| Kids are great candidates to learn piano with easy | | | | representations in written material, learning to play the |
| beginner piano lessons. Besides being the most | | | | piano presents much the same challenges. Do you |
| impressionable age that they will ever be, kids are just | | | | know how to represent a c-sharp half-diminished |
| like sponges, soaking-up nearly anything they are | | | | chord across both base and treble clefs? How about |
| exposed to. | | | | a quick rondo in 6/8 time? You will need to be familiar |
| As proof they are able to learn whatever is thrown at | | | | with both of these and more if you want to know |
| them, consider their ability to learn what is probably one | | | | what you are doing on piano. |
| of the most difficult things in the world: Chinese. Few | | | | Easy beginner piano lessons are intelligently designed |
| who have ever tried to learn Chinese would disagree | | | | protocols that should begin by teaching the student |
| that it is substantially more difficult than learning how to | | | | how to play the C-Major scale up and down the white |
| play piano. | | | | notes with both hands. Once mastered, the student |
| Even for adults literate in several languages, it is simply | | | | then begins to progress to the other major and |
| unreasonably hard to learn enough characters to | | | | eventually, minor scales utilizing similar fingering. This is |
| become functionally literate in Chinese. In comparison | | | | the basis for learning to play simple patterns with both |
| to English, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Hindi, or any other | | | | hands from written music. Learning to read from sheet |
| sane, "normal" language that requires at most a few | | | | music, the student will start with simple quarter notes |
| dozen symbols to write anything in the language, | | | | and rests and work up to eighth notes, sixteenth notes, |
| Chinese is incredibly hard to learn. | | | | and rhythms based on syncopation. When these steps |
| In John DeFrancis' book, The Chinese Language: Fact | | | | are followed in an orderly and progressive manor, |
| and Fantasy, he writes that to read and write relatively | | | | learning to play nearly anything will eventually follow |
| normally requires learning three thousand characters | | | | over time with practice. The younger the student is |
| which takes approximately eight years to learn. This is | | | | when beginning to learn these basics, the easier he or |
| roughly twice the time usually estimated to learn a | | | | she will find the transition to more complicated works. |
| language such as French or Italian. What this suggests | | | | Kids don't know about barriers to learning that so |
| is that the Chinese pictograph system is harder to | | | | many adults have developed, from myopia to paranoia. |
| learn, in absolute terms, than any alphabetic writing | | | | They aren't afraid to dive into new things and try them |
| system, and considerably harder than one would | | | | on for size, like a bizarrely colored pant suit. they just |
| experience with easy beginner piano lessons. | | | | do it and go from there. They haven't yet learned to |
| So, although Chinese kids, whose minds are at their | | | | hate new things or large undertakings. The term "baby |
| peak absorptive power, have more trouble with | | | | steps" naturally describes the technique necessary to |
| Chinese characters than their little counterparts in other | | | | learn any complicated task, which is what is absolutely |
| countries have with their respective scripts, they DO | | | | natural to children. |
| learn it. And, this is what also makes them perfect little | | | | There is a reason that nearly any school age child you |
| piano-learning machines. | | | | meet can run rings around you with regards to a |
| Just like a foreign language with its 'Greek' spellings, | | | | computer. And, it isn't just because they learn about it |
| pronunciations, grammar, idioms, syntax, and | | | | at school. |