Antoine 12 years old

Hi, Antoine!
Hi, Moutas!
Antoine, you made an excellent progress with piano playing and developing your piano technique! Keep up the great job!

moutas wrote: September - October 2013

In the hall of the Mountain King - E. Grieg

I have the following advices/suggestion. Please, turn piano volume a little down (not much - just a little) when you do the recording. It is going to help me to have clear sounds with no echo.

Performance: it is time for Antoine start working on the most delicious and exciting stage in playing piano: artistic playing. Please, watch the TEACHING VIDEO section: softmozart.com/forum/55-teaching-videos/...html?limit=6&start=6

In the Hall of the Mountain King is a piece that should be played staccato. There are some phrasing, crescendo and diminuendo, soft and loud parts. In couple of places fingers should be a little different. Let me know, if the video is helpful enough for you.

New piece I think Antoine can start practicing couple of pieces for holiday recitals. 'Train ride' from Boogie 2, for example? Check Boogie 2 Album and let me know, which one do you like the most.

Hanon #1

I wish to see, how he plays that. We may add some challenging components to his piano technique development.

Circle 1 : Do to Do, Re to Re, Mi to Mi forward and backwards

GREAT!

Guess Key game : 3:15 mn score : 700 sing the notes while playing

I like this number!

Music dictation : ok

Good!

Let me know, if you have any more questions or need my help/support

moutas wrote: Thank you for your advice.

Hanon 1#

Thank you very much for the video. Now I see, what else we can do! I would ask him to play the exercise now in 2 octaves. Ask him to have a challenge naming the keys that he plays.
AFTER accomplishing this, please, ask him to start playing with metronome slightly increasing the speed.

Antoine continues practising "In the hall of the Mountain King" with the video.

Excellent

He has started "Train Ride" on R hand

Excellent

Ear training

He starts memorizing "old Mc Donald" with piano for instance and then He'll do it without piano.

If he singing the notes Solfeggio?

He starts working with Note Alphabet

Way to go!