1,000 Days of Piano - Day 50: Milestones

I never appreciated Mary Had a Little Lamb until I started folding the Suzuki arrangement into my traditional teaching. It is such a milestone piece for students. Once they can play a simple right hand  melody with basic left hand chords, they can play many other simple tunes with similar accompaniments. It is so exciting to watch a student’s enthusiasm light up after playing unaccompanied melodies and solo left hand accompaniments.

So much of learning anything involves a gradual, daily increase in ability. Slowly trudging uphill, we focus on one foot in front of the other...until we realize we’ve reached a plateau overlooking a beautiful valley. Tomorrow begins the next climb, but today we can enjoy the view.