I’ve given piano lessons for the last 20 years or so, and I’ve never met a 9 year old kid who impressed me as much as my new student did earlier today.
After a while, you kind of know where to start with different age brackets, so I went in thinking “He’s 9, his mother says he has slight autism, and he’s never played a piano/keyboard before”
Well, I threw all that out of the window within 10 minutes of him sitting down at the keys. I threw some general information about note names, locations, numbering his fingers for scales… and that was it. He retained it. Like a freaking Rain Man. Never forgot a word I said the whole lesson.
By the end of his hour, he was playing chords on his left hand, and Mary Had a Little Lamb lead on his right. I mean, he’s still obviously new at it, and quite young… but he was asking me for homework till next week. He had great finger dexterity and independent usage of all 10 digits.
Sorry to blab on, I’ve never left a lesson so impressed with a kid in my life. I’m starting him on sheet music next lesson. I’m hoping to keep him entertained enough to stay with it.
Really is. I haven’t been excited for a new student in a long time. And I know everyone is different, and learns at their own pace, but he’s got the mind for it.
