a dozen a day

A couple of weeks ago my daughter started having piano lessons. I don’t intend to document her progress regularly here, but the experience of watching someone starting out is proving fascinating. It’s all so far in the past now that I didn’t appreciate just how many bits and pieces there are to take on board for the first time, before you reach even a very simple level: learning where the notes are, playing with both hands at once, playing two notes together with the same hand, and triple time are some of the recent ones we’ve dealt with. We are using John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course (which wasn’t around in my time) and A Dozen a Day (which definitely was).