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ChristmasCarol

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Positive Stories from lessons

on: January 27, 2005, 02:06:58 PM

We all tend to use this forum to discuss problems. I'd love to hear from you some really cool moment you experienced in recent lessons. I'll go first. Yesterday I started a six year old boy. No musicians in house. He figured out Ode to Joy, the first few notes of Fur Elise, Mary Had a LIttle Lamb in F Sharp, and had a little 8 note piece he composed. So I said to this adorable little toot, "You have a piano up here, and I pointed to my forehead, and I'll teach you how to make your fingers play what's up here." He very quietly said to me, "I have a piano in my heart". Melted me on the spot.

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whynot

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Re: Positive Stories from lessons

Reply #1 on: January 28, 2005, 03:09:49 AM

Well, that should elicit tears all over the world, including at my house. I did have a pretty cute little girl a while back who also came to me playing very well by ear. I've always done so, too, but I don't know how to explain how I do it, and I wanted to see if she could put it into words. So I asked her how she knew what notes to play. She said, "Well, I think about how it sounds, and then I play it." Indeed.