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Home › Preparatory B (from 3 to 5). Lesson 42

Preparatory B (from 3 to 5). Lesson 42

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Pedagogy

DEVELOPING CHILD'S MEMORY

If you never used a letter H in your Gentle Piano before, it is about time to start using it. Hot key 'H' stands for the word 'hide'. You can hide music notes of a segment or entire piece, separate or both hands.

Psychologists say that the visual memory “catches” things more quickly, but the auditory memory holds on to them longer.

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What happens if a student makes mistakes during a traditional lesson? The teacher constantly stops him, points out his mistakes and shows him how to fix them. This is fine if the mistakes aren’t ones of coordination. But if the muscles don’t cooperate, demands and appeals won’t help. In fact, this makes things worse – it wastes more time.

A computer doesn’t explain – it makes the student work. Computer graphics distinctly point out all mistakes. Seeing the same mistake over and over on the monitor, the beginner quickly understands what it is that isn’t right. Right there, he tries to play the right way and repeats his attempts until the skill is enforced. Until this is done, the computer won’t let him “pass.”

 

During this time, the ears frequently listen to the right way to play, memorize it, and become a support for the performer. And the vision flawlessly ties the sounds to the music text at the same time.

The notes first appear as flower buds, which open up in accordance to their duration. If the key is released early, the blooming of the flower stops. A “dwarf” appears in its place and disappointingly waves his arms. He helps to indicate the mistake for a fraction of a second. These methods don’t only teach the student to play the right lengths. The program controls the correctness of the hands and fingers in the same way.

 

And even the most correct memorization of songs. Ordinary memorization of music is at times agonizing: it is very hard to check yourself, and the teacher can rarely help. In Soft Mozart, with the help of graphics, the student can learn a piece with ideal precision. For example, if the text is played correctly, it is counted in points, and if not, a bright hint appears and the points aren’t counted. Moreover, the text of one or both hands can be hidden from view, and appears only in the occasion of a mistake.

If before the music memory was expected to develop spontaneously, then with the aid of the computer, your child sees exactly how well he memorized the piece and how to make the performance ideal.

Now let’s return to the educator that tries with his last strength to express to the student where he went wrong. Does any development of skills ever occur here? Fundamentally, only one: the student learns to get these mistakes past the ears without detection. Graphic interaction beats “live interaction” by a mile!

The objective computer has a mightier arsenal of facilities. In its single-mindedness, it creates precise communications through your child's sight, hearing, muscles, and voice – separately and together. A teacher simply isn’t in the physical condition to use all of these faculties simultaneously.

 

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Fine motor skills and coordination development

Piano Hand Position Exercises by Olga Egorova: 'Flew In - Flew Away'

This exercise helps beginners to master the width of the keyboard and feel the work of the muscles from the shoulder to the wrist, with the correct (not too near or distant) position at the instrument. The exercise was prepared by Olga Egorova, a certified teacher in Moscow (Russia)

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Music theory and ear training

Image Treble Staff Puzzle® - keep working on the module.

Use the same time frame to see how many points increase you have each practice.

Sample video:

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Piano performance

 

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.

ImageGentle Piano®

1. "Little dog gone"  from the  Nursery 1 Album

Play the piece on R3, L3 and P3. Sing the right hand solfeggio.

2. Sight-reading: ТEASER - Waltz from "Serenade for String Orchestra" by Tchaikovsky. R1, L1 and P1

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Music appreciation

Waltz from "Serenade for String Orchestra" by Tchaikovsky.

Listen to the masterpiece interpretation:

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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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