In today's blog post, I am happy to write about a student who was brought to me by his father as an absolute beginner at the age of 10.
I remember how his father wrote that he planned for his son to be very committed to his lessons, or his video games would get taken away. It almost sounds like a humorous memory when I remember it now.
The reason I say this is that this student, after years of piano lessons with me, showed a love of composing and arranging melodies inspired by the video games he had grown up watching. He was a natural and had lots of ideas for his left-hand action, supporting right-hand melodies with lots of beautiful embellishments.
I remember teaching him tricks and ornaments to use at the piano, and he ran with it. It's wonderful to feel a student get turned on to the tricks and trades of piano playing in this way.