One of the joys of being a parent is seeing your kids learn something themselves through the discovery process rather than training. Our son Caleb hasn’t ever had a Piano lesson. Emma and I don’t play the Piano either so he has had to find out for himself how to use it.
He generally finds songs he likes on YouTube or on the back of our CD’s. Once he knows the songs name he searches YouTube for people who play that song using a Piano and learns their keystrokes. It might not be finger choice or timing perfect but I think he is getting the notes right. On the weekend he wanted to get his efforts up on YouTube like the other “Piano People”. Being a parent who wants to encourage kids to create content I helped him upload a video taken from an iPhone into my YouTube account. So here’s Caleb playing Clocks by Coldplay…
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Nice work Marc, and congrats Caleb – you did well…
I’m a terrible site reader and tended to learn music by ear (despite a few years of formal piano lessons_ – It’d be worth getting Caleb lessons – hell, my wife would teach him (oh yeah, there’s that minor distance thing…)
If music be the food of love, play on…
@ben he’s actually got me keen to learn
This is so fabulous! It’s so great to watch children gravitate “naturally” to their talents. We spend so much time shoving stuff in their face, we don’t give them much time to explore themselves… what a wonderful accomplishement for Caleb !!
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