Sometimes piano students shy away from learning “music facts” because they see them as rules they have to follow Teaching music facts in a way that is interesting to kids offers creative perspective to children in piano lessons This is important so they don’t fall into the trap of slavery to “music rules” to be “good students,” without learning to play creatively; or, so they don’t go to the other extreme and ignore learning musical facts altogetherThe musical symbol called a fermata, for example, means to pause.
It’s kind of like stopping at a traffic light In print it looks like a bird’s eye, but this analogy doesn’t really help students in piano know what to do when they see one Young students will remember that this musical symbol reminds them of a bird’s eye, but they don’t remember what to do.
Fermata is the Italian word for “Stop” When the fermata is placed over a note it means to pause or stop on that note, and then resume the normal tempoIf you think of the fermata as a musical stoplight, imagine you are traveling along in the music at a moderate to lively speed when you suddenly come to a note with a “stop light” over it that is red.
What do you do? Don’t park your care and get out! Don’t run the red light! Just wait at the intersection with the car running until the light turns green, and then resume your musical journey at your previous moderate to lively tempo The idea of a fermata is to create anticipation in the music, or a feeling that the melody is coming again, but you have to be a little patient and wait for it This creative technique adds interest to the music that kind of teases the listener’s ear.
Now it’s true that as a parent who may find red stoplights more that just a little annoying, this explanation might sound disingenuous But I guarantee it’s a creative idea that will work for your piano student.
And who knows, when your piano student becomes a driver they may view stoplights as just fermatas there to make their journey more interesting! You’ll be making the world a better place
It’s kind of like stopping at a traffic light In print it looks like a bird’s eye, but this analogy doesn’t really help students in piano know what to do when they see one Young students will remember that this musical symbol reminds them of a bird’s eye, but they don’t remember what to do.
Fermata is the Italian word for “Stop” When the fermata is placed over a note it means to pause or stop on that note, and then resume the normal tempoIf you think of the fermata as a musical stoplight, imagine you are traveling along in the music at a moderate to lively speed when you suddenly come to a note with a “stop light” over it that is red.
What do you do? Don’t park your care and get out! Don’t run the red light! Just wait at the intersection with the car running until the light turns green, and then resume your musical journey at your previous moderate to lively tempo The idea of a fermata is to create anticipation in the music, or a feeling that the melody is coming again, but you have to be a little patient and wait for it This creative technique adds interest to the music that kind of teases the listener’s ear.
Now it’s true that as a parent who may find red stoplights more that just a little annoying, this explanation might sound disingenuous But I guarantee it’s a creative idea that will work for your piano student.
And who knows, when your piano student becomes a driver they may view stoplights as just fermatas there to make their journey more interesting! You’ll be making the world a better place
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