A Little Unsolicited Advice On Becoming A Better Parent From Yours Truly
Do you want your children to be happy and successful in life?
THEN TEACH THEM MUSIC!
If you don’t believe me, then Google the many studies that have been done to support my assertion.
How am I going to teach them music you ask? Maybe you are musically illiterate. Maybe you never played an instrument. Maybe you don’t consider yourself a good singer. Well none of that matters now. Anyone, children as young as 2 and grandparents as young as 103, can learn to play and read music with my system – “Soft Way To Mozartâ€.
What is so special about my program? For starters, it is the ONLY system in the world that can do this. It is the secret to not just playing piano, but to all music literacy and education world wide.
You are saying that sounds to good to be true. Let me explain.
My system is based on the same system that the Russian School of Music has used for the last 100 years. The only difference is that my system uses technology. And now the Russian School of Music is beginning to use my system. Now that is serious validation which I am honored to accept.
Never heard of the Russian School of Music? It is little like Julliard, the US Flagship of music instruction in New York City, with a few small differences:
Julliard Russsian School of Music
Requires prior private lessons Start from scratch
Only accepts prodigies Beginners accepted
4 year program 16 year program
Julliard is a great school with many accomplished alumni, but the point is Julliard only teaches prodigies. Julliard is not interested in the non prodigies, which leaves out whole lot of people. Julliard starts with a seedling and a strong one at that, to grow the tree. The Russian School of Music starts with just the seed to grow the tree.
So what about all those non-prodigies? Most never make it to music school and if they do, those music schools “BEGIN†by teaching them how to play a desired instrument, which is like teaching someone how to read without understanding what they are reading or saying. The Russian School of Music on the other hand “begins†by teaching students how to listen and to hear.
To teach students to hear, the Russian School of Music has two requirements that are unique to the approach:
- Academic Solfeggio. This subject is exceeding ‘Solfeggio’ (that most of us know as ‘sounds of music’ from the famous movie) a little, because it ultimately teaches to:
- hear the music text with inner hearing,
- be able to write music down,
- be able to pick up any tune by ear
- pick up the accompaniment to any melody
- creatively change any music through notation and by ear (for example, if a melody is in an “uncomfortable†range for a voice, you are taught to transpose it (or to play from any key on the piano).
I didn’t list all of the advantages that Academic Solfeggio teaches students!
The Academic Solfeggio gives every person a real music education, promotes personal cultural development, and develops music erudition and a creative mind. This subject is the essence of ear training through a variety of activities based on piano skills.
Now it is time to explain, what piano skills are from the Russian Music School point of view.
- General Piano. We all have some idea what piano lessons are all about, right? But in the Russian School of Music, there is “professional piano†and “general piano,†and these are two different subjects! You may want to be a performer or not; you may want to play any other instrument - recorder or even percussion, but you must learn to play the piano on top of that. The General Piano is not meant for a student to perform on stage, but for an absolutely different reason: every student learns the best that each school in the world had created with his/her hands on.
The training to hear starts with personal experience to sight-read different scores written by others. Through direct application and involvement of our eyes, ears, voice and touch we perceive music information more effectively.
You may be saying now that all this sound right, but 16 years is a long time. That’s where my method, Soft Mozart comes into play. Soft Mozart incorporates interactive technology to teach Academic Solfeggio using the piano as the primary instrument.
There is more! It is also the interactive technology that allows Soft Mozart to shine a bright halogen light on the fact that the lines and space of the Grand Staff have a direct visual correlation to the piano keys.
You can find any music material in piano transcription: operatic arias, symphonies, jazz, pop, rock . . . By reading all these different types of music on the piano, your child is learning how to hear and understand music as a language, and he or she receives the freedom to choose what he or she wants to listen to. In todays’ world, without music literacy, our children are over exposed to pop and rock (except The Nutcracker at Christmas time, of course!)
The Academic Solfeggio as well as General Piano ought to be taught in every public school. It is vitally important for your child to have these subjects, the earlier, the better!
Is it going to happen any time soon? Not likely. The system of education sometimes can be very slow.
This is exactly why I created “Soft Mozart†- The solution to the problem!
First and foremost, Soft Mozart is based on the Russian School of Music, and this is exactly why I pay such a great deal of attention to the Soft Mozart curriculum development, where I have integrated Academic Solfeggio and General Piano in the learning process to create the most natural, well-rounded educational environment. The visual and Interactive software is the tool that helps to brings all these elements together so your child can read, write down, transpose, sing and play music in order to develop his or her brilliance through music education.
Soft Mozart is not just developing fine motor skills (even though it provides such skills extremely effectively), it teaches music literacy in the deepest way possible. This is exactly why Soft Mozart students are winning piano competitions - they are trained properly to listen to themselves and others. Soft Mozart students are fully prepared to lead a culturally rich successful lives, knowing full well what they want and how to get it.
Today my research is officially buttressed by the academic music world in Russia. One of the first schools that endorsed my findings is the [St. Petersburg State Conservatory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Conservatory. Peter Tchaikovsky graduated from this school, and I couldn’t feel more honored.
Your child is growing very fast. What kind of parents are you? What kind of future do you want for your children? Do you want them to learn how to talk – or do you want them to learn to talk, think and hear what others have to say? Do you want them to be obedient – or do you want them to be intelligent citizens who act upon there own accord.
Make the Soft Mozart decision today. Your child is waiting!