Heidi 6yro Romania

I am glad you remember that!
This is exactly why we have Butterfly Ball every winter and ever child gets a butterfly per song: I want them to play more pieces without polishing them. Butterfly Ball is about quantity. Graduation is about quality. This way will be perfect on both sides.

I did not realize this about the two recitals... I way actually telling Heidi off the wrong way, that she can not post any song for the butterfly ball, unless she plays it very well. I was trying to get her not to learn as many songs as possible just for the butterflies
She will be happy to count her butterflies now

When she writes a song down she usually does it at the table by singing the song and here and there she runs to the piano to check where she is not sure. For the sheet of music she wrote she did the notes on purpose round so they would be similar with daddy's sheet music from the orchestra.

Heidi is not a natural talent in rithm, but she has improved. We also go to a "musical kindergarten" class that is held in the local music school and it has a lot of games and group contests about rithm. She is now at the point at where she does not do it right just by seeing the notes (duration) but once I explain it to her she understands and tries to do it better... but she needs a lot of practice especially with combinations of eight notes.
She probably takes after me

I did not realize this about the two recitals... I way actually telling Heidi off the wrong way, that she can not post any song for the butterfly ball, unless she plays it very well. I was trying to get her not to learn as many songs as possible just for the butterflies
She will be happy to count her butterflies now

Yes, this is the way to go!

When she writes a song down she usually does it at the table by singing the song and here and there she runs to the piano to check where she is not sure. For the sheet of music she wrote she did the notes on purpose round so they would be similar with daddy's sheet music from the orchestra.

She is learning properly!

Heidi is not a natural talent in rithm, but she has improved.

Yes, I can see how TEACHING VIDEOS with metronome work. The big improvement since last semester noted.

We also go to a "musical kindergarten" class that is held in the local music school and it has a lot of games and group contests about rithm. She is now at the point at where she does not do it right just by seeing the notes (duration) but once I explain it to her she understands and tries to do it better... but she needs a lot of practice especially with combinations of eight notes.

I developed a very smooth way of writing rhythmical dictations. You will hear and see it soon. Just watch for the announcements.

She probably takes after me

This is an educational issue: we are going to take care of this. I developed the way of rhythm stenography as well. Just need time to create videos and explenations how to do this.

Hi Hellene,

it's been such a long time since I last wrote in our PD, but we have been practicing and I did get most of our progress recorded, I just didn't find the time to write it down.
With the baby on the way and we also had to move twice and we are still not all settled in. But we always kept our piano at hand.

These are the songs we learned. I'll try to post them in order, but i might get some wrong.

1. Gnesina, Allegro this was a very much loved piece, but the teaching video was quite fast.
from memory:


and with teaching video:

2. Chatushka