Maia (5.9 y.o.) and Camelia

As for me, in all my craziness, I adventured myself in L. Einaudi's "Primavera", although I know it isn't, by far, the level of my piano knowledge.
But, I looooove this piece so much, that I'll sleep on the piano till I learn it .

Since it is very long and tricky, I decided to split it into pieces, which I'll post one by one.

So far, I noticed there are places where the left hand is much softer, almost like an echo for the right hand. I think this was the biggest challenge for my hands (at least up to this point):



Have a great day!

Great start!

Thank you so much, dear Natalia .

Hello, everyone!

How to motivate a child and get her/him rid of frustrations and fears to dare for more?

There was a day when Maia felt like having difficulties in sight-reading her left hand. All I had to do to pull her out of this mood was to ask her a simple question: "Do you like your doll to read the left hand for you?"
She instantly grabbed her doll and "asked" it to play in her place. Obviously, Maia pretends the doll plays in her place, but this new game makes her so happy and seems to make her eager to dare for more!
She even accepted to sing with her voice the notes, and this is a huge step for her:



She's even put together both hands for "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
And we are already working on polishing it with the teaching videos:



As for me, I went on with "Primavera" - I hope it is better than part 1:



Have a great weekend you all!

Dear Hellene, your appreciation means so much for us!

Maia says "Thank you, Hellene! Thank you!" and I can only promise to do my best in mastering "Primavera".

Yes, it totally got me - at night I constantly hear it in my ears, I think about it all day long and ask myself what do I have to do to play it better .
I wasn't joking when I said I am crazy about it!!

I also think our results are the living proof of the Soft Mozart program efficiency - to get to play such complicated pieces, without being fluent in reading the music sheet and in such short time is huge.

Have a great weekend and take good care.
Kisses and hugs !