Heidi - 5 y.o. - Romania

Bravo Heidi! Well done!

Adeline, Heidi definitely has got idea about staccato. She is doing correct sound! The movement can be higher, but so far (and for keyboard!) it is fine. She just started to learn different ways for sounds. With practice she will have more clear idea.

Hello, Heidi!
Thank you very much for participating in our recital! I watched three videos and only after seeing the third one I got more complete picture of your progress. You are developing so fast that on the first video and on the third are two different levels of playing piano!
It seems like every new piano piece is building new set of skills in playing the instrument.
Let's talk about some specific details:
The 'Wedding March'. You were under a lot of pressure. I remember, how I was suggesting to start learning this piece for you. It was Level 2 piece, but we just had to learn it for the wedding. My expectations were not very high, because you just started piano and the piece meant to be for the second level students.
You absolutely made it! You even memorized it! Moreover, you were capable of playing introduction to this famous piece (even though, it was not in your score!) ... and you made it under the pressure of performing it at the actual ceremony!
Heidy, it was excellent!
I am absolutely sure that now on you will always enjoy playing in front of people. Why not? You CAN!
The 'Morning Mood'. There are some tricky places in this piece, where anybody can get confused, which fingers to use. Not you! You managed the order of your fingers very well. I would recomend you to start practicing more with the TEACHING VIDEOS. On the video I saw that you tried. Way to go!
The ' Radetsky March' was the most current piece? Here is what I had observed so far: your fingers became stronger, faster and more confident. The song's flow is good: there are 2 parts in the piece with more complicated content. You didn't slow down much playing these parts.
Your piano posture improved! The hand position is correct. The elbows and shoulders are not tensed.
What was the most impressive is that you were easily combining staccato and legato and all in the right places.
I was especially pleased to hea you singing the music notes, I think, this summer we should try to write the piece down. What do you think?
My recommendation would be to play more exercises first of all. It seems to me that you CAN play even more challenging pieces.
I also would like to see you getting on piano with weighted keys. It is about time for you to start playing real instrument to be able to be able to work on dynamics and make your fingers even stronger and more flexible in pressing the piano keys: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music) .
I am looking forward to see you at our Summer classes and next semesters.

I am going to send you a certificate and little present in a memory of your another great recital!

Sincerely,
Hellene Hiner, Professor of Herzen University (St Petersburg, Russia) - Developer of the Course 'Additional vocational training program and Interactive network technologies'. The author of 'Soft Way to Mozart computer based curriculum for teaching music and piano.

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