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Home › Gentle Piano - What can be taught with Gentle Piano

Gentle Piano - What can be taught with Gentle Piano

Goal

This module teaches how to read, play and memorize music with the piano

keyboard.

Every time you play a note by pressing and holding the correct piano key,

you will get a point - a flower at the left bottom corner. Pressing a wrong

piano key marks the next note as “failed” - you will not get a point. Try to

make no mistakes and achieve the maximum score that corresponds with

the total number of notes. 

The next step is to work on your timing. Look at the score in the bottom

right corner of the screen. You are trying to score as close to 0 as possible.

A higher score here shows any delay in your timing. A perfect score of 0

means that you have played the notes exactly according to the correct

timing of the piece.

Gradually, you should change note representation from the simplest to an

actual music score, using computer keys from 1 to 6. For children younger

than age 5 or 6, it is better to use the 1st to 4th positions only. 

In position 1,2,3,4 and 5, the focus support line gives you a certain tempo

and you can't play faster than that, though you can play as slow as you wish.

Keys should be pressed just as the notes reach this line. In the right bottom

corner you see a timer showing how many seconds you are slower than the

“ideal” tempo. After you are familiar with the song you can try to reduce

these “late” seconds to a minimum. This will train the correct rhythm for

playing the song.

In the 6th position you will see the actual music score without the focus

support line, and you can play the song as fast as you wish. Here the time in

the bottom right corner represents the actual time that it takes you to

complete the piece rather than relating to your delay or tempo. The notes

to play have a reddish halo about them.

 

Monitoring your progress

We recommend that you record all music activities and scores in a special

journal for tracing the student's progress. You should include in it the

date, song name, staff position, whether playing with Right (R) hand, Left

hand (L) or both (P), your score and the timing delay score seconds.

 

Memorizing a song

In order to memorize a song, you can hide the notes you are going to play

by pressing H (hide). This can be used for notes for the left hand, right hand

or both hands. If you press the wrong key, the correct note appears to give

you a hint.

To see all notes, press V (visualize).

How to use Gentle PianoTM

1) Open Gentle PianoTM module.

2) Press computer key F (find a song) to choose and open a song.

3) Press S (song sound) to listen to the song you are going to play.

4) Begin with the simplest presentation by pressing 1 on computer keyboard.

5) Play with the right hand (press R), left hand (press L) and both hands

(press P).

6) After you are familiar with the song, use presentations 2, 3, 4, 5 and

(advanced) 6 to learn how to read and play the actual music score. For

learning to sight-read we recommend using positions 2, 4, 5 and 6 (with no

pictures/letters) to re-enforce visual recognition of the notes on the spaces

or lines.

7) Memorize the song by pressing H to hide the notes you are going to play.

You can use this option while playing left, right or both hands in any staff

representation position.

8) Select a difficult part of a song for special practice (press Ctr-Enter, play

the section and then Ctr-Backspace).

9) Learn a long song by selecting small parts and mastering them

individually.

10) Play a song with both hands memorized (PH) until you achieve the

perfect score.

11) Play a song with no computer.

12) Play a song with a metronome to improve your timing.

13) Find your song in our teaching videos to help you ‘polish’ it.

14) Put a video of you playing the song on You Tube and place a link to it in

your Progress Diary to receive individual guidance from Soft Mozart®

professionals about your performance.

 

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