Carlyn's Progress Diary

Hello, Carlyn!
Sorry for being a little late with my reply!
I watched all of your videos and liked your choice very much! You have an excellent posture, proper hand position and very good progress for your start!

As a piano teacher, though, I have some suggestions.

You have great finger awareness, but we have to start working on finger management. Many piano teachers would give you a score of the piece with the finger numbers - I call it 'giving a fish'.

With Soft Mozart we have little different approach, though I would recommend for you to play all the piano exercises for beginners: www.softmozart.com/forum/55-teaching-vid...the-first-level.html

I selected these 4 essential exercises for a reason: if you will learn all of them, you will be geared with all the finger management tricks. Well, almost all of them

Another suggestion. You had been chosen somewhat difficult piano pieces. Let's chew 'this elephant in smaller pieces'. Did you learn how to cut sections? Please, press the F1 button to learn, how to do that. I also have a video about that:

Working with smaller segments of the song will give you better idea about fingers' management. *But again! Exercises should come first!*

And I have something to ask you Please, copy/paste the link to your videos from the browser window. Links are just links and they are not giving me any visual information when I am glancing through the posts. Identifying the visual material on the spot is very important for many of us!