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What age is appropriate to use the Musicolor Method?

Andrew Ingkavet — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The Musicolor Method works well with beginning children. I have personally used it with 3 year olds to 8 years old to even 12 year olds.The difference is that if younger, I go slower.

The songs are exercises in disguise and you can move rapidly through them if they are focusing on one song a week. In my school, all of our teachers...

What other method books do you recommend to teach traditional note reading?

Andrew Ingkavet — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

We have used so many through the years: Alfred, Bastien, Music Tree, John Thompson, John Schaum and Faber & Faber. Lately, we've been liking the Faber Piano Adventures as the songs are more fun and seem to be gradated better.

These books are introduced after the student is already playing and comfortable in Phase 3 or 4 of Musicolor Notation. And,...

How to transition to reading on the staff? - And what materials do I use?

Andrew Ingkavet — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

We introduce elements of the staff and note reading in activities and games away from the piano, usually in parallel with them learning to play using Musicolor Notation. There’s many games and activities we use with printed cards.

There are six phases of Musicolor Notation. The first is what you have in Volume 1 of Piano For Kids. Volume 2 is...

How Do I Start Teaching Musicolor Method? - As a professional private music teacher

Andrew Ingkavet — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:25:00 +0000

We have comprehensive training and licensing programs.

Please book a meeting with our director here.

You can get a good overview of our program by purchasing our first book, Piano For Kids in our store.

Can I just teach using the existing songbooks? - What else is in the training and certification?

Andrew Ingkavet — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Our current songbook series, Piano For Kids Volumes 1 through 5 (and coming 6) are just the tip of the iceberg.

Because our approach is so radically different than traditional music education methods, we require teachers to go through our training, certification and licensing program.

Without this understanding, teachers will likely confuse or deter students.

And because we fully support our teachers,...

Where can I find your songbooks? - Piano For Kids

Andrew Ingkavet — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The Piano For Kids songbooks are available in our store as well as on Amazon worldwide.

Where can I find Volume 6 of Piano For Kids?

Andrew Ingkavet — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:44:23 +0000

Volume 5 is available now and has Bonus Videos for each and every song. You can follow the QR code inside the book to get the videos.

Volume 6 of Piano For Kids has been delayed by design issues as well as copyright issues.

How I Created Musicolor Method - And why this works

Andrew Ingkavet — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:07:00 +0000

This blog post goes into good detail about my thinking process and how the use of Design Thinking influenced it.

https://www.musicolormethod.com/blog/how-i-developed-the-musicolor-method

Also, this interview by the Piano Pod gives a lot of background.

https://www.musicolormethod.com/blog/interview-with-andrew-ingkavet-of-musicolor-method-the-piano-pod

How To Set Up The Colors On The Keys - Where to put the colors

Andrew Ingkavet — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

You can download and print the PDF of the Musicolor Key Guide and place behind the keys of the piano. Or, you can label the keys using stickers, or masking tape colored with crayons.

Notice that the black keys come in groupings of 2 and 3. The middle most group of 2 is where you want to place...