Preparatory B (from 3 to 5). Lesson 25
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How are you doing? Do you sometimes feel tired, overwhelmed, burned out? This is exactly how toddlers may feel too. What triggers our frustration?
Our Pedagogy today:
What is FUN repetition and what is cramming? I think once and for all you have to understand the difference. It will help you to apply this understanding to all other academic activities with your child.
So, here we go:
Attention does not like inefficient projects. With each failure, the energy of attention decreases until it is completely depleted. Depletion of attention leads to frustration.
Cramming is an aggressive intervention into organic development of the energy of attention in order to achieve short-term results dictated by outside conventions.
Forcing your child to mindlessly copy achievements of another person (even you!), leveling his own progress, is as detrimental as forced blooming.
Cramming impedes natural development of the toddler's cognitive musical functions as well as weakens him physically (tense muscles) and emotionally (dependency, lack of confidence in his abilities, apathy, unwillingness to improve, low self-esteem, lack of motivation).
In order to avoid cramming, you as a parent and a teacher must respect your baby’s imperfections. It is necessary to understand that the child does not have to fit the mold. It is the your duty to develop his unique talents in the most optimal way from zero.
Reality is such that for some time your child will not play with a perfect hand, use ideal finger positioning or be able to directly control the touch quality of piano keys. All these skills as well as many others are objectively superstructural and may only become relevant once the energy of attention is freed up from solving physical problems.
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1. Continue to master playing of the learned exercises: "Five Fingers", "Spookie Wind", "Chromatic Scale", "Hanon"
2. Make sure to record the process on the video or make pictures for your progress diary.
3. Learn to press 3 keys at the same time - they called "triads". We call this exercise "Three Sisters - Three Brothers" or Triads. We play it from the keys DO
If DO is blue, then we build a triad on all the "blue" keys - Do-Mi-Sol and sing a song about boys.
If DO is red, then we build triads on all the "red" keys and sing a song about girls.
Here is a video how to play triads:
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Guess Key® - The final stage of work on the module. When done correctly, many children develop perfect pitch.
Be sure to share your results in the progress diary and leave a link to the video.
Here's a great result one of our students got:
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If your child is developing faster or slower than our plans suggest, we recommend writing to us at admin@softmozart.com to start working with our certified specialists.
Gentle Piano®
1. Favorite Classic 1 - Musette: learning to play with minimal mistakes and time lag
2. Development of hearing and voice. Nursery Songs Primer: Mulberry Bush - play R1, L1 and P1 and sing solfeggio:
Example of playing and singing the right hand:
Left hand:
Both hands:
3. Music Sight-Reading. ТEASER the piece "Girl with Flax Hair" by Debussy.
Download LMZ file and add to your library from this link.
Play R1, L1
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"Girl with Flax Hair" by Debussy.
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Visit our Soft Mozart forum and start your progress diary here. Use the current year section. This is the place for you to ask questions and share your experiences.
At least 2 photos and 1-2 videos of the listed activities will count towards your child's credits for the graduation DIPLOMA. Please upload the video to You Tube, copy the address from the BROWSER window and paste it into your Progress Diary. Do not forget to indicate the year and type of work in the description of your Soft Mozart Academy photo / video.
Sincerely Yours,
Hellene Hiner
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