[quote=ColinsMum] But he wouldn't necessarily pick up his Clementi Sonatina books and start cranking them out.
Oh my gosh, Clementi's Sonatinas were my favourite!!
My DD7 is PG and we just started her in piano last year. She 'gets' it, as her piano teacher says... she just doesn't care too much about it. She memorizes the notes in about 2 minutes and then plays without looking at the music. Sometimes she gets note value and rhythm right, sometimes not. But she picks up on new concepts really quickly. She wants to play the violin so badly. We had hoped to get 2 years of piano before viloin but now we are rethinking that. Maybe that would motivate her? Who knows?
I try really hard to stay away when she is practicing piano. It drives her crazy when I point things out and it drives me crazy when she won't read the music. It is better all the way around if Dad practices with her!
