3 ‘Surefire Ways’ To Make Your Child Want To Practice The Piano

Have you ever known a kid that has wanted to practice the piano?

I don’t think so. 

I myself, simply hated to practice the piano when I was a kid and even as a teenager. 

So, when I started teaching kids to play the piano, I was always on the look out for how to make this horrible (as seen through the eyes of the child) exercise more palatable. 

It took me a long time, but eventually I was able to nail down the exact steps and in this blog post, I am going to give you the exact formula. 

They are not crazy steps, they are very easy and can be implemented by you starting today. 

Are you ready?

Then let’s get started. 

It’s OK To Make Mistakes

Yes, the first thing to do is to annihilate the shame of making mistakes. 

How do you do that?

Have a chat with your child, explain to her how making mistakes and learning from those mistakes is what helps us grow and learn. 

We have never learned anything from being perfect. It is the mistakes that we make that teach us. 

So when we make mistakes the main thing to do is not to give up. 

Just because we make mistakes doesn’t mean that we are failures, it is when we give up and quit that we become failures. 

Therefore, you have to be your child’s cheerleader and talk her through her mistakes, be compassionate tell her that making mistakes is good, it will help her to improve. 

Stop Short

Yes, this is very important. 

You should know your child’s attention span, is it 20 minutes or 30 minutes? With very young kids I would venture to say it cannot be more than 10 minutes. 

So you have to ensure that practice time is appropriately short. 

If your child’s attention span for piano practice is 20 minutes, ensure that practice is done in 15 minutes. 

How do you do that?

Well instead of trying to do everything in a given time frame, pick one single area to work and do that, only. 

Take It In Bite Sized Pieces

This is a continuation of what I said above. 

Instead of trying to play an entire sheet of music, just learn to play one single bar line. 

That’s it. 

Easy enough? So for the entire duration of the practice, simply work on that bar line only or even less. 

That’s it. Before you know it your child would have mastered it and will be more than enthusiastic to move to the next one. 

So what do you think?

Are these tips easy to implement? Do you think they will work? There is only one way to know. Implement them and let me know. 

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