Progress of Mel02 -- 4.5 year old (4th week)

Well done, Melody! She is great!
In my opinion she has a very good hands and perfect motor skills. Lets wait what Hellene will say about it!
Excellent progress!!!

Dear Mel02,
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I am impressed with your daughter first steps! She has excellent hands and great fine motor skills.
Are you teaching to play exercises? Hanon, Chromatic scale, Chords, C Major? It is in TEACHING VIDEOS.

Mel02 wrote: Wonder if who can have more explanation

From the book -- You can be musician, after the sequence of skip 0, 1, 2 step, it say, 'All other combinations of notes are derived from these three sequences, known as musical inversions.'

Why we say musical inversion here? Do we mean the sequence in the forward order is the inversion of the same sequence in backward order. The three sequences (skip 0,1,2 step) in forward and backward = all combination of sequences.

Because C-D can be 2 and 7
C-E can be 3 and 6 and
C-F can be 4 and 5

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_%28music%29#Intervals

Therefore, if to learn 3 circles (we do it with SolFa names), the entire Music Alphabet is covered.

Also wonder if Helene has any chances of checking Melody's playing and having any advice or suggestions?

Yes! She is ready to move on to Favorite Classics 1 - Musette, Largo, Morning Mood; or to Nursery 1 - This Old Man, Hickory Dickory Dock, Little Dog Gone, Pop! Goes the Weasel. Please, keep using1 or 3 for her technique developing pieces!

Drop the 'Fir Tree' or (if you want to) you may polish the piece *alone with all other Introductory songs* with our TEACHING VIDEOS. Ask her to play alone with the videos: softmozart.com/forum/55-teaching-videos.html

Did you ask her to play with notes hidden? RH, LH and PH for all the pieces that she had learned so far? It has to be done before playing with the videos.

You may start reading music (Nursery Primer, Fav Classic Primer on 2, 4, 5 and 6. Set a goal to play entire Album and make less then 5, 4,3,2,1 mistakes). After that reading Keyboard encounters. Do not let her play any piece more then twice! She has excellent music memory! She quickly memorizes her pieces and will pretend reading.

We started to play "a small fir-tree" this week in Introductory Song album, the note jump from Re to Ti and she was doing more by whatever finger beginning, so I suggested the finger position after watching the teaching video. Is this right?

If she is perceptive, absolutely! They resist (or don't hear our suggestions, when they don't have enough 'room' in their mind for fingering yet)

Or shall wait for her to figure out herself --- this one is a new pattern and not sure if she is able to figure out, since her finger 4 or 5 are still weak and would not be her first choice to play Ti or high Do.

This is another option. As a classically trained piano player at first I was very anxious about correct fingers working with Soft Mozart for couple of first years. After that I had notice that kids, after playing exercises, manage their fingers very reasonably and need our involvement much less then we think.

The other plan is to play the earlier songs "Hot Cross Bun", "French Song", "Ode To Joy", "Jingle Bell" without computer this week, then next week introduce the metronome, then we go back to Soft Mozart again to align with Soft Mozart again.

I see her potentials. She can make the transition faster. Very talented girl.

Wonder if Hannon is also in Soft Mozart, it will help to see if they do the rhyme correctly.

Yes, Hanon a must. We play ir with each hand, with saying the keys, with metronome and with timer

Please, check TEACHING VIDEOS section to see, how I teach to play it. Again, feel free to contact me, if you need me asap. I also available on Skype Sundays.