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

Helene, thanks for the advice. Will try with teaching video. Do you suggest for Mussette, Largo, Morning mood, ode to Joy, or also include the songs in introductory. Legato is the point for Largo, Morning mood, ode to Joy? Is that Mussette are staccato? I did not get it last time in your comments, now I see that we didn't use the SM fully, we tried to get less time in playing P5, and thought butterfly is a wrong thing to do. But really we could actually use butterfly to play legato?! Any way to do staccato with SM, I thought if the flower didn't fully bloom, the note will not move. So we will just do staccato with teaching video right?


Also, when you say play with teaching video, do you mean to do what done in teaching video --- learn what is in teaching video, then do one with metronome, one without? Or to play with the teaching video at the same time as the video play.



Btw, we went back to do chords yesterday, this time we did listen S on level 6, as you mentioned. She did the chords much better then, I think she is reading/remembering the pattern of chords from the level 6 sheet. Is this right?

Just realize haven't been on for a while.

There are quite some exploration after Helene's suggestion. After Helene pointed that we should play while the video is playing, I realized what has been held us back, the on-line is unpredictable, the video stopped here and there buffering, that was why we never tried to play with video.

We must have video locally. So settled down to figure out how to do it with google. Hitted the way of installing youtube easy download add-on to the brower, I use firefox. My laptop was XP, so had to install more other things to view the download MP4 video in window media player. Now the downloading is just a click of button -- very convenient.

We also have an amazing founding when we started the butterfly game a couple of days back. To make Melody listen to her own playing, I tried the "recording" in the digit piano we had. Melody mentioned something about "it played". Then we successfully recorded her playing, then happened to be we hit on the P in the softmozart, then started the replay, what we saw was Melody can now watch her own performance! The notes moved! Melody is able to how many butterfly she caught and where she missed.
Not sure if this is ever noticed by softmozart community, this would be a nice/fun/useful feature to be mentioned. We were excited.

For play chord, we did major C, G, F, D. Melody is able to do each now with 0/1 error under 3 times. Time is under 4 in 5LH.

For following the video, we are trying to mimic the hand gesture and try to sync on the time of press and release the key. I am asking Melody to roll her hand like the wave. Is that the right way to follow? Or anything we should pay attention? We followed the video from the simple songs (Hot cross bun, frech song, ode to joy) and try to see how to follow.

She didn't seem to get the idea of holding a key till the pressing of the other key--even when go try butterfly, butterfly come, but the next key also delayed. Is that when play butterfly, we should ignore the time in the right side?

We have some questions about playing chord for Minor.

We have finished all the chord 1 major a few days back. When we proceed with Minor A, we are not sure how to interpret now, because there is also C&G, F&G while A&E, D&E, D&F.

We guess A&E is mother, D&E father, D&F daughter. But then what about C&G, F&G in the picture?