![]() It’s essential to memorize the letter names of all of the piano keys, eventually. Strong memorization skills are part of a successful piano career. Over the years, however, the non-academic reality of teaching students of all ages and meeting their challenges has set in. As a young piano teacher, I was afraid that labeling piano keys would handicap my students in a similar way. It would take me forever to learn a piece of music, because the labeling caused me to focus on individual notes instead of larger chunks of music, like chords. And I had previously spent years teaching myself music on the piano, labeling notes on the page with their letter names. Having come from a high-pressure, formal music college, at the beginning of my teaching career I disliked the idea of any labeling for any age, either on the keys or in the sheet music.
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