The Teaching Material Research Of The Piano Adventures

By contemporary American pianist, a child psychologist Randall Faber and his wife Nancy Faber, were written the Piano adventures is a very good elementary piano teaching material. Faber couples think that:“learning to play the piano is not only to the expression of personal feelings and the success of the play, the more important is to develop the children’s music creative and cognitive abilities.”The new teaching concept has been through the teaching material. A complete set of teaching material according to the degree of depth will be divided into eight grades, is divided into two parts per level, the Lesson and theory and the Technique and performance. Lesson and theory in a variety of music style as an example, shows the music theory, aural training content and creative learning, the Technique and performance through its “secret skills”, lets the student to be able to do exercises, solo music festival performance and performing various pleasant scene.This paper is divided into four parts:The first part: introduction. Main content as the research background, research status quo, as well as the methods and characteristics.The second part: the background of the Piano adventures. The music education in the United States, and the reflection of American music education in Piano adventures.The third part: teaching material analysis of the Piano adventures. Including its teaching concept, teaching material contents and teaching material characteristics.The fourth part: inspired by the Piano adventures for the Chinese children’s piano teaching enlightenment. Through my study of this teaching material, refining the advantages and characteristics, hoping to Chinese children’s piano teaching enlightenment to bring some revelation. Including comply with children’s cognitive psychology, pay attention to the cultivation of children’s creative thinking, and pay attention to chilren’s understanding of all kinds music culture.