Preparatory A (from 2+). Lesson 37

How is your lessons? Are you getting more and more confident that you absolutely CAN teach your toddler music and piano at home?

In our Pedagogy class today I am going to teach you how to play triads and how to teach this wonderful and very beneficial exercise.

Triads teach the coordination of three fingers of the hand at the same time. At first this is very hard, and kids confuse the first, third, and fifth fingers with the second and fourth. By separating the fingers into ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ along the code of the keys, I was able to bring my kids’ attention to the difference between these two groups of fingers. At first, when the exercise is played by one hand at a time, the children watch to make sure that the ‘unwanted guests (2 and 4)’ don’t show up while playing with the group of 1, 3 and 5. In order to master the coordination of these fingers, they play the triads many times.

Please, watch this video and practice to play the triads by yourself first:

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