If you're trying to learn key names yourself, have a friend randomly call out key names, and you find it and verify it. I show this to the parent, in the case of a child, and ask them to do this at home for five minutes a day, for the next week. We continue playing seek and play games, with me calling out key names and the student finding and playing it. Again, even is the student isn't sure of left and right, they know which direction they read and write, and the keyboard is lettered going in the same direction. Which key do you think is next to E, F or B? This isn't rocket science, even for a 5 year old. I've never had a student who couldn't grasp this.Īfter 5 to 10 minutes of playing Ds, Cs, and Es, we look at the group of 3 black keys. Look, if you can find a group of two black keys, the white key between them is D. Middle C is difficult, because it's not in the middle, and at this point, students do not know the grand staff, so the naming of the key wouldn't make sense to them anyway.ĭ is ultra easy to learn, and I have them search and play Ds up and down the keyboard, for several minutes. When teaching my beginning students, children or adult, I begin with D.
That question asked, my next point is that there are only eight white keys which are named, and learning the name of eight objects is a rather simple process, as they progress through the alphabet. You're asking this on a teachers' forum, and I would guess most of us are appalled that any teacher would do this, so my first question to you is, "Why?"
Are there particular ones that work better? I was thinking to use painters tape to just letter label all of them, but then I thought maybe there are more sophisticated ones commercially available.Īlso, will they ruin the keys through their stickiness? I am wondering what the best types of stickers to use for labeling piano keys to aid in learning.
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