I posted a little while ago that we were starting DD on piano lessons, the music school was really pushing it for her.
It has been going well and she seems to really be into the piano but I am really thinking the logic of starting a child just 4.
Each week he keeps moving up the challenge, she practices and seems up to it, except for...her hands are too small.
He gave her a piece last week, first one where she has to use all fingers and both hands. The left hand is a five key span chord. Her hand can only do 4 keys. He realized at the lesson and asked her to try. She can barely reach 5 keys, but really impossible to play a 5 key span chord. He said, where there is a will there's a way, because she just reached it. But her fingers touch the inner keys and I am thinking this is ridiculous.
Also, he was pushing for her to do a recital before Christmas. First of all, I do not see the point. DD does not really want to do it. And I have to think about why we are doing it. He is an excellent teacher otherwise for a 4 year old. She has learned so much.
She seems to really like it, often stops at the piano and plays a piece, without asking. And has a good ear, but the time out of her day at this age, seems like a lot, though it is only 15 minutes of practice. I guess it is that inner voice about them being childhood is so fleeting.
I guess it like taking her to this gymnastics class last week. They put her in the 5-7 for some reason. They were on teh trampoline doing these exercises, and it was tough. Though she had a blast. The instructor was not so thrilled she was there because she really didn't have the strength or size. At one point the instructor had her lie on the trampoline, and they jumped, DD flew into the air and the instructor caught her. Of course she had a blast.
Maybe these fit with her need to be challenged. Maybe I am just writing because I don't know what else to do with myself. Probably the last.
Ren
