Ear training at home: 10 minutes a day with your child
What really develops a child’s musical ear, in which order to practise (singing, listening, writing) and how to shape ten daily minutes so the child wants to come back tomorrow.
Guides
Short texts for parents and students: what really works in ear training and how to practise at home a few minutes a day.
Intervals by ear: which songs help and in what order to learn them
How a child tells a third from a fourth: song associations, the order from easiest to hardest, and the trap most parents fall into.
Chords by ear: from “happy and sad” to diminished, augmented and inversions
Major and minor are “happy” and “sad”, but that stops working in grade 3. How to move from mood to hearing the lower third, how to practise inversions by listening to the bass, and when to add the dominant seventh.
Reading music for kids: treble clef, bass clef and a way to learn them in two weeks
How to teach a child to read notes without counting lines from the bottom: landmark notes, practising the bass clef separately, five-minute games and what accidentals mean.
Rhythmic dictation at home: so the child feels the beat instead of guessing
Rhythm is half the marks in every dictation and the easiest thing to practise: no instrument, just clapping. Rhythm syllables, the metronome, dotted eighths and syncopation step by step.