It's easier to do this when they have a longer attention span. Lynn Thieban, a longtime piano teacher in West Des Moines, is also concerned about starting music lesson for children too soon. I don't want everyone thinking the can or should do this. Suzuki - a program from Japan that stresses learning instruments such as piano by ear and through memory. Pace - a program from New York, which stresses learning to improvise, compose and perform many styles of music through partner and group lessons.
Students use digital keyboards.
Kindermusik - a program from Germany that stresses a range of music and movement activities to introduce musical concepts to groups of young children. The way these programs teach children looks very little like the piano lessons many adults remember from childhood. Young students in particular may spend less time at the piano. They may learn in a group rather than private lesson. I have converted some of the problem pages to text only for printing.