Scope And Sequence.Prep A (24-36 Months)

Music Appreciation: development of listening skills through puppet theater videos, interaction with Elementary music score and world class recordings. Lear to recognize certain pieces of Haydn, E. Humperdinck, P.Tchaikovsky, F.Liszt, L. Beethoven, W. Mozart, A. Rubinstein and G.Rossini

Fine motor skills development: learning to control each finger of right and left hand through interactive software games and carefully selected piano exercises. Learning to play 5 fingers exercises, Hanon #1, Chromatic scale, C Major Scale, Triads, piano pieces from Introductory and 0 levels. Pressing 1-3 keys at the same time.

Development of Eye-Focus: training eye-sight to focus on large and smaller objects. Training to shift eye-focus among lines and spaces of Grand Staff. Learning to divide eye focus between sheet music and piano keys. Training is provided with flash cards and interactive software modules.

Development of Hand-Eye Coordination: Learning to shift eye focus and press a computer key at the same time, learning to play piano keys in accordance with their position on the Grand Staff and duration.

Development of both hands coordination: building skills to play piano exercises with synchronic movements of both hands. Working on 0-1 level piano pieces using both hands. Learning to play melodies with simple shell chords. Pressins 1-3 notes at a time.

Ear Training: learning to distinguish sounds with or without pitch, interactive practicing with notes/keys of different duration, recognizing and memorizing small motifs with up to 5 notes, distingushing 2 or 3 times meters, Major scales from C, D and E (Do, Re, Mi)

Music Theory: notes sequences from Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Ti in accending and descending order, notions about rest sign, fermata, 2 and 3 times meters, Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant chords, major and minor tunes

Voice development: matching voice to pictures and pitches, singing small motifs and piano pieces with solfeggio syllables, sight-singing simple melodies from Elementary score, learning to match voice to different pitches, singing

Piano: learning piano geography with interactive modules, learning names of the piano keys, learning to press piano keys using one finger, learning to press piano keys with different fingers, sight-reading 0-1 Levels piano pieces from Elementary Grand Staff with separate hands. Learning how to perform piano pieces for parents and peers.