Contents and how to use the Misosofi method
Perfect Pitch series - Three picture-book set
Main book: Contents and how to use
The principal purpose of the Main book is to create interest in music and input. Input is listening to music. By listening to audio many times, it will create an interest in music and learning materials. Listening to audio many times over will educate the ears and develop the basics of musicality and perfect pitch.
The content of the book is a magical story unfolded by the main character, a black cat named Currito with his friends. Along with the story book, the audio consists of many masterpieces from various eras. Please enjoy along with the beautiful illustration by Spanish artist, Juan Gomez Macias.
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Picture book 'Currito in the land of the rainbow' A4 size, 60 pages
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Main book audio
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Main book soundtrack audio
Listen to the audio while reading the picture book or just listen to the audio, depending the schedule of the day and mood of the child. It is important to listen repeatedly over and over.
♪ The audio divided into chapters.
♪ Together the audio is more than 50 minutes long, so it is fine to divide into small sections and listen over time.
♪ If your child shows great interest, it is fine to listen or read all at once.
Character Guide: Contents and how to use
Use the Character Guide for both input and output. Input is listening to music and output is singing. (Please click here for more details about input and output.) Contents of the Character Guide are the introductions of the characters featured in the main book. This is specialized in Perfect Pitch training with listening and singing. Knowing about the characters in the picture books will make it more enjoyable for this series.
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Picture book 'Character Guide' A5 size 32 pages
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Character Guide audio (With narration. For listening with picture book)
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Character Guide soundtrack audio
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Listen to the audio while reading the Character Guide.
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Once the child gets used to listening to audio, let’s sing along with the audio. (Comes with music notes for the songs PDF)
♪ If the parents set an example by singing, the child may be encouraged to follow after you.
♪ To make output training seem like playtime copying each other might help to encourage the child.
♪ As the child gets older and finds it easier to concentrate, set concentrated perfect pitch training periods a few times a week. It has a greater effect if the child sings in front of the parents.
Workbook: Contents and how to use
The Workbook is made principally in preparation for learning instruments and learn to reading notes and rhythm, as well as being able to understand simple musical grammar. Therefore, it is made on the premise of using it for children older than 3 years old, but some children could start at an earlier stage, some could do later. You don’t need to force children to do it but rather start whenever your child is ready. Even though it may seem difficult to do the actual exercise, just listening to the audio helps to develop rhythm and musicality. It can be used at any age for input training (listening to and feeling the rhythm) as well.
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Picture book 'Workbook' A5 size 30 pages
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Workbook audio (With narration. For rhythm practice with work book)
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Workbook easy version audio (For rhythm practice with work book)
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Workbook soundtrack audio
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Listen to the audio while reading the Workbook.
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Once the child gets used to listening to the audio, clap along with the rhythm while listening to the audio.
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When your child finds it difficult to clap along with rhythm, try the Workbook’s easy version. Once the child gets used to clapping along with the easy version, try the Workbook audio again for the rhythm exercise.
♪ 'Workbook audio' comes with full narration but 'Workbook easy version' only comes with the rhythm exercise parts (audio truck number1-38) so please start from Workbook page 7.
How to clap your hands for the rhythm practice
Tan
Rest
Ta-Ah
Audio 'Sing After Me!': Contents and how to use
Audio 'Sing After Me!' (no picture book for this, audio only) is for output training. Copying and singing the sound you hear helps to absorb Perfect Pitch. It is divided into two categories, singing by copying single notes and singing by copying pieces. Also in singing by copying pieces, there are 2 types of singing; one is divided into sections and the other is a complete piece. Moreover, complete pieces are divided into sections and complete pieces. First, start with the easy-to-copy sections and then once the child is capable of doing sections, move on to the complete piece.
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Audio 'Sing After Me!' Repeat single notes
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Audio 'Sing After Me!' For sections and Complete pieces (Beginner, Intermediate)
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Audio 'Sing After Me!' For sections and Complete pieces (Advanced)
*Audio for the complete pieces are divided into sections and complete pieces. It is easier to start from sections.
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First start off with single notes. Listen to audio and copy and sing after you hear the cue 'and'.
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Next try to sing the sections for beginners, then intermediates. Listen to audio and copy and sing after you hear the cue 'and'.
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Next try to sing the sections of complete pieces in the order of beginner then intermediate level. Once your child gets used to singing the sections, try to sing the complete pieces. Listen to the complete piece once. After that, listen to divided sections of the complete piece, and sing after the cue 'and'. Next, listen to the whole complete piece, and copy and sing after the cue 'and'.
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When your child gets used to beginner and intermediate levels, try to challenge them with the advanced level. The advanced complete piece is a longer piece than the beginner and intermediate ones. Copy and sing just as in the beginner and intermediate levels.
♪ It is fine, at the start, to practice for a short time. Once your child gets used to it, increase the time for training.
♪ If the parent sets an example by singing, the child may be encouraged to follow after you.
♪ Make output training seem like playtime to copy each other, that might help to encourage the child.
♪ As the child gets older and finds it easier to concentrate, set concentrated perfect pitch training periods a few times a week. It has a greater effect if the child sings in front of the parents.
♪ Advanced complete pieces are more difficult; please try to repeat many times and take time to be able to sing.
Audio 'What Is This Note?': Contents and how to use
Once you go through all the steps, check how much perfect pitch your child has mastered.
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Audio 'What Is This Note?' Single notes
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Audio 'What Is This Note?' Sections/Complete pieces
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Listen to the audio and answer the note. First start off with single notes. Listen to the audio and recite the note you heard after you hear the cue “and”. Once your child is able to sing more than half the single notes, try the sections/complete pieces. (An answer sheet PDF is available for download.) We suggest to do the test regularly and record how much your child has mastered perfect pitch.
♪ If you feel it is difficult to use test audio at the beginning, and you have a tuned piano or keyboard at home, you can use it to test for single notes.
♪ It is fine if it doesn’t go well at the beginning. It is more important to enjoy the process.
♪ Listening to a lot of music will definitely help to educate ears. Even if your child answers the test perfectly, we suggest to keep listening to playlists and audio.
Playlists: Contents and how to use
You will listen to music in the Playlists in every step, everyday as part of the Misosofi method. Playlists are made from music on YouTube.
The main purpose of the Playlists is for input. Playlists consist of masterpieces played in various genres, instruments and musical performances such as orchestra and big band. We have 30 min, 45 min, 1 hour, and more than 1 hour ones. Please use whichever fits your schedule and the mood of your child.
It is very important to listen to various kinds of music from a young age in order to educate their ears as early as possible, but we often hear from people that they don’t know what to listen to. The playlists have been created to eliminate that problem.
Once the child gets used to listening to music, find the playlist your child likes and listen to it repeatedly. That will educate their ears more. It is fine to listen to the same playlist repeatedly, or listen to a different playlist every time.
You might find you and your child’s favourite music from there. It might be fun to explore to find your favourite music.
How to use Playlists
Please try to listen for 30 min to 1 hour (and more if possible) everyday or as often as possible.
♪ We suggest you use spare time such as traveling by car, during meals and playtime.
About musical key
In the Misosofi method, we adopt the American style musical key.
