Instead of continuing to teach as piano teachers were taught, now it is possible for them to explore new ways of teaching that will inspire both their students and themselves. This study focuses on how Gordon's music learning theory can be employed in private piano instruction. It provides sample piano lesson plans demonstrating an approach to applying learning sequence activities to private piano instruction with actual piano pieces. These piano lesson plans are appropriate for five- to six-year-old children who have already passed through tonal and rhythm music babble stages. The lessons begin with five minutes of learning sequence activities that form the foundation for learning how to audiate and perform music literature in performance activities. In learning sequence activities, tonal patterns and rhythm patterns are taught separately. Children are encouraged to experience various tonalities, key alities, tempos and meters. The lesson plans put emphasis on the development of audiation and executive skills in conjunction with rote learning, singing, movement, and improvisation. The introduction of notation is delayed until children develop an executive audiation vocabulary of tonal and rhythm patterns. As a result, children are motivated to develop audiation skills and play the piano with enjoyment and good musicianship.