As an alternative, you could buy ordinary white circular labels and colour them in yourself with felt-tipped pens (ensuring that the ink is suitable for the label and won’t come off when the keys are played). In the UK, I find these coloured spine labels work well, but I can’t find an equivalent link in the US Amazon store. In order that you can follow the printed music we’ve prepared, you should ensure that you get a pack of stickers with at least one of the each of the following colours in: In time, if your child shows interest and progress, you could introduce a more elaborate system in order that he or she can play more advanced melodies.Īpart from a keyboard or piano with at least one octave (that comprises of eight white notes in succession, plus five interspersed black notes) you only need one other piece of kit in order to set up: adhesive labels. This guide offers a basic way to label a portion of the keyboard (one octave – that’s eight white notes) and then encourage your child to play simple tunes by recognising and matching colours.
If you are keen to teach your toddler or young child - now happily sitting in front of their new keyboard - some simple tunes, read on. Our guide on how to label and write notes on the piano keyboard is great for older children and adults who don’t yet wish to learn traditional musical notation, but it may still be too complicated for much younger children.
