Thank you, ttteh
I am also very excited, because I could not talk my DD into doing any finger exercise and I am sure if we just took her for formal lessons at this age we would be headed for disappointment.
But using Gentle Piano my DD is able to play song "Jingle Bells" from the beginning to the end.
Day 4 /Week 1 of SoftMozart
So far today she did it twice.
Her first score R1 : 37 out of 45/ 176
Her second score R2: 33 out of 45/ 142
Also I want to explain details on how we do it.
(I will try to take a video, but I so far I was not successful)
I am pointing out the notes on the screen, and naming them ( this helps her greatly to stay focused), and she finds and presses corresponding notes on the keyboard.
I realized that sometimes she presses the wrong note because at the bottom of the screen appear the note that you need to play next, and sometimes she plays it instead of the one on the yellow line.
I will try to get her more familiar with the HC Buns song (we will sing it together, see on youtube other kids sing it, so hopefully she will fall in love with it
The HC Buns is more suitable for us because because part for the left hand there is less complicated than in JB. In JB you need to hit to keys at once with one hand. We haven't tried it yet, but it looks complicated.
I want to say that one more advantage of this program is that even if you have a very busy schedule, it is easy to stay on track : just play couple games for couple minutes, and you did already at least something!
Update:
I did show Izzabella some youtube clips of Hot Cross Buns, we sang it together couple times and after that tried to play it using Gentle Piano.
First we listened to the song and sang it together, then she played it with her right hand her score was:
First one I forgot to record,
Her second one R2 was 15 out of 15 / 33.
Then I added another 7 stickers to the keyboard, for the left hand, placed a sheet of paper, standing between two sets, so that she does not sees notes for the right hand to distract her. We did not advance far... as playing with the left hand striking 2 notes together was very new to both of us... we will concentrate on it tomorrow...
now she is running around the house singing HCB