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What's in a Keyboard Games lesson?

Maybe you picture sitting still on a piano bench, being told to 'find middle C'. Our lessons involve very little sitting and very little stillness.

Like all lessons in our Music Moves for Piano curriculum, Keyboard Games provides students with a rich musical environment, essential for developing audiation (the ability to think in music, the ability understand music, the ability to predict what is coming up)

Keyboard Games lessons involve:

• Exposure to songs and chants in various tonalities and meters

• Movement and body awareness 

• Active listening

• Readiness for reading notation

• Healthy piano technique

• Playing short pieces

• Creativity and Improvisation

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How a child begins piano lessons will directly impact their relationship to music and any instrument for the rest of their life. We want to give students the very best music education available. 

Extensive research about how the brain perceives and learns music provides answers to the following questions and many more:

Why can students play difficult repertoire and not be able to play "Happy Birthday" without music?

Why can many adults, after years of study, only play a few pieces that they learned in high school?

Why are so many adults unable to read unfamiliar music or accompany singers and instrumentalists?

Why do creating and improvising seem impossible to many adults who can read music?

The answer: These students/adults have not learned how to ‘audiate’ music. Audiation is essential for developing musicianship. 

At Free to Play Creative Studio our students develop lifelong musicianship skills through our audiation-centered teaching.