Playing Tip for Toddler Piano Lesson – Don’t Measure the Music, Just Pour It Out

Does your young child take piano lessons or does your piano student stop at every bar line of music? Would you like to see them play their music without these unnecessary interruptions? Here’s a simple way to help your child break the habit of stopping or pausing on bar lines.

Here’s a demo you can give your child, even if they don’t play the piano, that will explain how music should be played. Remember that when your child sees this demonstration, he will stop stopping at the barlines. So don’t worry or scold your child or criticize the way he plays. Just run this demo and you’ll get it.

You will need a large pitcher of water, several small Dixie cups, and a kitchen sink. For watering from pitcher to Dixie cup. Then stop and put the cup down and fill another Dixie cup. Then stop and grab another Dixie cup and fill it up. Do this four or five more times. Then ask your child in piano lessons to imagine that the water in the pitcher is a song of music that he is playing. To pour the entire song into Dixie cups, you would have to stop pouring the water when each glass is full and leave it and pick up another glass to fill, etc., until the entire pitcher is empty or the song has finished. finalized. If you imagine that each bar line and each new bar is another Dixie cup to pour your song into, you’ll have to stop at each bar to fill another cup. But we don’t pour music into Dixie glasses, do we? So we don’t need to pause at the barlines.

Now pour all the Dixie cups of water into the pitcher and show your student how to pour the music when playing. Lift the carafe up and gently to remove all the water until the carafe is empty. Take your student home back to the piano to listen to her song and as your child plays, explain that she doesn’t have to pause at the bar lines or each measure like Dixie cups. Just let the music you’re playing roll past the bar lines until you reach the end of the song and all the music on the page has been dumped.

Try this at home and I guarantee your child will flow through your music and remember the lesson on pouring the musical jug of water so the music flows beyond the bar lines.