Marie, 3.5 years

missflute wrote: More figures from last few weeks; I'm not sure how exactly to print them here, let me know if there is a clearer way!

Sorry, I missed your last post! Yes, she can play different games now. Just keep in mind that we have to build her concentration ultimately in the future.

Still having difficulty in getting Marie to concentrate on perfecting one song before moving to the next, she will concentrate on one for as long as she wants, and then want to move to other songs or games, so we have moved around between songs etc quite a lot.

The taste for improvement can be built with sections of the pieces. Get a piece and cut as minimum as 1-3 notes. Ask her to play and let her see the perfect results. When she will understand what 'no or almost no mistake is', she will be more willing to work on less material to deliver better quality.

But she is certainly developing better coordination, and has started trying LH, and is much improved in singing - she now often sings Do to Do and backwards on her own.

This is great!

26th Feb:
Hot Cross Buns RH - 6/15, 66
Listened to some other songs
27th Feb:
Farmer in his dell LH - 8/15, 44
Mulberry Bush LH - 6/13, 54
Note alphabet 47, 3 minutes
Sung Do to Do, forwards and backwards, tried some LH thumb with weight
28th Feb:
Do to Sol with correct fingers
Hot Cross Buns - RH 8/15, 24. LH 15/22, 55
new Year Tree - RH 26/33, 77
1st March:
Happy Birthday - LH 10/12, 28
2nd March:
Ode to joy - LH 14/18, 26
Fir Tree - LH 21/26, 79
3rd March:
Fir Tree - RH 34/42, 74
Ode to Joy - LH 10/18, 30

I see that she is in the stage of building hand - eye coordination. Can you upload any video on You Tube to be able to help you more?

Guess Key game 54, 34

She got more coins first time?

Happy Birthday - 4/12, 32

We have to cut the piece.

note alphabet - 63, 2:35

It seems like your baby is having good reasoning skills. Love the score. Outstanding for her age!

4th March:
RH Do to Sol with correct fingers, and backwards

Wow!

Happy Birthday - RH 13/25, 86. Hand together 24/37, 139

Hands together? Your child is amazingly focused!

5th March:
Bass staff puzzle 12, 1:38

Good!

Happy Birthday - LH 10/12, 16
Jingle Bells - LH 27/32, 32
Guess key game - 58, 55s
Fir tree - RH 34/42, 80
6th march:
sung Do to Do and backwards, with one finger
Happy brithday - hands together 26/37, 83
8th March:
happy birthday - hand together 13/37, 143
10th march:
guess key game - 50, 38s
Happy birthday - LH 12/12, 18
Jingle bells - LH 32/32, 48. RH 30/45, 56
11th march:
Guess key game - 32, 25s
Jungle bells - RH 36/45, 46. LH 23/32, 65
Hot cross buns - RH 11/15, 12
French song - RH 22/28, 42
12th march:
Jingle bells - LH 31/32, 30
Happy birthday - RH 22/25, 30

When you get less time and less mistakes, you are getting better. If the amount of notes played and time are about even, you are very close to the next level. It seems like this is the case here!

Guess key game - 33, 21s
13th march:
Happy birthday - hands together 19/37, 143

Happy birthday is not easy piece, but she is playing it! Bless her heart she is patient!

missflute wrote: I have tried doing some videos, these are not her best attempts but here is hot cross buns RH

And here is Jingle Bells RH

Missflute, the videos are set as 'private'. Please, change the setting in the YouTube. Another thought: you may just copy/paste YouTube link from the browser window here. It will show up as a nice picture.

I have also read your comments - thank you - and looked at how to cut a piece, so will start doing that to encourage her to work on improving her accuracy.
Marie enjoys singing along to the songs that she knows the words of (as you can see from jingle bells!) - I have tried to encourage singing solfege notes instead but she doesn't want to do this yet. But she loves singing the scale do to do and backwards, and can do it very well.

Just pay her twice more music 'dollars' for Solfeggio.

Thank you very much!
I finally watched the video. Here is what I noticed so far:
your daughter developed excellent hand-eye coordination. She almost isn't looking at her hands during sight-reading.
She also has excellent fingers' awareness and I can clearly see, how she is starting to manage her fingers and using correct fingering mostly.
I think, she is ready to play more using both hands.
If she plays Right hand only, ask her to sing the music notes with Solfeggio.
Overall, I am very happy with her performance! Way to go!