6, 3 years old, US

Here is my son playing the French Song on Day 14 of lessons. He has started insisting that he play the right hand of the song he is learning 4 times, the left hand 4 times and then the pair 4 times. Today he started playing French Song on level 3. He also reviews hot cross buns 2-4 times on level 6 (which is his preference as he is very comfortable with it now)



Thanks for making this so fun for us!

He has started getting more comfortable with the chromatic scale. Here he is on day 16 of lessons:



When do you recommend starting to use both hands for that excercise?

His scores for today were:

Guess the Key 710 in 20 min

Hot Cross Buns level 6, Pair: 36/37 t21, 37/37 t 21
French song level 3, Pair: 48/48 t18, 46/48 t16
Jingle Bells level 1, Pair: 75/77 t60, 74/77 t59

Here is a video of my son playing piano today on day 23 of lessons.

The first video is the chromatic scale:


The second is Musette:


And here are some scores from today:
Note Alphabet School, 5 minutes: 343

Guess the Key, 5 minutes: 223

French Song, level 3, pair: 48/48 t 12
level 4, pair: 45/48 t25

Jingle Bells, level 3, pair: 76/77 t 29
level 4, pair: 72/77 t 71

Musette, level 3, pair: 67/70 t 28
70/70 t 20

For practice sight reading we did Jack and Jill, level 3, Right: 21/26 t 63
Left: 9/11 t35


And then we started Rock Group from Boogie 1. The scores are from the first time through. We then watched the teaching vido which we found immensely helpful and he played again with much more confidence with the hand placement.

Level 1, right: 24/24 t45
Level 1, left: 39, 45 t71

Hellene, I just wanted to run over what we've been doing each day in our lessons along with some recent scores to see if we've been incorporating the elements in the order you'd recommend.

For my 3 year old (a very impatient wiggly little boy):
3 min Guess the key: 38
Do-So right hand 2-4x while singing
Do-So left hand 2-4x while singing
Do-Do and back (me playing) while he sings
We then work on hot cross buns 2-4x
He is currently doing Level 1P 35/37 time 79

For my 6 year old:
5 minutes Guess the key: 223
Then either 5 minutes of
Fruit line school: 219 OR
Note Alphabet school: 373
He then practices Hannon stretching excercises with both hands up and down and the chromatic scale with both hands up and down
Next, we move on to gentle piano:
(One question I have is when to drop a song from our practice and should we occassionally go back to it to review?)
Currently we are doing:
French Song Level 3P: 48/48 time 13
4P: 48/48 t10
Jingle Bells Level 3P:76/77 t24
4P:76/77 t31
Musette Level Level 3P: 70/70 t21
4P: 68/70 t26
Rock group boogie Level 3P: 68/69 t45
69/69 t53
Then we practice a new nursey song each day to sight read, most recently Mary had a little lamb. Level 4R: 46/53 68; Level 4L: 9/10 t17; Level 4P 54/63 102.
Also, today and yesterday he is practcing Jolly Old St Nicholas becasue he wants to be able to play more christmas songs. Last score Level 1P 65/67 t51.

Are we doing too much? Not enough? Should we be doing fewer songs with more repetitions and dropping ones he knows well even though he hasn't yet memorized them, or should we keep practicing a variety of songs with just a few reps of each during the lesson? We've gone through the kingdom of tune book a few times, but aren't doing much with the flash cards as the boys dont' really like flash cards, however they seem to be picking up the note names and locations through the games and sight reading practice.

I just wanted to give you an update and ask for any feedback or suggestions you may have. Thanks!