Every piano teacher laying the foundation of teaching young beginners at the piano is tasked with the very important responsiblity of teaching students how to read music notes. A non-music person always marvel at how a music person can decipher the 'tow gays' (bean sprouts) ala music notation on the printed page and out of the musical instrument, produce such heavenly music. Little do they know that the reading of music notation entails a process of:
1. Note names and pitch recognition
2. Rhythm notation and execution
3. Eye-to-Hand execution of music notation into playing an instrument
That is a lot to process from symbol to sound. In the subsequent blog postings, l will be examining this mysterious process of learning to read Music. Every serious piano teacher who is serious about creating music literate students, stay tuned to this blog for more.
Dorothy Chia is a piano teacher and author of 'Piano Pedagogy - The Questions', 'Piano Pedagogy - The Answers', Theory Explorer for the Young Musician, books 1 and 2, available at Kinokuniya, MPH, Yamaha, Gramercy, Renner, Music Bookroom and Chiu Piano.
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