Soft Mozart requires the use of a computer and at least a 61 key midi keyboard. Amazon has several midi keyboard options for less than $100.

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Students interact directly with the Grand Staff and are able to make sense of it. In addition, students are in control of their own learning. We keep track of timing and correct notes played out of total notes, so students are able to see even the smallest progress. This creates internal motivation. We are constantly training the eyes, hand-eye co-ordination, both hands co-ordination, and attention span. 

We're not like everyone else. If we were like everyone else, we'd get the results everyone else gets. We believe there is something wrong with all forms of music education and it starts with motivation and memory.

New learners only have so much short term memory available to them. In the beginning, students are learning to focus, they have to learn the geography of the piano. they need to interact with the Grand Staff. Why this emphasis on proper fingering?

Someone will say, "So that they student doesn't have to go back and relearn it." Ahh, you mean like when publishers put out new piano books with all new fingering? Hands grow with age. Learners become more adept at fingering as they become more comfortable on the piano. We let students work that out for themselves. And they do.  We give them exercises that develop finger management in a way that works for their hands.

Besides, if your student becomes dependent on the teacher or book for proper fingering, how will they ever pick up a piece of music and just play if the proper fingering isn't written out for them?

You need one subscription per station. If you have 3 children and all children share the same computer and keyboard station, you need one subscription. If you would like add another station, you need to add another subscription.

Soft Mozart and the Soft Mozart Academy is designed to take a student from toddler, we recommend age 2, to an advanced learner. The songs library contains 9 levels of difficulty. Completion of the Soft Mozart Academy is the equivalent of a 4 year music degree in the Russian tradition.

Absolutely. Course work and lessons are provided for 9 months of study per year. If your student keeps a progress diary, and a music notebook, you will have enough documentation for both primary and secondary education credits. Soft Mozart provides certificates of completion for each level of the academy. 

It is a myth that beginners MUST start with the piano in order to develop correctly. This myth originated from the elitism and conservatism of modern piano education that focused only on raising of a few concert performers. In reality, playing on any other musical instrument, including the piano keyboard, can only improve the piano performance of your child.

We recommend that children start learning the piano with the piano keyboard. The regular piano is very physically challenging for beginners, because it requires physical strength along with advanced coordination and perfect orientation on the piano keys.

The majority of problems with piano techniques start with the lack of confidence in beginners. When the student has built his eye-hand-fingers coordination by playing on the piano keyboard, the task of mastering the "hard touch" of the real piano is much easier to handle. Freedom and flexibility appear gradually with the confidence of the student. Mozart started with the harpsichord, when he was three, it has the touch of a modern keyboard. It didn't hurt him at all!