Nikko 6 Years Old

Hi!
I am very sorry... I didn't get your score in HCB... In my version it has only 15 notes in right hand, 22 notes in left hand. Together - 37 notes. And you have every time different from 26 to 42?

Sorry, this was actually hands together. HCB has 42 notes HT. Perhaps a bit too soon for HT but he wanted to try and did fairly well.

We worked with the flash cards for about 10 minutes -- he is able to recite forward and backward from memory. With the cards on the floor, he can "fill in the blanks" when cards are removed. We are now working on different starting points.

Fruit Lines
152 -- 5:20

Note Alphabet
143 -- 4:28

Note Duration
51 -- 2:44

HCB
1 -- RH (I) 26/26 -- 15
1 -- LH (I) 16/16 -- 3
2 -- RH (I) 26/26 -- 19
2 -- LH (I) 16/16 -- 5

Nikko is singing while playing and is finding the correct fingering on his own most of the time. He played through the RH part 3 times to get to this score. He, like almost all of my other students, gets Do (C) and Mi (E) confused on the keyboard. Any suggestions on this would be most helpful.

From 09/21/12 Lesson
Nikko is working on memorizing Re to Re and back.

I introduced dictation today -- we did the first few bars of HCB; he got all the notes, but had some difficulties figuring out which of the notes were half notes.

Worked on Hannon and Chromatic Scale, RH and LH for about 10 minutes.

We started a new piece today -- Solo Flight and spent about 15 to 20 minutes working on it.

1 - RH - 22/22 -- 22
1 - LH - 16/16 -- 8
1 - P - 37/38 -- 39

Note Alphabet
225 -- 5:14

We had some delays and had to do the lesson much later and didn't have as much time as usual but there was progress.

We did 5 minutes of dictation and about 5 minutes of solfege re to re and back and mi to mi and back.

Solo Flight

1 - R - 22/22 14 Time last lesson 22
1 - L - 16/16 4 Time last lesson 8
1 - P - 38/38 36 Time last lesson 39

New presentation
3 - R - 22/22 19
3 - P - 35/38 30

trey wrote: We had some delays and had to do the lesson much later and didn't have as much time as usual but there was progress.

We did 5 minutes of dictation and about 5 minutes of solfege re to re and back and mi to mi and back.

Solo Flight

1 - R - 22/22 14 Time last lesson 22
1 - L - 16/16 4 Time last lesson 8
1 - P - 38/38 36 Time last lesson 39

New presentation
3 - R - 22/22 19
3 - P - 35/38 30

I have some confusion about some terminology, but, I guess, I will have a chance to ask you about it during our Skype session tomorrow!

This was Nikko today :evil:

Hannon -- Hands separately up and back. He is ready for HT next lesson.

Chromatic Scale --HS -- RH is much better than LH -- he tries to play it too fast and makes mistakes -- we started over countless times just to get him to slow down.

Dictation -- First 4 bars of Hot Cross Buns (rhythm only) perfect first time.

Note Alphabet
225 -- 5:14
Last lesson was 208 -- 5:45
He has discovered the space bar and is making a lot of mistakes because he wants to play the game fast. Should I ask him not to use the space bar for now?

Gentle Piano
Solo Flight
1 - R - 22/22 - 10
1 - L -16/16 - 4
1 - P 38/38 - 33

We didn't get to presentation 3 today.

Last lesson -- Solo Flight:
1 - R - 22/22 - 14
1 - L - 16/16 - 4
1 - P - 38/38 -36
3 - R - 22/22 - 19
3 - P - 35/38 - 30

Teaching your own children can be especially challenging My other students almost always do exactly as I ask. Both my boys are very strong willed and want to do things their way -- it's a constant battle.