Piano Woolly and Tig

Hey, Tig!

# I love Woolly and Woolly loves me

# We've been together since we were wee

# We play hide and we play run

# We have plenty, plenty fun

# He's my spider cuddly toy

# He's my clever, woolly boy

# I love Woolly and Woolly loves me

# We've been together since we were wee. #

'The piano.

'When I was little, I wanted to play the piano, so Mummy took me

'for a piano lesson.'

'The piano lesson was in a big music school,

'where lots of people learned music.

'My piano teacher was Mr Tonka.

'When Mr Tonka played his piano,

'he played all the notes together, very fast.'

Now, do you want to learn to play the piano?

'"Yes," I said. So Mr Tonka showed me all the notes.'

The low note.

Well done.

-The middle note.

-This one?

-Yeah.

-And the high note.

-That one?

-Yeah, that one. Well done.

'I played all the notes together, like Mr Tonka.'

RANDOM NOTES

OK, why don't you come back next week

and we can learn about the going up notes and the going down notes.

TUNEFUL DESCENDING SCALE

We look forward to that, Mr Tonka.

-Come on, Tig.

-See you next week, bye.

-Bye.

'At my next piano lesson,

'Mr Tonka was in his tiny room, playing one of his pianos.'

How are you doing? I have written some notes on a page.

'Mr Tonka had written me some music dots.

'The music dots went up and down.'

See if we can play a scale. Now...

PLAYS SCALE

Do you want to try that?

'I played the notes up, like the dots.'

PLAYS SCALE

That's great.

'I didn't want to play the notes one by one, any more.

RANDOM CHORDS

'I played the notes all together, like Mr Tonka.

'"Next time," said Mr Tonka, "we'll give the notes names."

'When I went for my piano lesson again,

'Mr Tonka was very excited.'

Hello. Come and sit down. Look what I've been doing for you.

'He had pictures for the notes - an apple, a ball, a cat.'

See if you can play the apple note.

'"Play me that apple notes," said Mr Tonka.

'I didn't want to play the apple notes.'

RANDOM CHORDS

'I played all the notes,

-'like Mr Tonka.'

-I've got to go.

'Mr Tonka left.'

Tig, you have to listen to what Mr Tonka asks you to do.

I know how to do the piano. '"No," I said,

'"I'm playing all the notes together."

'I played some more, but the notes didn't sound quite right.'

Hey, Tig! Whee!

It might be fun playing all the notes together,

but some notes don't sound nice together.

Some notes sound better by themselves.

If you play each note by itself, you can play a tune.

# Half a pound of tuppenny rice

# Half a pound of treacle. #

When Mr Tonka plays the piano, it might look like he's playing

all the notes, but Mr Tonka plays only the notes he needs.

Mr Tonka listened to his teacher and learned what notes to play.

Go for it, Tig. Whee!

Listen to Mr Tonka and learn how to play the piano.

'"Yes," I thought, "I want to learn to play the piano

'"so I'll listen to Mr Tonka and do what he tells me."

'When Mr Tonka came back, he told me how to play a tune.

'We played the tune together.'

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

THEY BOTH PLAY TUNE

'Boing! "Argh!"

It's only a toy spider.

'I like Mr Tonka teaching me.

'I like going to my piano lessons.

'I love Woolly.'

# I love Woolly and Woolly loves me

# We've been together since we were wee

# He's my spider cuddly toy

# He's my clever, woolly boy

# I love Woolly and Woolly loves me

# We've been together since we were wee! #