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About Anybody Can Play Studies have confirmed that piano lessons enhance your child's brain development. For nearly three decades Anybody Can Play has sought to make easy-to-use, enjoyable piano lessons available and affordable for all children (and adults) who wish to learn to play the piano.
The original Anybody Can Play curriculum was built in a studio environment with children of all ages and abilities. It was then successfully expanded through a nation-wide pre-school program with a major piano company in the late 80's and used with tens of thousands of children. To address the increasing awareness of the importance of teaching the very young child and to reach many more of them, Anybody Can Play has developed the Worksheet Piano Lesson Program which consists of daily sheets for children that methodically teach them how to play the piano. Each sheet takes only minutes to complete. After the coloring, cutting, tracing, songs and games are done in a group setting, the children are able to independently "practice" what they have learned on a piano or keyboard. The children love their worksheets and eagerly look forward to their piano lessons and their independent time at the piano or keyboard. In addition to the worksheet lessons, Anybody Can Play has developed the "sprinkling" format - sprinkling little bits of information multiple times during the day. This format closely parallels language development and is incredibly easy and fun to use to teachers or parents. Both formats of these piano/keyboard lessons can be used by teachers and parents with no piano background as well as by piano teachers. Karla Hastings, the author of the Anybody Can Play Program, is a conservatory trained pianist with a summa cum laude degree who gave her musical debut at the age of three. In addition to the piano she plays several other instruments.Mrs. Hastings has enjoyed the benefits of early musical training herself and continues her efforts to give these same gifts to as many children as possible. She introduced her first local lesson program in the daycare setting in the 1970's before going national with her program in the 80's. Mrs. Hastings and her husband have studied many foreign languages and this has helped her teach children who can speak but not yet read. She truly teaches the piano as another beautiful language. Maria Montessori wrote years ago of the "language window" which opens wide at age 2, then slowly closes until it is shut at age 10. Now this is referred to as "the Window of Opportunity" - a time when vast learning can and does take place. When a young child is taught that playing the piano is important and enjoyable, that attitude (along with everything else learned during this critical pre-reading period) remains for life. Along with all the other benefits of learning to play the piano (coordination, confidence, enhanced spatial reasoning, etc.) the process of conscious learning is transferred to other learning as well. With these simple little daily piano lessons we are given the opportunity to change the lives of children. The Hastings have five children, two of whom are piano teachers. Many of Mrs. Hastings' students have pursued careers in music as well. TO CONTACT US: HOME
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