Friday, September 25, 2009

Piano Lessons

The other day we received a beginners' piano book for the boy. He's gonna follow in his father and sister's footsteps and learn to play - hopefully. He does have an ear for it - he enjoys grading his sister and father on their piano playing "B+" he might say after a song, or "Only 5 mistakes"...

I've always wanted to play the piano - but can't read music and have no inclination to learn - so my piano playing will be vicariously. Next best thing to playing the piano yourself, is having everyone else in your family playing it.

While in the basement I heard a lot of piano playing and foot pounding...turns out the boy asked the girl to teach him to play and the past couple of days she's been teaching him. The foot pounding is the boy's frustration when he messes up...

The girl has learned a lot in the past year...it was about a yr ago at this time that we bought a keyboard and she learned to read music. I think it was in December when we bought the piano. She can play (select) hymns well enough for our family to sing along to and has been working on "Think of Me" from "Phantom of the Opera".

2 comments:

CanadianGrandma said...

I'm sure that your son will do well and you will too !

Christine said...

the kids sound like they enjoy and want to play and that is the key, no pun intended. My daughter played for 11 years and beautifully. My son played for at least 5 years. They quit last year and haven't touched the piano since! They didn't seem to mind the lessons, but maybe there was no love of it.