Tuesday, April 20, 2004
We brought the keyboard home from church so Benny could play with it. Two days ago we were sitting in the office and Benny was playing the keyboard in the front room and I heard him trying to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We both sat and listened as Benny worked at picking it out by ear on the keyboard. HE CAN PLAY THE WHOLE THING! And in the right key (for violin) starting on A. He can also now play the A major scale and also "Allegro" which is another song in book 1 -- both of these things he picked out himself by ear without help. Right at this very moment he is playing variation A of Twinkle and he's playing two simultaneous notes -- A and the other note -- which is how the kids first learned the "Tuka Tuka Stop Stop" variation -- by playing "Only on the A String" while we played Twinkle. Amazing. SO CHARMING. SO DELIGHTFUL!!!!!! The only thing I have contributed to these efforts is a short explanation of sharps and how the black keys are the sharps and flats.
