Your Questions Answered

Do your classes follow a specific curriculum or lesson structure?
Yes, All of our Forte Courses an accompanied by high quality course material developed by early childhood specialist, movement specialists and musicians. Each course follows are series of lesson plans that are designed to teach children the fundamental aspects of music. 

For our Private Students we follow a structure Goal Setting and Customised Lesson Planning approach to ensure the student’s musical development targets are achieved.

​​Goals and Objectives
Jungle Music and Music is Fun! 
For our Jungle Music and Music is Fun Classes, it’s all about teaching the foundations of music. Through a diverse range of music and games, we introduce:

• Pitch – High and Low sounds
• Beat – Developing the feel for the steady pulse that runs through all music.
• Tempo – Fast and Slow
• Timbre – Sound texture, various types of sounds, e.g. wooden sounds of sticks, or the jingle of metal sounds.
• Form – The structure and patterns that exist within music
• Rhythm – The sequence and patterns that include sounds and silence
• Metre – Waltz, march, skipping
• Dynamics – Soft and loud

Piano Classes we add: 

• Reading - notes and rhythm
• Aural skills - by ear recognition of notes and phrases. This essential musical skill is often overlooked especially in private lessons where it is difficult to teach on a one to one basis. Music is a aural art and a well trained ear is essential to becoming a competent musician.
• Keyboard Harmony - your child will learn to play chords that form the underlying basis or harmony of music. Chord playing assist in developing skills such as transposition, composition, improvisation and playing by memory.
• Pattern recognition - music is built using patterns. Your child is taught to recognise musical patterns and this aids in memorisation. 
• Transposing - is playing known pieces in other keys or positions on the piano. From the early stages your child will transpose.
• Playing the music rather than only what is exactly written on the page. We encourage our students to play the music not the just the notes. eg if the piece is jazzy then we play it with the rhythms of the jazzy style. In the beginning this concept is as simple as what we play with the right hand we play with the left hand even though it is not written out!
• Theory - recognition and writing of musical notes and symbols
• Ensemble playing
• Performance opportunities

For our private lessons we: 
For our Private Lessons we have

• Learning to play the instrument, not just learning to play songs.
• Aural skills - by ear recognition of notes and phrases. 
• Reading - notes and rhythm
• Pattern recognition - music is built using patterns. Your child is taught to recognise musical patterns and this aids in memorisation. 
• Theory - recognition and writing of musical notes and symbols
• Ensemble playing
• Performance opportunities

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 Forte School of Music Weald of Kent,
Pattenden Lane,
​Marden, Kent
​TN12 9QJ
​[email protected] 
​​01622 910010 ​