Titus (2yo) and Juli (adult)

Good Job Titus! Enjoyed watching this video again:) Thank you Julia for sharing with me about Soft Mozart! We are very excited start the program.

So, last week, we started segment 2 and added the Humperdinck Slumber Song to our repertoire of listening (and me playing on presentation 2). I feel like my own sight reading is getting better, which is encouraging. And Titus is recognizing the songs. He now loves Joseph Haydn's Surprise Symphony! I play them on the piano, sometimes I will turn on Gentle Piano on presentation 1 and then press S to listen through the song. We also listen to both on youtube.

We are also listening from do to do and re to re and the theory theater.

We have been doing the flashcards where he has to pick them out by the picture, but he doesn't do so well at that one, which is interesting, because he does pick them out well on the piano now both when we play hot cross buns and when we play the guess key school.

With Hot Cross Buns, I no longer touch the piano at all. He can play the entire song. Now, obviously this is with starts and stops, with sometimes getting distracted (for example because today he happens to like the note Ti and wants to keep pressing it instead), but I just remind him what note he is supposed to play and he will come back to it on his own. I no longer have to press it for him or even show him. Oh, and we sing the notes together, so he does say them as he presses them.

But, overall I am really impressed with his progress and really stoked about continuing.

For myself, I have mostly been following the curriculum for him instead of the adult level 1 (like Ode to Joy and other classical pieces).

Here is Titus doing the finger exercises:


Here he is playing fa with the correct finger, but the sound was lost for some reason: