This year Cade begged to be a part of my Halloween piano recital. I really think he is too young to have one on one lessons, but I didn't want to squash his interest. He picked out a piece called "Shout Boo." I taught it to him by rote whenever he was interested, and we played it as a duet. I have a video of it - but you can't hear a sound on it, because David was screaming the whole time......I'll have to try it again. Cade did a great job, and it was fun for us to play together. I had to keep explaining to my students and parents that even though his piece sounded really hard - he learned it by rote - not by reading.......It was a good first exposure to piano for him though. We'll see if he stays interested or not - but I'm decidedly not going to push. If he wants to play great - but I'm not forcing him. I've had one too many miserable students who didn't want to be there. I won't put any other teacher through that!
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