Acoustic Music Books Moro und Lilli 1

The special trademark of the new guitar school "Moro und Lilli" by Gerhard Koch-Darkow is its child-friendly concept throughout.

This begins with the large sheet music, the clear presentation of the learning material and the many appealing illustrations by graphic artist Anja Rheims. The choice of leading characters is also oriented towards the child's psyche. Children love animals and easily identify with the likeable monkey Moro, who - crucial for playing the guitar - is equipped with fingers. His partner, the giraffe Lilli, in turn has a physique reminiscent of a guitar.

Children like to learn and the better they learn, the more the learning is playful and takes place through different senses. That is why the guitar students in "Moro and Lilli" first explore their instrument and its sound possibilities in a very practical way and set a little sound story to music, even before they adopt the "classical" sitting posture. That is why each new string to be learned on the guitar is linked to the graphic of an animal, that is why the guitar pupils are allowed to draw the guitar, enter notes in the school, answer little questions and riddles, solve tasks or play "memory" with the note laying cards and "compose" little pieces.

In small learning steps and lessons covered in detail, the students receive a solid guitaristic education. The intensive learning of thumb playing, for example, consolidates the movement sequences, which is important because children's fine motor skills are not yet so well developed. On the other hand, the slow progression also enables group lessons for pupils with different motor skills and learning speeds.

Elementary musical knowledge (notes, note values and names, treble clef, time signature and time signature, chords, chord symbols, etc.) is learned and deepened in a playful way through the use of the note-playing game and through task and puzzle pages.

And the child's willingness to perform is encouraged in a humorous way: Three monkey faces with missing mouths watch over each play. After the prelude, the teacher decides how many mouths the pupil may draw in: three laughing monkeys = very good! - In this way, the pupil is positively reinforced and his self-confidence is developed as well as his justified pride in his own performance.