Are you teaching perfect pitch?

[fiz]

Perhaps you could search for: (1) second-hand.... (2)  you may borrow from someone you know who has good quality tuning forks.....because you won't  use it very often especially after the child gets his pitch corrected,  it is similar to swimming exercise, once the child learns how to swim then you would have to chuck the swimming ring away.....something like that...

[mum2tiger]

This is a really interesting thread. Thank you for all the information.

Dear Fiz, I am directing the questions to you because I am from Malaysia too. I have been looking for Scichida books in English and I am wondering is you have seen it on any online stores or any of the major bookstores you mentioned?

Right brain practise is a pain in the butt now that he is so assertive and his own boss. How did you do it when your daughter was around the same age?

My son is almost 21 months and we have been using the tuning forks regularly (home practise) for about 6 months now. He hums after the forks but he is not able to tell me the notes yet.  Music class is in the pipeline when I feel he is ready and yes, I think solfege is the way to go.

 

[fiz]

 Hi mum2tiger,

For Shichida's books in English, you may check Shenli's blogpost. Not mistaken she bought several English copies... it doesn't cross my mind to find out since I read Chinese and Chinese and Japanese are the closest in terms of language structure and meaning. 

When my daughter was small,  I never missed speed reading to her in math and factual information  such as timetables, periodic tables, world maps, countries and capitals, brain's anatomy, flash cards,  lots of stories readings,  simple sticker puzzle exercises ( MPH has many books in this nature)  and swimming.

Speed reading on factual information helps cultivate child's vastness of reading interest to learn less interesting subjects later because in reality not all subjects are interesting or pictorial, I  believe it boils down to child's " habitual" reading style since young...

0-3 is the easiest time to teach...hope this helps.

[fiz]

 Yeah, mum2tiger, music is in my list too......you can't leave this out...I  think it is normal to get no answer from a 21 months old baby but to listen to the forks' vibration, what you need to do is to say clearly the music notes when you do the exercise with him, I  believe he "definitely" has perfect pitch ability later when he is exposed to any musical instruments. You are wise to train his hearing though...

[TeachingMyToddlers]

http://shichida.co.jp/english/c1-3_books.php

This is the link to order Shichida books in English. Simply contact them via their online submission, they will reply back with an excel spreadsheet to fill out with the items your request. Then, email it back to them and call with your credit card information. Yes, you will need to call Japan but it's not a big deal, truly. I got my book within about 2 weeks sent by non-expedited airmail.

[celiacelia226]

I still receive the right vocal soon for future education, I do not understand

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