A few quotes for positive corrections:
* Can you remembe that? If you forget can I remind you?
* This is right, this is not right. This is how to fix it.
* How far can you play in this position (fingering, poster and position)
* Demonstrate then ask, can you do it like that?
Here a few ideas she calls, a Teacher's Bag of Tricks
- Demonstration: Be the best possible model. Play with the child, maintain tempo, mold the hand.
- Play on the arm, back and shoulders to demonstrate the feeling of the depth of keys, weight. Have then play on your arm.
- Ready-Play: For example to use with changes in dynamics, for example forte (freeze) piano in La Turka, Mozart in Book 7; prepare for the chord.
- Repetition: take small manageable steps, small sections
- Muscle Memory: Child plays with eyes closed. She gives the example of Michael Phelps swimming; the race when he couldn't see but he remembered how many strokes to get to the end of the lane.
- Ghost playing: trains silent playing and auralizing/ audiate in the brain.
- Solfege singing: solfege everytune in book 1
- Simplify Terminology: When introducing octaves play Twinkle C high and low; say octopus, octagon an octave!
- Music Mind Games: make music theory interactive at http://www.young-musicians.com/
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