yesterday's mini concert saw four children performing music
concert was a short one, about half an hour
I started with rhythm stepping, had all the kids follow the five year old girl..
she was a little shy at first
then we started with the playing
she has a piano at home but opted to use the stagea during concert, she gets to use variety of sounds
she just turned five and she played three songs
next up, my eight year old kid..she's currently in group lesson but comes to me for individual checking
not so strong as the others but she dished up three songs too
then it was my turn to play..I played If you're happy and let the audience (parents and children) clap and we proceed to percussion playing which was new to my individual students
my two ten year olds, good friends and classmates played a duet piece titled Daisies and Buttercups
after many slips during practice, they managed the whole song without any mistakes =)
one of them played a piece from her book and another pop song titled Have I Told You Lately
she missed a chord halfway through and ............
finally, the other girl played another piece and wrapped up with Old MacDonald ensemble, with teacher imitating the sound of the strings instruments on the electone and the audience singing chicken, duck, cat, dog...
well, it was a very short mini concert so I ask everyone to dance again, this time the youngest girl wasn't shy anymore..
after getting their gifts for a job well done, I was wondering what to do with the other now 15 minutes left
in the end I resumed my lesson with the five year old
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musical and rhythm training need to be trained be it young or an elderly person. It must be ongoing once it starts.
This is what I notice. Last week, I attended a concert which involves singing and clapping.
I attended the rehearsal, at the time the singer sang very well
during the concert, he sang two tones up..and once he started, he couldn't switched back two tones down, I noticed he tried his best to switch
and during clapping from audience, I notice a couple sitting beside me was clapping off beat
I still remember I started music lessons at five, had an assessment at seven and the examiner circled my hearing as not accurate. That time I couldn't distinguished do note and so note
my teacher took me to a recording studio when I was eleven. Eek, I sounded terrible, no emotion just singing the words and some notes not really pitched
years go by, I'm now more sensitive to music, a critic probably
Some parents like to see their children progressed quickly
I'm glad my parents didn't pushed me, they let me grow by myself, they do forced me to practise when I don't feel like practising,
I took eleven years of training before I started independently playing my eletone without being pestered and enjoying all the different music that I listen from Chopin to Justin Bieber
