Having taught piano for many years, a very popular question I am often asked is “When can my child start piano lessons?” No matter how many different ways that question has been asked, I say the answer varies so many times.

We know that all children are different. They have different abilities and skills. I would say that there are three categories to determine when your child can begin lessons: skills, emotional maturity, and natural musical abilities.

At 6 years old, a child begins to read and has a good attention span. It is a good age to start. Younger children (3-5) who enjoy clapping, singing, and moving to music can also begin to learn the names of the white keys. Basic black and middle counts are also entered.

There are wonderful programs like Musik Garden, Music Together, and WunderKeys for young children. There are many coloring books available for younger musicians to color the piano keys, musical signs, and symbols. I recommend WunderKeys Books and Bastien’s Piano Basics: Primer Level.

Another point of view is to start at 3-4 years old when they know the alphabet and can count to ten. At a young age it is possible to maintain a constant rhythm. I suggest you ask someone else to teach your child. So learning the letters of the AG alphabet and being able to recognize the numbers from 1 to 5 is a prerequisite for the little ones. Also, it is very necessary to sit still for 10-15 minutes while concentrating on having fun at the piano.

The sum is important because music is divided into measures. Children need to know simple math because each type of grade receives a specific number of counts. Recognizing whether the grades are the same or different is important. Also, it is good to know if the sounds are high or low.

Music For Little Mozarts is a wonderful piano method for preschool. This method incorporates aspects suitable for many learning styles: kinesthetic (movement), memory teaching, singing sol-fa and popular songs, as well as a lot of color to associate and learn in a concrete and visual way symbols and abstract musical concepts.

In terms of maturity, I would suggest the age of four or five as a good age to start on the piano. Kindergarten children are well prepared for games of any kind and are beginning to have the skills to put various hand movements together in a group of movements.

At this age, piano teachers can teach chords (three piano keys played with the left hand). If their hands are very small, they will learn to play 2-note chords (two piano keys, using the thumb and little finger).

I have found that children gravitate toward what is most comfortable for them. First graders seem to be magically wired to try out the piano and are so excited to play the piano! All the necessary physical perceptions are in place; numbers are not a problem, playing with both hands is not a problem.

First graders are ready to master the right hand of sheet music and participate in chord study. At this age, children are emotionally ready to play the game called “happy and sad” in which the teacher plays the chords and makes the child try to guess the chords. Are they emotional or dramatic in quality (higher), happy or sad (lower)? Kids love this ear training game.

Here are some tips to get started.

1. Teach the notes, the numbers, have the children decipher the commands and play the correct keys to the best of their ability, with any finger they can think of. Associate the fingers with animals, if you like.

2. Introduce the idea of ​​five fingers, slowly, as a game. In this way, they do not play with just the index finger, but with all the fingers. Have them press the 2 black keys and then the 3 black keys.

3. Play rhythm games and sing and clap loudly to reinforce the rhythm when playing the piano. Try simple rhythm games like “four” that give children the idea of ​​regularity, pattern, repetition.

4. Keep coming back to ideas over and over again. Repetition is good! Are the tones high or low?

Show positive reinforcement and recognition of progress with lots of praise!

Finally, there is no exact age for a child to start taking formal music lessons. As a parent, it is your role to determine if your child is ready based on your observations. Are you interested in the piano? Do you know the difference between tapping and tapping? The definitive answer will be led by children.

In Asian culture, the piano is considered the central instrument that one learns to first understand the fundamentals of music. To be able to play the piano successfully, Asians must be able to read both treble and bass clefs. That means understanding the complexities of a completely different language by the ripe old age of 3, which in turn allows most Asian children to understand how to efficiently use their left and right brain hemispheres at an earlier age. Have you ever wondered why Asian children are so mathematically and spatially gifted? That’s your answer. Asians will also enroll their children in music classes to serve the community.

A good start makes music education more complete and successful!