Heidi 6yro Romania

Hellene,
you are right about using an easier level for the more difficult songs. Heidi used to do just that: switch to an easier level when the piece seemed to hard.
She hasn't done that lately, not even when learning Jesus Joy of Men's Desire.
Which by the way, we still work on because the right fingering is very hard to achieve....but the satisfaction will also be big once Heidi masters it

Thank you for the idea with the ship and the ocean. We will use that. I noticed her hands too and started reminding her to raise them a bit, but for sure the game will be a lot more fun.

Also thank you for the stickers. I will remind you of this when you send out the butterflies for the Christmas recital, so you don't sent a different letter just for the stickers.

Thank you for the suggestions of songs to follow. So many nice ones I too am curious which one will Heidi pick.

I told Heidi that you praised her for finishing the game, but I was not able to write the score in her diary because I lost the page She is now determined to do it again so I can take a picture She almost did it once, but when she got to level 17 she ran to the bathroom and forgot to press F1 .
What does the value on the bottom right of the staff mean? It keeps on going up and down.

Have a nice weekend (almost)!

Hi,

Jesus Joy of Men's Desire was indeed a song on which Heidi worked hard on... until she discovered Happy Birthday that we received following the Summer Recital. As her grandfathers birthday was approaching she wished to play it for him at his birthday...it was a special one as he turned 60yo.

Unfortunately the JJMD was not finished properly and not polished. We managed to learn it from memory and play it together with and without teaching video and we corrected the left hand fingering, but we did not correct the right hand fingering.

This video is when she learned it from memory before using the teaching video:


This video is with the teaching video (but after a break of doing the Happy birthday song). Her play was a bit better before the happy birthday song, but because of a song switch Heidi somehow lets go of the caught fish very fast . I liked this explanation you gave me... you are absolutely right that it is not important to keep the fish we caught but to learn to catch fish.



Happy birthday turned out to be a whole project.
Heidi wanted her dad to play with her so she even wrote the notes for him to play it on the violin



And the second part is the romanian birthday song that they also both learned

This is Heidi only playing:


This is the rehearsal for Grandas birthday with Hannah singing too.


So proud of her (and Hannah) as they performed in front of @70 people.

She was so caught by this event that she even made a B-day card with the Happy Birthday song using quilling.

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As you suggested we pick something from Simona's Repertoire 2, Heidi picked the Mozart song from Magic Flute. I think she has a crush on Mozart . Only later I noticed that there is no Teaching Video for it, so our version is not very polished unfortunately, but Heidi really liked it.



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This week we started working on Allegro (Gnesina). This time we picked a song by watching the teaching videos and not by listening to the songs in the album.

It is so easy with Heidi now, as she enjoys piano so much and she does not feel at all that she is studying, but more she uses it as breaks from other learning activities. When she wakes up, when I prepare a meal, when I am doing something with Hannah only, when she needs to take a break from something she runs to the piano. She can do pretty much all by herself. So proud of her.
Often friends when we talk on the phone ask me if I put her to that much piano practice, as they always hear her play when I talk on the phone... if I am busy doing something it means that she has a break...and she chooses to play the piano.
I am so grateful for SM as it makes it so easy and fun for any child to lean and become passionate about music.
1000 thank you's!