How to Count Beats When Teaching Piano for Children

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"What number is that? What count is that coming on? One. No. Not one. How many beats in every box? Three. Three, how do you know it's three? Right, because that tells us. When we look at this, we look at the top one, what do we do to the bottom one? The bottom number. Ignore it. Ignore it, so cross it off I was going to have you cross it off. Cross it off, hello three, goodbye four. Alright, so this can't be one, because it's the only one in the whole box. What does it have to be? Three. Cool. So I should have a number one and two chilling out someplace. Where are they going to be chilling out that I can find them? How many does that get? Two. Two. What does two plus one equal? Three. Isn't that fantastic? So you have one and two, they're chilling out at the end. And if you put one and two here and add it to the three here, you get a whole box all by itself. Does that make sense? Sort of? Sort of. What position is this on? Middle C. Middle C. What is that on the piano, show me. Beautiful. What ten notes are you covering? F, G, A, B, C, D, B, F, G. Lovely. Read me these notes. What note is that. F. No, not F because between the dots is, between the dots is always one note, F. So that's not between the notes. That's above it. So what is that? G. G. So lovely, G. G, G, and what's this? C, D, E, E, E, F, A, A, D, A, G, D. D, good. I did that with A, B. I figured. C, D, E, D, G, C, A, G. Okay, so can you play this for me for next week? Your going to circle it?"