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« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2012, 08:46:31 PM »

Your video was very inspiring- I'll be sharing it!  I'm feeling very ashamed that a couple of days ago I was so keen on winning a debate with you, and I was too proud.  My husband is more cool headed than I am, and now I can see that I needed to first pull the beam out of my own eye, so to speak.  You are an amazing person, Hellene.  (By the way, my first name is Helen, and that's my 3-year-old's name too.  smile

Tamsyn, don't blame yourself! It is 'lost in translation' situation. Since English is my third language, I am writing by blindly translating from Russian most of the time. I am told by my team that I have enough representatives already to communicate with English speaking community, but I also want to learn how to and I am trying. Hope to be better in communication and believe that our life is given to us for learning and improving.

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Thanks for the video with Rachel about relative pitch.

You are welcome! Rachel is our brillkids baby and life is so beautiful and surprising thing! I met Pei Lin (Rachel's mom) at a time, when (due to my miscommunication) I was banned from this forum. Pei Lin than lived in Houston and Rachel was a tiny baby. It was very comforting for me to meet with them and to handle Pei Lin my program. After the initial meeting I was even more happy to learn that this 'seed' was not planted in a dry soil. When Rachel came to receive classes she started to develop very fast, because apparently Pei Lin was exposing her to the software just the way I taught her! The results are amazing even for me!

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If I do Soft Mozart with my kids, are there images to represent letter names? 

Yes! If you press A on computer, all the names in the games and piano pieces will be Alphabetical. Letter 'I' - everything will be switched to icons (Solfeggio)
 
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I saw a few butterflies, which is why I ask. 

Butterfly is a character in the game that shows that the note played correctly and have to be changed for the next. It also shows, where the finger(s) of player.

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Could I use Soft Mozart without using the fixed Do aspect of it? 

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I'm thinking I could, but I wonder if you have students who use it that way, or what kind of road blocks I would encounter.

Yes, I do! Many students from Germany, Canada, USA, China use ABC system.

You may try to download our Demo (Ode to Joy) from TRY NOW page. There also popular NOTE DURATION game: https://softmozart.com/teaching/how-to-get-started/try-it-for-yourself.html

But the most important thing is: we have many ways to help and support music teachers, we give away scholarships, discounts for them. We also support learners. Our 'business' model is close to Academy that supports teachers and good students.

Many teachers afraid that if their students will buy our program, they will loose their business. It is not true! Every person, when learn something successfully, wants to learn more. The software teaches to play notes. But to make music is a privilege of teacher. This is why we created Forum and network for some learners, who has no Soft Mozart teachers. They are getting helped on line.

Overall, it is really fun, bright and multilingual community.  Kids having on line recital and getting motivation to lean more pieces. By watching this flourishing, I have my hopes up to see it spreading and growing as global community.  

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« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2012, 10:38:14 PM »

Thank you again.  You'll probably be seeing me over on your forum in the near future.   Wink

I think I get what you are talking about with the eye-focus now.  This video did a great job explaining it to me.  The illustration with the keyboard with the arrows showing what the eye has to do when they first start music was especially helpful.  I just had to dig a little deeper...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6bUeNO6U7tI&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6bUeNO6U7tI&rel=1</a>

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« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2012, 11:14:40 PM »

This has been an interesting discussion.  I hope I don't derail it, but I wanted to post specifically on the topic of "Moveable Do" and I think this is the place to do it.

I bought Tamsyn's Solfege Train and just started reading her explanation of Moveable Do the other day.  I am one of those piano students whose only exposure to Solfege was The Sound of Music.  I only learned a little theory and remember hardly any of it, and I can only play basic songs.  But I enjoy piano and want my kids to play too.

So, after reading about Moveable Do, I sat down to calm my 3 month old down by playing the piano with her on my lap.  When my older daughter was born, I learned the Solfege note names in the Fixed Do system: C=Do, etc.  But I never learned the sharps and flats and my book of children's songs is mostly not in C major, so I gave up singing in Solfege.  The day I read about Moveable Do, the piano book was open to "Clementine," in F major.  Since I could only play the melody line while holding a baby, I tried to sing along with F as Do.  It was pretty easy.  After singing it one time, I moved my hand and tried to play it with C as Do.  I did it!  There were some pauses and fumbles, but I did transpose a piece of music!  I never thought I would be able to transpose.  This blew me away.

So for those of you in the US, where we have letter names for the notes which give most of the benefits of the fixed Do system, try out moveable Do.  That was so cool.  It gave me an ability, in about fifteen minutes, that I never would have thought possible.  Tamsyn, I really hope you will share your moveable Do LMs files.  We're only on Day 12, so there's no rush, but I would love to teach this to my daughter.

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« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2012, 11:58:22 PM »

Thank you again.  You'll probably be seeing me over on your forum in the near future.   Wink

I think I get what you are talking about with the eye-focus now.  This video did a great job explaining it to me.  The illustration with the keyboard with the arrows showing what the eye has to do when they first start music was especially helpful.  I just had to dig a little deeper...

Tamsyn, you are amazing!

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« Reply #34 on: November 19, 2012, 04:11:11 PM »

Thank you for sharing your story, Wolfwind!  I'm so excited that you were able to have that experience.   smile
I will definitely be sharing my movable Do LMS files.  When I finally make them that is. LOL.  We're on lesson 60, so the countdown has started to when I will really be needing them.  It's going to take a lot of work to get it set up, but once I have the basic files in place, it will be really easy to change the lessons around.  It would be nice if I could get them done sooner than later though, because we sing the nursery rhymes in the "Play and Edit" section, and are limited to the ones in C major, for the time being.

What I need to do is make an icon set for F and G major particularly.  I need to record new sound files, one for letter names, and then again for solfege F and G.  It's not that hard, I've just been busy.  Once the icon sets and sound files are in place, I'll just need to manually change each lesson by editing which icon and sound file is used.  Sooner would be better than later...
I'm excited to have another member to do movable do with.  I also can't wait to meet you in person soon.   yes

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