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Adult Learner from Singapore 21 Feb 2012 02:12 #2086

wendykoh22
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Hi everyone, I'm a Singaporean holding a full time teaching job in the public school. Purely motivated by interest, I have been learning piano for the past 6 years and during the course, i have taken grade 1 and 3 piano exam with ABRSM. While i have learnt quite a fair bit from my music education with ABRSM programme thus far, i found my acquisition of music literacy rather slow and inflexible. I am able to play my exam pieces well but almost incapable of decent sight reading.

I was introduced to Soft Mozart by Nancy and have observed tremendous improvement in my music literacy. I started on the programme since the start of this year, and within 1.5 months, i conquered "Fruit Lines" and can confidently say that i have acquired decent music literacy in the aspect of sight reading. This is definitely a milestone SM has allowed me attained. I am looking forward to continue to work on my music education with SM and excited to see the results!

I am marveled to see the music literacy i can acquire as an adult learner (who is often labelled as "too late to learn music") through SM and can certainly say that a child with a growing mind can definitely achieve much more!

SM is definitely a great programme that has the potential for further expansion from an educator's point of view.

Well done SM and Thank you!

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Re: Adult Learner from Singapore 21 Feb 2012 05:48 #2093

Mandabplus3 OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 369 Karma: 50	Oh thats wonderful! I am working on cracking that fruit lines!!!!! So guess key for you next? Time to improve your perfect pitch?
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Re: Adult Learner from Singapore 21 Feb 2012 13:45 #2098

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wendykoh22 wrote:

Hi everyone, I'm a Singaporean holding a full time teaching job in the public school. Purely motivated by interest, I have been learning piano for the past 6 years and during the course, i have taken grade 1 and 3 piano exam with ABRSM. While i have learnt quite a fair bit from my music education with ABRSM programme thus far, i found my acquisition of music literacy rather slow and inflexible. I am able to play my exam pieces well but almost incapable of decent sight reading.

I was introduced to Soft Mozart by Nancy and have observed tremendous improvement in my music literacy. I started on the programme since the start of this year, and within 1.5 months, i conquered "Fruit Lines" and can confidently say that i have acquired decent music literacy in the aspect of sight reading. This is definitely a milestone SM has allowed me attained. I am looking forward to continue to work on my music education with SM and excited to see the results!

I am marveled to see the music literacy i can acquire as an adult learner (who is often labelled as "too late to learn music") through SM and can certainly say that a child with a growing mind can definitely achieve much more!

SM is definitely a great programme that has the potential for further expansion from an educator's point of view.

Well done SM and Thank you!

Dear Wendy,
Thank you very much for sharing your story with us.
Do you think, Singapore's public school system will benefit greatly by having the program in classes for all the kids?

Back to the Mozart

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Re: Adult Learner from Singapore 21 Feb 2012 14:30 #2099

hellene OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 1023 Karma: 43	Mandabplus3 wrote: Oh thats wonderful! I am working on cracking that fruit lines!!!!! So guess key for you next? Time to improve your perfect pitch? Don't hurry! Thorough learning lasts longer!
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Re: Adult Learner from Singapore 24 Feb 2012 08:06 #2163

wendykoh22 OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 3 Karma: 0	Yes.. working on pitch now.. its really quite tough.. haha
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Re: Adult Learner from Singapore 24 Feb 2012 08:12 #2164

wendykoh22 OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 3 Karma: 0	You're welcome. There is a lot to learn about music in many different and creative ways. As for picking up piano in a classroom context, i think SM is definitely fun and effective way. Not to mention that it is relatively easy for a teacher to monitor and facilitate a class of 40 (a regular class size in Singapore school) with SM.
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