Preparatory C (from 5+). Lesson 14
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How to Help Your Child to Embrace Mistakes With Hiner Method
Today we are going to talk about one of our main characters - Mister Oops!
Do you remember what it was like to sit in class and get picked on when you weren’t sure you knew the answer?
Do you remember the fear?
At some point, did that fear turn into a fear of failure?
How has that fear served you? Did it really prepare you for life?
Probably not. . .
Life isn’t about getting the right answers. Life is about making mistakes and learning from them.
You’d never know that from the big red checks on the papers you brought home from school, would you?
One of the goals of Soft Mozart is to get students to embrace their mistakes and learn from them. If we don’t do that, they will quit trying.
Mr. Oops is our resident Silent Teacher.
He appears when the student has held a note not long enough. He carts baskets of notes across the page. He is not something to be feared but a friend to embrace.
He is present enough to get the student’s attention.
The student does all the work of getting back on track – no one tells them what to do.
They figure it out for themselves. Those lessons are remembered.
No big red marks. No looks of disappointment. No deep sighs of frustration.
The student’s confidence soars.
Mistakes become the path of learning.
Not just in music, but in life.
That’s sort of the point. Isn’t it?
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1. We continue to work on Hanon's exercise No. 1:
Learning to play the left hand with the help of the program 
Gentle Piano®
Execution example:
2. Exercises for setting hands O.M. Egorova "Steps with fingers" - repetition.
3. Repeat all previous exercises.
Fruit Lines® - We continue to work on the module. We stick to the same playing time and record the result.
1. Gentle Piano®- Reading from a sheet. Christmas Carols: Oh, Christmas Tree! - play with single and two hands - and - or sing in any presentation convenient for you.
Video example:
2. Gentle Piano®- Christmas Carols: A play to be performed.
Jolly Old Saint Nickolas:
R1, R3, P1, P3, L1, L3, P1, P3
3. We play all the previous pieces with and without a computer, with and without instructional videos. We record Jingle Bells and the Little Christmas Tree on video, if we have not done this before.
1. TEASER - Gentle Piano®
Nutcracker - Waltz of Flowers - play R, L and P
1. Theater of Music Theory. "Heart of Music" part 2.
Watch the new video of this story:
2. Find "Waltz of the Flowers" in the video story "Heart of Music" 2
3. Continue listening to the orchestral performance of the Waltz of the Flowers.
4. Continue to find and listen to other interpretations of the work on the Internet
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Sincerely Yours,
Hellene Hiner
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