Daven almost 6 years old - Singapore

Welcome Daven and Julia. Great start and Daven has good memory skills.

Here is video of Daven playing Jingle Bells



Does he need to master one song at a time without mistake and memorize the song before he can move to a new song?

Can you suggest a good book about theory in playing piano?
We have problem when we move to new song. We have no idea about the finger position and need to search for the video to see how is the finger position for new song.
We have no idea about c position, middle c position before (know it after we borrowed his friend piano lesson book)
It would be nice if you can recommend a good book about playing piano in theory (like fingering, notes, etc)

Thank you

Dear Hellene,

Thank you for you very fast and very details reply. I never learn to play piano before, I thought every piano keys need to be played using the exact correct finger

I will read the progress posted by Khailo and learn from her experiences.

I am living in Singapore and I just found out Soft Mozart available in Singapore (Musikal Genesis).
Are they going to give piano lesson using Soft Mozart programme? Will we make more progress if we join their class?

Thank you.

Hello, Juliva and Daven,and Welcome to the SM Academy!

Hellene asked me to share with you my girls' experiences they had with Soft Mozart Academy.
I apologize for the delay in response to her request. We are very busy with the new school year, especially with our oldest starting her first year of high school.
Liliana,our oldest daughter has achieved great results working with the Academy. Here is a link to this year's May Recital(2014) that she participated in:

www.softmozart.com/forum/67-internationa...liana-14-yo-usa.html

These are the results she obtained in only 13 months of learning with the academy.

Eliana, our second daughter, started learning to play the piano at the same time as Liliana. Here is the link to her participation in this year's May Recital;

www.softmozart.com/forum/67-internationa...eliana-8-yo-usa.html

And this is the link to her progress diary for 2013-2014 Soft Mozart Academy school year:

www.softmozart.com/forum/64-2013-2014/12...na-7-yo-level-1.html

Ariana, our youngest child, began learning with the Academy since last October(2013). She also did great in the 8 months of studying with Soft Mozart before taking part in May's Recital(2014)
Here are the links to her 2013-2014 progress diary and May Recital:

www.softmozart.com/forum/64-2013-2014/12...yo-prep-level-b.html

www.softmozart.com/forum/67-internationa...riana-48-yo-usa.html

We do follow Academy's Lesson Plans assignments closely. And love how well organized it is.

Concerning your question about music theory I have to agree with Hellene's earlier response to you: "the theory is embedded in all of lesson plans and activities". Soft Mozart is truly a complete program for musical development.

Regarding your question about finger positioning for new pieces, again, I agree with Hellene's comment: " if Daven is practicing all the exercises(these are incorporated in the Lesson Plans section), he (most likely) will figure the correct fingering himself. In very rare cases he would need any help from any teacher."

I noticed this with my youngest, Ariana. She does often incorporate the finger positioning in new piano pieces on her own without any input from me. We also look up finger placement in Teaching Videos Category, "Exercises for the First Level" topic. When the piece is more complex we ask for help using live Skype consultation.

I hope this will encourage you and give you more confidence in engaging Daven in full participation in SM Academy.

Hi Khailo,

Thank you very much for taking time off your busy schedule to wrote to me and answer my questions.
Your daughters are playing really well. It encourage us to try our best to follow the lesson plan closely and try our best to follow this programme.

Regards,

Juliva