams. He felt that he was forced into music by his parents and hated the experience. He got his kids into music lessons. Dad offered little help when the kids were practicing at home. Within 2 years they quit. Music is often taught & practiced like exercises. There is little enjoyment in the process.
I have my grandson 6.66 years old m-f
No ipad(15 mins youtube kids, loves numberblocks and planet videos) until after piano practice ( 1. warmup scales, circle of fifths, weekly scale) 2. Piece working on 3. Improve. My goal Total of 15 mins but he usually does 30mins then ipad for 15mins. We started at 10mins but if he did practice well without fooling about he gets extra mins on iPad, if he fools around too much, No ipad that day😊
Child psychology can be a tough nut to crack. Some kids have to want it, no amount of parent interest or support is going to motivate him/her. I wish my parents had told me "if you want to be really good at something like piano, you have to want it. That want creates drive and determination. Where theres a will theres a way". But if theres no will, the parents wants wont make it so.
I loved music when I was a kid and guess what, my parents kept forcing me to learn “digital keyboard” (we usually call it “organ” in Vietnam) and guitar, that made me felt so trapped and I went against that. Maybe just me, I always hate when people tell me what to do, even if I know it's right but I will never do. And I started over with the piano when I was 26 😂😂😂
When we think about it - 'piano' comes from 'piano forte' - and even a digital keyboard actually falls under the 'real' definition of 'piano' - because a piano is actually any keyboard instrument that has independent loud/soft control of each key (note). So 'keyboards' and digital pianos etc are actually pianos. The dictionary definition of piano being a steel string instrument with physical hammers is actually wrong. The acoustic piano is just one type or category of piano. Keyboards and digital pianos are pianos.
Good morning piano Champions hello Jay-Z
These methods work for 23 year old as well!
Get your kid to teach YOU!
yo 💀💀
Probably because he doesn't want to, so why should he? Because of his parents' egos?
The thing is piano is really boring for beginners!! Monotonous!! Buy a cool keyboard with hammer action and hundreds of sounds to pic!! Each scale a different voice!!! Helps a lot!!! How about that?!?
A belt works too
I don't advocate violence.
Not even funny as a joke.
@@rosesred2155 wrong audience i guess
You dont, you should find a positive thing your kid is interested in and help them pursue it. Trying to force someone to do something they dont like is WRONG.
To all the parents watching this: DO NOT FUCKING PUSH YOUR KIDS INTO DOING STUFF YOU ENJOY. Let them play whenever they want and for how long they want. Pushing will only lead to failure and them abandoning playing or doing anything in life.
I don't think that Jazer Lee wanted to "say" with his video to push children or to force them to do something. He simply gave very empathetic tips on how to give children the joy of playing an instrument, including practicing it, even if you don't have any musical experience yourself.
I totally agree with you Andrei: Parents shouldn't try to live out their dreams about their children. Rather, they should fulfill their dream and learn an instrument themselves.
I think the word should be encourage, motivate, or supportive and not push.
@@angenalaschka5976 Totally agree that if the parent's dream was to play piano, they should take lessons themselves.
@@elissahunt yes! Thank you!
@@Critique808 Yes exactly!