Another Song
Recently I wrote another song for one of my young students. This is a pre-reading piece for the sets of 3 black keys. I really don’t like how some books have practice for only one of the 2 hands. For this particular student I am using Bastien’s Piano for the Young Beginner. There are things I like about it and things I do not. I like the pictures because they are fun and my student loves them and I like many of the drills such as playing the piece on your arm first. I don’t like how they have many pieces for only one hand but no pieces for the other. A five-year-old student is still developing some of the fine motor skills required to play piano and it would be nice to practice using both hands. I also don’t like how it is going to have him playing in the Middle C position for quite awhile. I will be writing him a lot of stuff as well as I have been looking into getting him another book just for the pieces that are not in middle C position.
The only other thing I would say is I wish it had one more book with songs that are fun to play and sound nice. I know he is only 5 and cannot always sit at the piano for 30 minutes at a time but because there is a theory book and a lesson book he would only be playing for 3 to 5 minutes at the most if I didn’t bring in more stuff for him. So I’ve been writing some short and fun little songs for him to add to his practice.
Here is The Crazy Kangaroo .
