Kids In Music

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This is organized by progress. It is based on the curriculum I developed over 17 years. This particular progress is true to the time table of the average 3 year old students who have below to above average talent, intelligence, and with average academic ability and personality. The performers in the videos might be younger or older depending at what age they started with me. Oldest children I can admit to the curriculum with confidence is 3 years and 6 months old.

Older kids will progress faster. This progress is based on limited piano-practice time by all standards, 5 minutes per week at home in the first few months to 45 minutes per week after 2 years of piano.

This evolution of the curriculum required qualities that are more than a teacher’s typical loving, fun, warm, and patient personality along with a degree from a top conservatory; it required a teacher to be keenly observant, accurately intuitive, imaginative, will always resort to think outside of the box, can persevere through difficult times, and in my case, I also combined the old eastern (and western) philosophy with other professionals’ modern social-science and medical research on the mental development (often times, I disagree with their results, however).

Because I valued every second of lesson time, it encouraged the students to learn faster every year. This curriculum has stood up to both the traditional and modern way of teaching young children music and overthrown their concepts.



Typically, age 3 and half, after 1 month of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdtSr3lYMzE
"hot cross buns" Right Hand


, age 3 and half, after 1.5 months of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW25ZV2AbXc
Read Music, "speed boat"


, age 3 ¾ , after 3 months of piano- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgb3vn_sxU
3rd month- Both Hands Together, beginning "black key song"


, age 3 ¾ ish , after 3 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etf7HnnG2Cw
- "blues scale"

, age 4 , after 5 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sytaCzqJys
- "blue scales" (“finishes”)

, age 4, after 5 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBIwmGYyNA
Lightning ranger

, age 4 , after 6 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7EkeifaLQ
-train song

walking on street to his piano lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0e6iShCoSo

arriving at his piano!
Typically, age 4 ½ , after 9 months of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTSRgYMjBg
"malagueña" -Typically: kids can start at age 4 and 5 months

, age 5, after 10 months of piano (that is 1 calendar year)-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9H07jdsR21s
(“can-can) Typically: kids can start at age 5


, age 5 , after 1 year of piano-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5NPJ2iz_sA
Typical age: 5 "calyoso"


, age 5 ¾
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlQv8H7o3Q
- "Fandango"

, age 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqcSQ8AFwo4
- "Sonatina Clementi" (Alexandra)


, age 6 and half
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlNR2UocQ0
- "sonatina in c"- Mozart


, age 7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81HXFEMkmqU
-Entertainer

1st month- Right Hand "hot cross buns" Typical age: 3 year 6 months Typical piano age: 1 month