International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
Modern Method of Teaching Piano and its Importance in the Development of
Performance Playing Skills
Bahia Galal Al Ekhrity a *
ª Dr. ,Assistant Professor, Department of Music Education, Faculty of Specific Education – Alexandria University – Egypt
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify the modern teaching methods to learn to play the piano during the parade of
the most important of these modern methods and innovative in performance on the piano. And how to develop
the playing skills and performance overcome the difficulties of the student from beginner through them and take
advantage of them in the preparation of the graduates of the College of Education to develop their performance
and quality. The importance of this paper is that it may contribute to the development of performance playing
for students, including contents of the methods and techniques play unfamiliar.
This research is based on the use of the descriptive approach through review of the most important methods of
teaching and research sample illustrate how to take advantage of them on the piano, and to overcome the
difficulties of the student play novice and then the results.
Keywords. Teaching methods - Piano - Beginner student – Playing skills.
INTRODUCTION
The piano instrument one of the most important musical instruments, especially for its essential role in the
field of music learning in all its stages. The piano teachers relied upon the traditional methods (The special style
is that which every teacher uses for learning music art in different countries. They enriched Arts and flourished
upon their hands. They left notes / exercises and books explain in details every current) (Bayoumi, A. 1992,
p.251) in teaching it for a long period. No changes bot some simple ones took place, concerning the method and
content. Studying playing on the piano, is the which we cannot do without especially for the beginners (who
studies the piano for the first time. He/she is the first year student in the specific educational colleges at the age
of 16-18 years). It is one of the most important playing scholastic subjects which musical education syllabi
include in the colleges and specialized institutions. In the current age, different ways and several schools which
take care of finding modern methods for educating students and beginners, playing on the piano, appeared. Their
aim targeted providing easiness to the student, attracting him/her raising level standard, of performance in a
short time, and in a frequent gradual way get him to learn what we aim at without distress or hardness. By
showing these means, we find what are similar in dealing with and graduality and find which integrates each
other. This of course, is without intention on the side of the authors. This, is discovered by the way teach, hoping
for getting known of all new in the field of learning "playing skills on the piano instrument to enable the student
get to the level of "playing goodness".
Looking at Teaching Styles, we find that teacher way in acting with the educational situation and which show
his personal characteristics and in which teaching methods are reacting, so as to have this leads to the
appearances of the individual differences among the teachers themselves.(S. Amal & AH. Fouad, 1990, p.406)
All teaching methods contain advantages and disadvantages. Not every style acts in a good manner for every
student. These styles should be valued / estimated in the light of the special needs of every student. So, the
burden falls upon the teacher in using these ways, either separated intermediated, or integrates each other. The
she researcher will show some of these modern and creative methods and their roles and importance in
developing: -
John. Thompson Method, It is one of the old methods styles and whish's still going on till today. It
introduces to the student simple arrangements based upon the international melodies which were styled in an
educational-manner. J. Thompson is considered the pioneer of C middle. It is one the methods which proved its
success, in which the two hands thumbs are alternatively, used in playing the tone of C middle. He concentrated
Email address: prof.bahiagalal@gmail.com
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