1,000 Days of Piano - Day 52: Basics

I love it that Go Tell Aunt Rhody immediately follows Mary Had a Little Lamb in the first Suzuki book. Once students gain the ability to play a simple right hand melody with two basic left hand chords, they learn a third chord. Enter the subdominant. With the tonic and dominant chords, students can play many simple tunes, like Alouette. Adding the subdominant gives students many more tunes to play. On Top of Spaghetti and Jingle Bells both come to mind. I love introducing the subdominant so much I decided to speak on the recording instead of just playing. Learning and teaching the basics really is so much fun.