Perfect Pitch Videos

[TeachingMyToddlers]

I will make a point to try and finish it over the next week or two, or at least skim it for relevant parts. I have only gotten up to chapter 2 I think,    too busy and other books took priority! I'll get back to you on that.

[mybabyian]

TeachingMyToddlers,  Thanks for your reply to my question.  I just realized you answered it!   

[CVMomma]

This is very impressive what you have done with your kids musically!  I would like to also start my daughter on some music practice.  I was just wondering if there was anything special about the tuning forks that you used (from tweedlewinks, I believe?).  I have searched online for tuning forks and found some on ebay that were from a company in India for $29.99 and free shipping worldwide.  There were 8 in the set and they were from middle C up to high C.  Do you have any idea if they would be similar??? Definitely they are more affordable!!!  Right now, affordable is important

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Hi CVMomma,

I do not own tuning forks. We used BrillKids Little Musician (which is in closed beta testing right now and is not for sale just yet) and a digital keyboard for Lily to play the songs she memorized using Little Musician. If I were in your shoes, I would probably buy them and then using a pitch testing device like an free app downloaded to my Iphone and test how accurate the pitch is. If it was off, I'd try to return them to the company. And let us know how it goes if you do because it could potentially save a lot of parents money on cheaper tuning forks!

[rachelalpes]

very nice thank you for sharing  all this 

[cokers4life]

Thank you for sharing!  I am very interested in the program.  I think Soft Mozart is a beautiful program, but its a bit pricey for such a short or long commitment.  I am holding out for Little Musician, but I am curious.  Does Little Musician teach piano or music concepts overall?   I like the color coding of the notes better the pictures. 

Thanks!

[Skylark]

Little Musician will be teaching music concepts, perfect pitch, rhythm, EK on composers, instruments and music compositions, etc

Overall it is an excellent program which would introduce the child to music, giving a solid foundation, which can later be applied to any instrument study the parents would decide to pursue.

[JothiShanthosh]

Hi TMT,

I love to see your all posting in forum and very much inspired with your Lilly’s performance.

Personally I don’t have any musical background and however now-a-days giving more concentration to learn and teach music to my son 2.8 years old and very naughty boy.

I started to teach music class 3 months before using SoftMozart learning system. I am having trouble to make him to play Piano because of in his naughty. He won’t let me to hold his hand and teach. So I prepared some song cards with our Indian Solfeggio like (Sa Re Ga Ma) and stick it in wall and sang many times with him. Now he likes to sing and read that cards and would like to play himself.

Why I am telling this means he is very much interested to write and he learned himself. So he would like to play piano himself.

I heard about perfect pitch in forum but still I don’t know actual meaning of perfect pitch. My big desire is to teach him to identify the sounds of the key. While watching the video I surprised lot and Lilly did it in very cute and nice manner. I was too disturbed with her performance and enjoyed lot. Now I have a hope that I can achieve it like you. But I don’t know the clear way to achieve that.

Is his age too late to understand and memories the sound? Just curiosities how long Lilly took for achieve this. How long it will take for us to achieve the same.

We have a plan to buy Little Musician also. Please guide us how to achieve the same as like you. It would be very helpful for us to teach perfect pitch and sound to my son.

Thanks,
Jothi…

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Jothi-

It took about 6 months for my daughter. I estimate my son is about halfway there. No, you're son is not too old at all! Mostly we focused on:

1) Little Musician Chord Training. This is covered in the daily lesson and you can use free play for extra practice or the chord training files.

2) Lots and lots of nursery rhyme songs in solfege. Start with just 1-3 songs until you and your child memorize them and can begin to sing them around the house and such. After that, begin to learn more and more.

3) Reinforce the note colors. This will be easy with the Little Musician Note colors available for download and all of the new icons that will be available in the official curriculum. If you have a keyboard/piano, color the notes as well with white office supply stickers colored with magic markers. Encourage your child to sing as they hit the keys. Relax that they are hunting and pecking and not using proper finger technique, there is time for that in my (non-professional) opinion. When he is a bit older he may respond better to soft mozart. Also, you can color his fingers down to road to encourage him to use all his fingers but not in the beginning. You can also make floor charts to walk and sing on, use colored balls, toys, colored popsicle sticks, cards, blocks, whatever! while lining them up and singing, scales or chords.

My current program to help finish training my sons ears particularly is the LMs daily lesson, then free play chord training, I let Owen click through usually which he loves, while encouraging us all to sing along) or some Chord files. Lastly, we do as many nursery rhymes as as have time for, sometimes just 2 or 3, sometimes 4-6 it just depends on our day.  I will note that my daughter spent considerably more time on the keyboard with colored keys playing the songs she learned in Little Musician than my son did and her ears are better developed at the moment. He is coming along though and she is learning to recognize chords, although technically speaking it is more difficult to identify single notes-- I'd like them both to be able to do both.

