Translate Up & Down Notes to the Keyboard When Piano to Kids

Video Transcript

"So, you just did all that hard work to get that child to learn up and down by ear. Now you need to translate up and down to two things. You need to translate it how it goes to the piano. If I go this way, I'm moving up. If I go this way, I'm moving down and this is fun for them. They can take their arms, their sleeves, their like shirts and like run all the way up to up and all the way down to get down. Pianos are a really fun instrument because you really can't hard it. It's possible that you could in some parallel universe break the string but really your kids probably not going to be strong enough to do that or have like the right amount of force at the right moment. It's a concentrated force thing. So, it's fun to play. You need to translate that up and down through here. You also need to translate it to the paper. So, I have three cards here. One moves up, one stays the same and one moves down and even though I want to just stress that I know that these contents have already been gone over with your kids. I'm just giving you extra tips to see if you can help them understand it even better or understand it fully. They may understand it partially it just not semantic yet. So, you lay out these cards and see if they can play for you any three notes going up. I don't know any three notes. Any four notes it stays the same. How do I know there are four notes because it's says four plays, play, play, play, play. So, they will play for you four times. Now, I've had kids who can't stay on the same note four times in a row. So, it's your job to enforce that they must stay there four times in a row and then of course you have three notes going down and it is true that you want them to go down in the same spacing so that you wouldn't go tiny bit and then drum like little bit down and then lot down. It is true that you don't want that happen but it also is true that might not be the battle that you want to fight right now just get the child to move down and be able to see this card means down. So, we'll talk about translating to harder music, music that they'll play later."