Caleb has been taking piano lessons now for 2 whole months. Our question is; do you notice a difference in the way he is now playing, or do you see an improvement? We do! Here he is on that song he's been learning, now completing the whole thing and with much better timing:
Finally we have a found a piano teacher for our piano player Caleb! After these last 2 years of just teaching himself to play, he will finally have a real teacher to help him get even better!
Caleb has been accepted by one of the best. He is now taking piano lessons weekly up at the University from one of the directors of piano who is a concert pianist herself. She is extremely talented and we are happy Caleb is lucky enough to have her.
Caleb is an interesting student. He already knows how to play most things but he has never learned proper hand position and technique. He has always had his own way of playing any song and of course his own sense of rhythm.
So, now the challenge begins......we will see if his talent of playing songs can be improved by actually playing them the "right" way....
Caleb plays this song just to humor his mommy. She calls it her "Nocturne of Happiness" song. He is such a good boy to play songs for his mommy even if they aren't his favorites.
Caleb loves to play the Name That Tune Game. Here is a new song he is working on, see if you can guess the name. (You can tell his little hands can't reach the back and forth of the bottom hand notes, so it's a little choppy moving his hand up and down, but I bet you can still guess it.)
Now this is a pretty new song on the radio, so if you're not up to speed with what's on the radio, then you might not get this one. He liked it from someone on American Idol singing it.
We told Caleb how his Aunt Rachel wanted to learn how to play the piano and so she would listen to Fur Elise on Grandma Mary's player piano until she figured out how to play it herself.
