Teaching Children How to Read Repeats When Playing the Piano

Video Transcript

"Where do you put your hands? Perfect! Good! 1,2,3, repeat. Perfect, good job. How did you know how to repeat? If I were not to say repeat how would you have known? That. What does that do? It makes, it wants you to go back and do it again. Exactly and if you had to draw that how would you draw that? You have to tell me in words how to draw that. What would you do? A marker, a pencil, make 2 dots. Perfect! A marker, a pencil and 2 dots. That is perfect. Awesome! Does it have any rest in this whole song? No. So when you get to the end of this do you have any time to rest before you go back to the beginning? Well yes until you get to here. Yes. Do you ever stop playing though? Does your finger ever come off of the keys? No. No, so you have to be ready it is kind of fast. It has to be even faster than what you did. Can you do it again for me? Yes. Awesome. What position is that? Middle C position. Middle C position, perfect and what hand are you playing with? Left hand. Left hand. How do you know it is left hand? Because that tells us, it has a picture and what does the L stand for? What does the L stand for? Left. What would is say if it was for right hand? It would be a R. It would be a R, perfect. Okay let me hear it. Then I play with you. Perfect! Okay can you move up a octave? What does that mean when I say up a octave? You have to go. Right to the next what? To the D next one. So we have to find another C don't we. If we don't count before we start we can not start together can we. Oh ya. 1,2 go. Repeat go. "