I know we reached the deadline for participating in this year recital but I really wanted to share with you about Matthew who till now refused all direct piano lessons from me so his exposure to piano was through his sister Tina practicing and him independently playing with SoftMozart , he is a living proof that piano learning with Soft Mozart is contagious and how softmozart helps develop a child manual and cognitive abilities .
I was a bit concerned about matti's fine manual abilities .
I was even told maybe he has low muscle tone in his hands and in need of proper evaluation ,
since Tina started learning , and i say Tina because he refused any lesson from me , he just watch Tina than he says my turn now.
I complained to Hellene that he was so confused between left and right , he wanted to play both left and right with his left hand , he couldn't use his right hand and was so uncoordinated , i thought it will be impossible to teach him with soft mozart . Hellene encouraged me to just let him play any way he likes , and i did.
well only now he just played happy cowboy in both hands , ok finger play but still for me this means a lot.
and he insisted on me taking a video and send it to Hellene so she can see how he is doing. i didn't want to make it long so i tried to stop him and he refused insisting on playing the whole piece
Matti loves Soft Mozart games , he is playing them all the time , now his favorite is note duration , he plays it better than Tina . The great thing since he started playing piano his writing and drawing improved when before all he did was scribbling :)he is more focus , better concentration and attention span .
Here's Matti choosing to play boogie as his first piano piece
