For Musicians?

Question

What do you remember learning in your first music lesson

Answer 1

If you're looking for things to teach a beginner, start with staffs, cleffs and notes. Make sure to get time signatures firmly embeded, then start on note values. Dynamic levels are good to teach at first, too. Have the student play a note soft (piano), then loud (forte) then a very soft and very loud, (pianissimo and fortissimo) and then medium soft and loud (mezzo piano and forte). Make sure they understand the scale and the octave. Teach about chromatism and the chromatic scale after the major scale. A few lessons later you should work on a minor scale. Start scales with C Major, A Minor and the Chromatic scale. Do rhythms by having them hit one note four times equally, then eight times twice as fast, then any combination of those once they get that down. Make sure then understand that, even though the letters run from A to G, the middle and basest note is a C. I think the first thing I was taught was how to locate the middle C, right under the logo. A few lessons in, introduce the accidentals, flats and sharps.

Answer 2

I was about four when I had my first piano lesson so I don't really remember it, but when I had my first violin lesson (I'd already been playing in the school orchestra for a while, this was my first private lesson) I learned how to correct my hold on my bow and to keep my fingers curved on the neck of my instrument. In my first voice lesson we worked on where to take breaths and started learning a song to see how one would go about preparing a song to perform.

Answer 3

I remember learning how to sit at the piano, how to hold my hands like I was holding a ball, and how to play the first song in the book.

For my students now, I teach them to hold it, how to sit so they are balanced, and I get them started with blowing. (That usually takes a few lessons) I also play for them, so they have an idea what they should sound like.

Answer 4

I remeber it clearly!! I can see the apartment building where my first teacher lived, and me sitting at her piano as she taught me how to play "Hot Cross Buns", and how to read the notes CDE on the staff.

What a great question!!

I don't think, at that first lesson, my teacher would have ever imagined that I would eventually become a piano teacher! (I was a horrible student!! )

If you don't mind, I'd like to borrow this question and ask my "senior" students ... those high school kids that I've been teaching for years and years... I'd love to know what they remember of their first lesson :D

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing. I was too young. However music learning starts with listening not lessons.

Answer 6

how to bang on the keys for piano.
for violin, how to hold up a fake violin first.
for singing, learning how to breath big.

Answer 7

How to hold a drumstick the right way.

Answer 8

How to hold the instrument.

Answer 9

what note is what on the piano

Answer 10

do ,re ,me, fa,so.......