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Home › Preparatory C (from 5+). Lesson 42

Preparatory C (from 5+). Lesson 42

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Music education pedagogy

How is your experience? Our training moving towards the end and in few weeks you are going to have finals for this course. Do you feel more confident? Do you see now that teaching toddlers in fact is fun and productive activity? Share your thoughts with me!


In our Pedagogy class today we are going to talk about:

Initial Stages of Attention Development with Hiner Method

We already learned that playing the piano with music notation is a complex skill. It includes the ability to see the notes and play them with both hands.

I. Right Hand, Left Hand, and the Grand Staff

The Grand Staff has two clefs.  Humans have two hands.  Treble clef is on the right, and bass clef is on the left. 

First we build the awareness about that.  We may ask a child to raise his right ("green") or left ("brown") hand. With the help of this simple exercise, students can usually memorize the names of the hands very quickly.

We  may use green and brown bracelets to help focus the student's attention on the music stave in horizontal position.
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In the future, the skill of interacting with music stave both vertically and horizontally will become useful not only in music, but also in the study of geometry, at the least.

II.

Introducing Student's Attention to the Names of Notes on Speech and Tactile Level

Each note has a name. We can pronounce the names of the notes. Notes can be touched with the fingers of the right and the left hand.
Keys have the same names as notes. Every note has its own «house» - its own key.
Image Guess Key is a module with the help of which your student can learn to see the keys one by one and study piano geography.  Picture and sound help focus visual attention on each key.

With the help of the Guess Key Module you can measure the child’s progress with precise numbers. You can pause the game by pressing F1 key to record the result.  You can track your child’s progress by the increase in the number of points.

III.

Keys and notes are arranged in particular orders. This is why we learn to memorize music notes sequences.

This exercise will assist the visual focus in locating a particular key or note in a row more quickly.

Music notes sequences are better perceived first by ear (onomatopoeic skill) with the help of a special song in a form of a rhyme. With the song as a framework, the student begins to put together card rows.

This type of work gradually develops into the ImageNote Alphabet game, which requires more attention and with constant acceleration teaches the student to put together most common musical sequences.

With the Note Alphabet Module it is also possible to measure the student’s progress in locating the notes and piano keys on the musical notes sequences. You can pause the module after some time by pressing F1 key to write down the results.  You can track your student’s progress by the increase in the number of points.

Young beginners can recite entire circle of ImageNote Alphabet after learning how to speak.

Later on, attention transforms its knowledge of Note Alphabet to the study of scales, intervals, triads, and chords in music theory, harmony, and polyphony. 

 

Piano technique and exercises

1. We improve the game of the scale of Ganon's exercise No. 1 with separate and two hands with a metronome. We play at an average pace. We try to play even sounds, remember the exercises of O.M. Egorova and watch your hand and elbows.

2. If possible, repeat the exercises of the previous lessons.

 

Music theory and ear training

Acquaintance with the first letter from the "Kingdom of Tune"

We study topics:

  1. The concepts of Tonic Subdominant and Dominant
  2. IV step. The Subdominant Key - Skill in C Major
  3. Glissando - the skill of the game

Link to all letters:

An example of working with the first letter from the "State of Lad":

 

Piano performance and music sight-reading

 

                                                                                                             

If your child is growing faster or slower than our plans suggest, we encourage you to contact us at admin@softmozart.com to start learning with our certified professionals.

 1. ImageGentle Piano®- Reading from a sheet. First Steps: Fingerobics #6

 Play R, L и P на 2, 4, 5, 6

 2. ImageGentle Piano®- A piece to perform - Альбом Boogie 1 - "Cat Boogie"

We continue to work on memorizing the play.

Improving performance with separate and two hands with the help of TEACHING VIDEOS:

With metronome:

Without metronome:

 

3. ImageGentle Piano®- New piece to perform - Album Favorite Classic 1 - Ode to Joy: R и L

 

Music appreciation

TEASER:  ImageGentle Piano® - more complex version "Ode to Joy" in Album Favorite Classic 1 - Ode to Joy: R, L

And a lighter one in Introductory Songs 0. Played with two hands.

We find other interpretations of the work on the Internet and listen - we look.

Our find:

 

 

 

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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