Thanks, I will look for it. Kep us posted on how it develops.
We shared the free report on “Is Music a Birthright?”(http://www.brillkids.com/ext/partners/ebook-free-download-2.php) that gives some perspective the challenges of learning music, and their roots, some of which was brought out in our discussions. SoftMozart has some similar, more in depth articles on the origins and challenges of traditional music notation as well, the summary of which you can see in this thread
What I also added, in a different section, to try and give some perspective of the range of approaches and choices, is a series of posts about the four common approaches to learning piano (up to now). I believe that our methods, both Hellene of SoftMozart and Piano Wizard Academy, begin to shape a “fifth way”. What is important to appreciate is they were both developed in response to something that was not really working, in the context of the limitations of the other approaches, trying to compensate for those gaps and yet leverage their strengths. Though each method has its advocates and champions, including Hellene and I for our own, and those advocates can be as we have seen quite passionate and compelling, NONE OF THESE APPROACHES IS PERFECT. We do strive to honestly “perfect” our process every day, with more and more knowledge, and this forum has been I think very fruitful in its exploration of the options. Here is my latest contribution to that conversation.
I don’t know how many parents are following all this, but I can tell you if you are, you are now MUCH more knowledgeable about both the challenges of music education, and the pallet of options available, and I hope it helps you all find your own unique solution to your children’s needs, and leads to a less dogmatic, more practical, efficient and fun way to bring music into their lives.
It’s not for your kids, as a learning method using colors, but it’s for every amateur or total beginner like me, who would like to learn for free, online, how to play keyboard:
http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca/
This guy, a young piano teacher, Andrew Furmanczyk, has a channel on youtube too. He has created free playing piano lessons and free music theory lessons. His style is funny too. His life story is interesting and heartbreaking at times, also encouraging.
Only in few days of watching, learning and practicing from his lesson I have started to learn a lot!
Hope this helps someone. I use the method cause I got a Casio (midi and all) keyboard as a present (and I still don’t have the money for a method for my kid to learn piano using colors, games etc - either PW or SM). My son loves to touch and hear the notes.
Blessings,
Andrea