<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Arioso7&#039;s Blog (Shirley Kirsten)]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://arioso7.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[arioso7: Shirley Kirsten]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://arioso7.wordpress.com/author/arioso7/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[From Pop to Bach, A 9-yr old makes it over&nbsp;easy]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Fritz, a sparkling kid who loves football, soccer, and video games especially where he&#8217;s devising offensive field strategies, comes to the piano with bundles of energy.</p>
<p>These can be channeled into a piece he&#8217;s gung ho to learn, like &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221; by Sheehan, O&#8217;Dononghue, Adams, and Barry.</p>
<p>As it played out, Fritz&#8217;s mom, downloaded &#8220;Hall&#8221; one afternoon, after son went nuts over it.</p>
<p>Why not learn it, I thought, if Fritz kept to a program of Scales, Arpeggios, and an infusion of Baroque and Classical era piano literature.</p>
<p>Seems we&#8217;re all on the same page.</p>
<p><strong>Video 1 Practicing &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221; without pedal</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Video 2  Fritz and I go over pedaling &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p>Fritz practices Anna Magdalena Bach Minuet in G</p>
<p><strong>Video 3, Fritz plays through first section, &#8220;Hall of Fame,&#8221; experimenting with added pedal</strong></p>
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<p><strong>FRITZ&#8217;s Discography</strong><br />
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A 9-yr old Composes</strong></p>
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Fritz, 7 composes &#8220;Finding Gold&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p><a href="https://arioso7.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/piano-students-as-composers-stimulating-a-creative-teaching-environment/">https://arioso7.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/piano-students-as-composers-stimulating-a-creative-teaching-environment/</a></p>
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