The Rewards of Teaching Very Young Piano Students
I want to share with you a very special story about Kyle. I would love to share his picture with you, but I have not found a way to post it on this site. Hopefully I will be able to share pictures with you sometime in the future
Kyle started taking piano lessons from me when he was four and a half. His beginning books were the two introduced to you on this site. He loved the animals and enjoyed his lessons. In late summer of 2006 he turned seven.
After his piano recital in early November Kyle brought me his new Christmas book and asked me to teach him all the song before Christmas so he could play them during the holidays and have his family sing along with him. He was so excited. I showed him that there were a lot of songs and they were going to be more difficult than last year, but he was determined. Some weeks he had to study three songs to reach his goal, and did really great on every one of them. What a joy it was to watch his face as he mastered the songs and felt the success in his efforts. The greatest joy came when his mother called to tell me how proud he was and how much joy the family had at their Holiday Song Feast.
Thanks to the animals, Kyle reads notes very well for his age and he also has a good understanding of timing. I want to encourage you to try these books with young children you want to teach piano too. I am delighted with the success they have brought to my students.
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