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    We are looking for a good guide to playing the piano for my DD8. She can play some tunes by ear but we want her to learn to read sheet music too. I know that lessons are the ideal but we live out in the boonies so we are going to need to leverage her auto-didactical skills. Any and all advice appreciated.


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    I wonder if you can find a teacher who skypes? My son's beloved violin teacher moved to a symphony in a different state and they continue lessons via Skype. They have in-person lessons when the teacher comes to town to visit family several times a year. It's not ideal, but since my son doesn't want a career in music, it works fine. (My son tried another teacher, but my son just didn't like her teaching style, so we went to Skype.)

    Perhaps you can advertise on Craigs list in a biggish city somewhere. I just googled Skype piano lessons and there are lots of options.

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    I'd look into Skype, too.

    If you hunt around on YouTube, there are a LOT of good options there.

    Bastien's beginner all-in-one or "theory" books should help with reading music-- but there really isn't a good substitute for having a teacher help with that part of things. Does either parent play a musical instrument or read music?



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    I am a complete dunce where music is concerned - I can neither play nor read it. DW on the other hand can play almost any instrument given sufficient time to monkey with it but despite playing violin in an orchestra never learned to read sheet music and play simultaneously.

    DD seems to share DW's ear and we want to try to encourage the sheet music reading too while she is youngish. Skype sounds good - we are going to try this with Latin as it happens.


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    A poster on here named Cawdor recommended a video game called Fisher Price I can Play Piano. She later posted a video of her son playing a regular keyboard that showed he's doing good. It's out of circulation so you can only buy used on e-bay and around $100.00, so it's a gamble since you're buying used. I got mine. It's real sturdy and it works well.
    It's a keyboard. The keys are heavy, I've heard that matters. You get little cartridges with different songs on it. Mine came with four since it was used. Each cartridge has about a dozen songs. The keyboard has colored stickers on the keys. The game has levels you can select. The easiest levels have the colored bannas, or hearts or whatever traveling up a colored verticle line and you have to hit that color key when it's the right time (like guitar hero, i guess. I never played that). The third level they have the colored notes going horizontally across the screen on a sheet of music lines. By then you have played enough games that train you from color to key, then from key to colored note, then to just notes and lines. Like I said, another poster recommended it and it worked well for her son. Me and my kids don't have our results in yet, but we're working on it and it seems to me like it will work. My kid learned to read with Reading eggs so I believe in the video game teaching model.
    ETA: It plugs into the tv

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    Try the Suzuki Piano book 1 along with a guide (google?) for the notes and note names... And I second the Bastian (sp?) books for beginner piano.


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