differentiate between ear training and aural training

And although it has always been possible to make learning fun, and create games out of practice and theory, this would have required a lot of imagination, time and effort. And, as I write about here, so many adults today tell me that they wish they had kept with the piano into later life.īut (nearly) 40 years ago teachers were limited in their options of teaching materials and other resources – they either had to rely on tutor books or create their own resources, which would have been laborious and manual. But I remember so many of my school-friends starting the piano and giving up months or years later. I also had great support at home, particularly from my father who is also a pianist. As a young child I had a wonderful teacher and I was lucky that music came relatively naturally to me. Remembering back to my own piano education made me realise quite how fortunate I am to be teaching today.

Looking through the book I saw it had been modernised to some degree but still contained the same songs I remember learning, together with some of the same illustrations! This had been my first piano book which I used when I graduated from sitting on the piano stool with my father and playing a few rudimentary tunes, to ‘proper, big-girl’ piano lessons (at the age of 4). I found a copy of John Thompson’s ‘Teaching Little Fingers to Play – A Book for the Earliest Beginner’ – revised and updated many times. Honest.īrowsing in Chappell’s the other day I found myself transported back in time by nearly 40 years.

Differentiate between ear training and aural training