As you can see, the practice points go around the outside and a portion of the web gets filled in as each point is covered. There are lots of flies caught in the web but the ones that are free are fighting for their friends with missiles!
We're working on learning the minor scales at the moment. My son learns them by starting with the first note, then working his way up by listening to what sounds right. As a non-musical person, it's quite amazing to me how one set of notes will sound right and even one out of place sounds wrong. I know there's an explanation for this but the fact is that even without knowing why, we can all independently and without having been taught, agree on what sounds correct and what doesn't. Humans are a quite remarkable species.
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates this to audiences regularly:
An added interest to practice is my son's teacher's use of this site: http://www.dropbox.com/ She uploads video demonstrations of practice points for her students to use. It's extremely useful to view these during piano time. Of course there's the novelty of doing something a bit different, but my son's piano teacher is the one who can play the piano, I can't. It's so much easier to simply show him a video than try to explain what the desired goal is.
I was really disappointed not to be able to get tickets to this:
World-renowned concert pianist Lang Lang invited children to audition to play in a special concert of fifty grand pianos on stage at once. Five hundred children sent in videos of themselves playing and one hundred were chosen. The title of the endeavour was 'Lang Lang Inspires'. I imagine all those children participating and watching the event will be enormously inspired to continue with their learning and enjoyment of music.
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