Piano Lessons

So, I've been sort of dragging my feet on putting Samantha in piano lessons. Partially due to there not being a time slot open to make this happen. She's playing two sports right now, taking flamenco lessons and she's in a running club so every single day there is something scheduled after school. And then there is the fact that we don't have a piano nor do we have room for one. Minor detail ;)

Our talented neighbors use Gus from Detar Music as their teacher and as luck would have it after my message to him inquiring about piano lessons got lost somewhere in space last year, HE reached out to us after the New Year and said he had a time slot open for Sam and we took it!

Now about that piano….. We have a keyboard that was mine growing up that we brought out of the garage to start with. 

We have literally five minutes to get downtown to Gus' studio from running class. Until running is over, Samantha will be looking quite sporty at piano lessons each week ;) 

As soon as we arrived, Gus got Samantha started with learning her way around the piano. 

I even brought my old piano books (yes, I saved them all) wondering if maybe the lessons were the same nowadays. Gus laughed at me and while my books were 30 or so years old, they were indeed the same thing taught now. The only thing is that he uses a different method for his students BUT has taught the Bastian method before and thought it would be fun for him to teach something different from his other students AND it would be cool for her to use my books, so that is the route we are going! 

My books ;)

We were short one piano book that I needed to order so Gus has been teaching Sam scales, chords and one of his songs he wrote for kids to have fun with and sound really fancy on the piano as a beginner. 

And check this out! We scored an awesome piano off of Craigslist for $75! 

Here's some video of her first month of playing piano. She can now play the "Arpeggio" song with her eyes closed and we are happy she is on to the next song ;)