Hope that helps!!

[JothiShanthosh]

Thanks TMT,

We have downloaded the LM colour and sticked on the Piano. We are teaching the same with the colour balls. Really we hope that it will give very good result from my son in understanding the perfect pitch.

Thanks once again...

[sidonia]

Hi  TMT !

Thank you for sharing your progress with LM ,that is amazing.I have no musical background and  i would like  to follow your example,but it is difficult for me to make that.I have some very  basic questions  for you,could you please advice me ?.Many ,many thanks.

1.How can i play the nursery rhymes from LM on the colored keyboard when  the notes are not displayed for that songs?I did not find any notes or text for the nursery rhymes in the clap along section.I like that in the SM the notes are displayed for  any sound you play.

2.How can i recognize the notes behind the sounds from the nursery rhymes?

3.How can i use the chord files with the LM piano keyboard for chord training?

4.How  can i learn the child  to sing aloud when she is hitting the keys ?

5.Where can i download the LM colour for printing it out?

[TeachingMyToddlers]

1.How can i play the nursery rhymes from LM on the colored keyboard when  the notes are not displayed for that songs?I

-There are no lyrics, but rather they are sung in solfege names. Go to "Play & Edit" > "Music Notes" > and then scroll all the way down to the Children's Songs folder at the bottom. When you click a song once and it turns blue, on the right hand side of the screen is the lesson preview. It may say "Show: Multiple Notes" or "Note Scroll" for example. I don't know what is the best way, but you can experiment with what you and your child prefers in how the notes are displayed. Just click the settings cogwheel.

2.How can i recognize the notes behind the sounds from the nursery rhymes?

-They are all sung in solfege so you will be able to recognize them by their name, do, re, mi, and so on.

3.How can i use the chord files with the LM piano keyboard for chord training?

-Just stick with what is in the daily curriculum and then any extra exposure to chords from free play is great. You can reinforce those same chords on a piano/keyboard for variety but you do NOT need one if you don't have one already. Sure it's nice to have, but not a requirement.

4.How  can i learn the child  to sing aloud when she is hitting the keys ?

-Model the behavior you want to see in your child, encourage them "okay, now it's time to sing! can you sing DO? (singing) Sing when your child is in the bathtub, when you are out for a walk, before bed, you get the idea. If you mean while hitting the keys of a piano, then just model the behavior you want to see 100% of the time whenever possible.

5.Where can i download the LM colour for printing it out?
In the LMs forum from the thread here http://forum.brillkids.com/little-musician-general-discussion/using-different-colors-for-different-notes-opinions-please!/ You can get any more detailed help you need in that forum.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Here's an update: Yesterday morning we were getting ready for our day and a neighbor's car alarm began to go off outside. Lily said "Hey, that's a So!" I went over to the piano and played the note in time to the car alarm which she thought was hilarious, and sure enough it was a So. Her ear training has worked fabulously.

We also took her to her first day of Yamaha group piano lessons yesterday and it went so well! The instructor was happily shocked at how knowledgeable she is about music, she did so well in class and is thriving with her at home activities. She was able to read both the lyrics and the music in her music book without issue, so the transition to black notes has proved to be fairly seamless. The colors really help with the initial differentiation and I will continue to use them in LMs for fun and visual interest.  I did take the colored notes of off the piano yesterday (although I left them on the other tabletop keyboard upstairs) and she is navigating it so well already without them and she can easily hear any mistakes she makes. They are like training wheels and they really, really helped draw her in and feed her passion for music in the earlier days, now she can express herself on the piano without them. She is also starting to play with all of her fingers, rather than just her index finger.

Owen's ear's are really coming along too, and he is really enjoying playing with his "do-re-mi cars."

Here are some recent music videos of my kids using Little Musician and applying the concepts they learned in the program. WE LOVE LMs!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kbSK539JeVw&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kbSK539JeVw&rel=1</a>


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RfFLv5oYaoM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RfFLv5oYaoM&rel=1</a>


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/IfsUkuTButA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/IfsUkuTButA&rel=1</a>


(Note- the first note is "re" and correctly selected orange, but it sounds like he's saying Ra. He's still working on his speech and things don't always come out clearly!:))

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-OFRChVwJU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/d-OFRChVwJU&rel=1</a>

[aangeles]

They are so adorable and amazing! Thank you so much for the update! Keep them coming!!!      

[evad3]

wow !! i have a question and i hope someone could answer this for me.
does the color the bk-LM use are the same that  piano wizard use????

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