Piano Teacher

The Music Room

Piano classes for 4-6 year olds

Play-a-Story for 4-6 year olds
Play-a-Story teaches the foundations of piano performance by using story as a backdrop from which to experience, play and learn. Before learning to play other composer’s music, children learn to play their own “musical story”.

Play-a-Story is a musical journey in which teachers and students travel through a storybook world. It uses the piano as its mode of travel, creating sounds, melodies, harmonies and rhythms to express the story… literally, students create their own musical soundtrack. Using the piano, students learn to interpret mood, color and nuance as the story unfolds. Play-a-Story teaches this by providing a foundational, systematic and creative experience that harnesses children’s intuitive, musical appreciation and interpretation.

The Play-a-Story program presents a journey into a new world.
In this world, every imaginative thought, every emotion and every dream is an opportunity to express ourselves musically. In this world, musical self-expression is our language… a language far more profound, intuitive and descriptive, far more meaningful and pure than any other.

In the Play-a-Story program, every student is immersed in the culture of a world that believes that music has the power to emerge naturally from within. The journey begins before students ever learn to play another composer’s music; they begin with the opportunity to discover their own musical ‘story’.

At the early age of 4 or 5, students are given musical sounds, motifs, styles, shapes and dynamics, laying down a comprehensive, improvisational foundation that equips them with the sounds of their new musical language.

About the stories:
Play-a-Story introduces you to three stories: Song of the Zephyr Wind, Ocean Lullaby and Travel Notes. Each story can take 6 to 9 months to work through. Each story builds, step by step, on the skills and concepts taught.

Your child will learn over 20 keyboard skills and concepts in the first story-based program called “Song of the Zephyr Wind”. An example of the skills include:

C’s
C 3-note chords
Arpeggios
2nd chords
3/4 time
Fs and Gs
F and G chords
Minor chords
Foundational music terminology

The Music Room

The Music Room provides early childhood music classes and piano classes for students four years old and above.

The early childhood classes are filled with fresh songs, dances and rhymes. Each term program is based on a fun theme. We use high quality instruments, colourful props, puppets, books and felts designed to motivate and engage your child in the joy and beauty of music.

All our programs aim to nurture musicality, nurture the brain and nurture relationships.

Simply Music Piano Program: Play-a-Story for 4-6 year olds
Play-a-Story teaches the foundations of piano performance by using story as a backdrop from which to experience, play and learn. Before learning to play other composer’s music, children learn to play their own “musical story”.

Simply Music Piano Program: 7 years and above
Simply Music is a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces – immediately – from their very first lessons. The recommended minimum age for children to begin with this program is 7 – 8 years.

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