Ball rolls and ball bounces

A student who is learning for less than a month was playing all his songs from the Alfred Premier's Lesson Book musically.

Realising that his posture need corrections, I ask him to curve his fingers like a ball. The ball rolls , and the finger press down the keys beginning with the thumb, to the next, until it finish off on little finger. Repeating this we roll the ball a few times at different keys for both hands.

The hand curve - which is the ball flattens pretty often. Next we bounced the ball. As all the fingers descend into the keys like a firm bounce, the curve was better. This is a good exercise for beginners to get used to the correct hand position.

This boy loves the music in his book. Today we try to play more music without the book. I guide him to write a four sentence stanza of things he likes. We read the little poem and add some rhythm to it.

As we go along, we come to the lesson book that introduce the 7 alphabets on keyboard. Singing the alphabet song to the "Twinkle twinkle little star" was indeed fun for a 6 year old child. He loves it. Next we sing only the first 7 letters repeatedly to the same tune. Next we draw a set of 3 white teeth and beside it a set of 4 white teeth. Next we add the black keys and he fill in the letters with AB starting before the set of 2 black keys.