Heidi, 5.2 yrs old (Romania)

Wow!
We will start on Musette then...after we have a small family celebration for Heidi to reward her for her effort.

Practicing the solfege for all cards:

Hi,

As I already mentioned in Hannah's post, after Heidi started on Level 1 songs we thought of making a small recital for the grandparents + aunt to celebrate this and to also have the girls experience the feeling of the recital.
Heidi was very nervous and could not play. After Hannah played and a few fun moments with my sister trying to figure out a song Heidi offered to help her and show her . She is a very sensitive being.

As you suggested we started on Musette and she was able to memorize it and play it using correct fingering.
Her good scores are around these values:
Musette P3 69-70/70 t8-10

The part that we worked on but could not master it was a couple of short notes 1/8 Mi-Fa; you can hear it in the video.
This is my feedback to her playing... but I am not very musical and I do not feel the rithm.




For about 10 days we started on Deck the Halls and Heidi scores around these times:
P3 104-108 of 108 t43-47

We exercise about 3-4 days a week 7-10 times the main song that she is learning and if she wants to play more she can pick any song (new or old) and then she takes 5-10 min of a game her choice.
Some of the longest times were with
note duration game:
t18:40, 475p, Level 12, 43 something? - btw what is this 43 value? and
t19:05, 729p, level15, 35 something.

She also composed a song using only black keys and that sounds similar to amazing grace. At first I thought my husband or our babysitter taught her. I did not believe her that she composed it until after I asked both my husband and the babysitter about it
I will post it as soon as I get a video of it.

All the best!

Hi,

as you suggested we do watch the learning videos and they were very helpful to see finger positioning, meaning that she understood that and learned that easily. We also tried to sing along with you playing to get the rithm feeling and we also talk about the notes duration in P5 mode as she is familiar with the note symbols from the note duration game (which she likes a lot). And also I point out to her the distance between the notes in P3 mode to help her. We play with and without metronome. It seems to be a long work in progress.
I will try to have her play at the same time with the video.

We also like to watch videos of other kids of similar age play. It is helpful to see others play.

Here is Heidi's own composition. Very interesting... I found it very hard to believe that she made it up, before I asked her dad and the babysitter if they did not play this for her. It is so similar to 'Amazing grace'


Another thing that Heidi wanted to show me and make a video was the hannon exercise played without looking:


And this is her playing Deck the Halls:


You said about cutting sections. I do not know how to use that. How long is a section?

Thanks and have a nice December 1st!

In december we learned deck the halls (almost from memory all) and jingle bells -not mastered that well because of our winter holiday when we were away from home for about 3 weeks.
Deck the halls is this:


In January when we got back we started on Ode to Joy which we now master quite well. Also Heidi can play it quite well with the metronome. No better video yet, just a picture of scores. The one from recital has improved a lot.



And still doing some exercices: