DD is in the "Russian" method. They look down on Suzuki. Interesting that I met a violinist who learned on Suzuki and said it was very hard for her to learn to read music in that method.
So the pieces she plays are in the Russian piano books. The easy pieces we have for this summer are in book 2. She does a lot of Studies. And I do supervise, otherwise, she would just play the way she wants to play, super fast, without regard to dynamics.
And I think we are getting over the hump. Yesterday, I went to the spa and her father worked with her and he said she had this "block" and then it was gone and everything went very easily and she remembered it like she had been doing it for years. So it was just mind over matter.
Ren
