Piano Report - July 2017

Jamie has had a successful year learning the piano and is starting to show a natural ability for the subject.  I can tell he loves playing the piano and attending his lessons.  It is wonderful to have such a motivated pupil with such an eagerness and enthusiasm for music and learning new things.  He is completely focused on the task in hand and will always ask is he doesn't understand anything.  He is a pleasure to teach and I have seen great improvement over the last few months. He is enjoying the prep test pieces and he will hopefully be ready to sit this exam soon. 

So far he has learnt the first 5 notes in his right and left hand and C D and E in the left hand. He has learnt a little about rhythm and knows the note values of 1, 2, 3 and 4 and also quavers, which are half count notes.  He has an excellent sense of rhythm.  He has also learned about tied notes, repeat marks and time signatures of 3/4 and 4/4.  

Areas for improvement - Jamie needs to keep his fingers close to the keys at all times as they do tend to wander and then he plays the wrong notes.

During the summer holidays he should revisit everything he has been taught so far. The note recognition app called 'flashnotederby' is a good learning aid for him, giving him the incentive to win and progress to the next levels. This is available from the app store for ipad.

I hope Jamie will continue with his piano lessons from September and the coming year will hopefully see him continue developing skills and techniques and progressing on to take his first piano exam this Autumn.  A very pleasing report.