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Jothi,

My daughter Rachel developed perfect pitch with Soft Mozart after 4 months learning piano with Soft Mozart. Rachel develop perfect pitch with only one program which is SM and I believe it is through her playing extensive pieces using the program and singing solffege for every songs that she played.

Here are some discussion on perfect pitch by Soft Mozart.
forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-...for-little-musician/

Pei Lin

I thought I'd write a few points as to how I am keeping my daughter interested in piano as I know there are quite a few parents here who don't play/are learning the instrument at the same time.

I completed my AMEB Grade 8 piano and was halfway through completing my AMus, but quit as I was preoccupied with finishing my uni degree at the time. I also learnt the Kodaly method as a kid too when I was involved in a children's choir - loved learning solfege as you could transpose in any key you liked, learn to sing in harmony and gain excellent ear training. I liked, but do not love playing the piano - I wish I did though. I think back to the times as to what I would have liked my parents/teacher to do with me to increase my interest in practice and am now implementing it with my daughter.

1. When we were learning Ode to Joy, we read a story about Beethoven so we can learn more about the person who wrote the piece. (My First Classical Music Book by Genevieve Helsby & Jason Chapman)

2. I looked on YouTube for a professional pianist playing Ode to Joy - it was a man who was playing a few variations; just so my daughter would know how she could sound one day

3. We sing in Solfege during the day, including songs we aren't learning on piano. Plus I teach her hand signs with it, pretending each hand sign is part of a house eg. doh - knock on door.

4. I do solfa jumping - taping flash cards onto plastic plates and my daughter jumps on the cards (from do to to, ascending then descending); then interval training by taking away eg. re, fah, la, ti - so she would only jump on do, me, so, do - and she also learns tonic triad at the same time!!! Then I take away me, soh and let her jump on remaining plates.

That's it for now..will continue when I can remember some more.

We started with Ode to Joy with only the right hand, but I could tell after a few days that the music was a bit too long for her, so I thought I'd switch to Hot Cross Buns instead. (Yes I was using the downloadable Starter Pack at the time so I was able to choose between the 6 songs).

Sometimes she says she doesn't want to play piano, but I also tell her if I don't spend time with her piano playing, I'll teach her 10 month old brother instead. And of course she doesn't want to give away her mummy and daughter time to her brother!!!! Ha ha.

Hopefully in the next week I can upload a couple of reasonable videos of the activities I am doing with her. I'll add some comments in another topic of what I've been doing to increase her interest in the piano.

She has been playing Ode To Joy both hands 46/48 and plus t14
I think I might encourage her to have a good listen through the pieces, pick one she likes thats a bit more challenging and have her perfect it. She would get a kick out of the challenge and the ability to play something nice anywhere anytime.

I find with her she is most interested in piano when she hears me playing, so I try to practice while the kids are around. They always kick me off for a turn!

Jaykob got quite sick and seems to have taken a while to get back his zing, he hasnt played piano for days but was keen to play with the solfege presents/flashcards. He can easily put them in order going up from do re and me. He isnt as confident going down yet (or has he forgotten?)

His last attempt at piano with NO help from anyone got him 24/30 and plus 51 on Ode to Joy.

Its interesting to note that although he hasnt learnt much on piano this last week he has learnt many many letter names and letter sounds, and shown me he knows a few new words too. He also has consolidated his knowlege of the numerals and tells me everytime he sees one. He even told me how much a toy car would be and asked if that was "too spensive mummy". Perhaps his brain is busy doing this learning at the moment.

Anyway today he seemed back to his old self again, so although tomorow is a very busy day we will try to squeeze in some piano time.

Wow school has made it hard for us to fit it all in!. Endless homework
Tiana has been playing Hot cross buns, and Jingle Bells (which is her favourite) this week. she is happy to play left, right and both hands for each piece she plays
She had her first Piano lesson at school, I had one minute to chat to her teacher as we were both rushing around so I wrote her a note to let her know Tiana is learning sofegio at home. She is happy to reinforce this in lessons as needed. PHEW! Tiana has decided to share a piano lesson with one of her friends so they will be learning in CDE at school. Tiana doesnt seem at all concerned ("its very easy piano songs mummy!") Her teacher has given her music note reading homework from day one....quite unusual, but she based her decision on the fact that Tiana understood the music staff! Go soft Mozart!!!!
So we will have her play the games in both Solfegio and CDE format and occasionally switch between the two as she choses to. Oh her first two pieces for this weeks practice are going to be a breeze for her....
I just have to make sure we all have enough practice time now.

Hi, I have started my just turned 3 year old on the Soft Mozart journey and the results have been very promising. I just received the 12 month subscription, but have spent the last week whilst waiting for the software to arrive using the trial version.

My daughter enjoys playing the piano, and at times is not completely focused on the lesson, but for some reason is always drawn to finish her lesson. I think it is the computer game/reward/instant feedback aspect (and also the stickers I give her at the end of each lesson ) that makes her practice every day.

For the first few days she was scared of the spider in the Guess the Key game, so I had to explain to her that it was a friendly spider, and to prove it to her, I had to point out the smile on the spider. Now each time we start off the game, we wave and say hello to the gnome and the spider everytime we see them on the screen.

She loves playing Hot Cross Buns and even when she's not on the piano, she sings it in solfege and plays it on the xylophone.

We keep the lessons short - only 5-10 minutes a day + play a solfa jumping game, where I've enlarged the flash cards and stuck them onto plastic plates and the kids jump on the cards. Then I take some of the cards so that we do some interval training and guess the next note games.

Thank you Hellene for this product. It is the best product I have found to teach piano and musicianship skills!!

Questions:
Do we need to purchase the Kingdom of Tune Book and the Flash Cards separately or are they meant to be part of the kit?

What is the crypt box for? Are we meant to use this every time we play the program?

Hello Hellene,
I wanted to print the music note flashcards 1 and then I have noticed that there isn't an option to print flashcards with H instead of B
Or do I need to teach my daughter B in order to be able to follow your curriculum?
Thanks

Oh thats wonderful! I am working on cracking that fruit lines!!!!!
So guess key for you next? Time to improve your perfect pitch?