Piano lesson

We have had our digital piano since Christmas, but no real playing has ever happened except for some carols and scales by Priscilla. The auto-play function has filled our house with delicious music, countering the improvised sounds from the children. Yesterday Priscilla started to teach Abigail from "Teaching Little Fingers to Play" (1932). Oldie but still good. We leafed through the book and Abigail was interested in the inclusion of a carol that she knew "Good King Wenceslas". Also the duets and playing 2 notes in one hand.

Abigail learnt eagerly, using her first 3 fingers on both hands. She discovered the Cs and the names of the white notes. We talked about beats and different shapes of notes for different numbers of beats. She was a bit confused over the fingering numbers and the counting of the beats. Abigail was keen to keep going with the lessons in the book but Priscilla decided that the first 2 lessons in a day was enough.

Today in the morning Abigail played on the toy keyboard the notes and tunes she had learnt yesterday - all with the correct locations and fingering. Later she tried to teach Por Por the tunes and opened the music book and piano for practising. (Of course Pascale copied while playing her own stuff.)