I absolutely love teaching piano. I love getting to talk to other people during the day. I love watching kids progress. I love feeling like I'm making a difference and training new piano players, since I guess I was brought up to believe that piano playing is an essential element of being well-rounded - at the very least, it's extremely useful.
But, I think the best part about teaching piano is that it's made Olivia interested in it. She likes to sit at the piano with a book in front of her and play on the keys. She's also picked up a few other choice phrases that she likes to coach us with while we play piano:
- All cows eat grass! (over and over, giggling)
- This is C (playing a note that is rarely C)
- One more time. That's perfect.
- Play this measure.
- Take the repeat.
- I'm putting a star right here.
- What note is this? (pointing at the sheet music) It's G!
I guess when she starts repeating, "Why won't you rotten kids practice?!?" I'll know it's time to quit.
