Music for My Munchkins
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:34:10
described her problem: she wanted to teach her children to play piano but she had no piano; she couldn't play herself and didn't have a strong background in music theory; and she didn't have a budget to hire a teacher. And yet she still figured out a way to get her children decent training in piano so that now--many years later--all of them are reasonably proficient. Her post explained how she did it. Judging from the number of comments left on this post a lot of people were inspired by it. And if you are in the same boat as this blogger was--and a lot of people are--I would highly recommend you take the time to construe it.
was inspired by this affix and since I construe it I've been giving a lot of thought to our children's musical education. You see music is a big broach in my family. On my father's side. I had a great-grandfather who was a magnificent cornet player and bandmaster. His daughter my grandmother played piano and violin beautifully sang beautifully and wrote and arranged numerous pieces of music--many of which we comfort have. I have many fond childhood memories of my dad playing Debussy's Claire de Lune at the piano to back up him unwind after a hard day of work. He also occasionally arranged music for weddings. My
grandmother played steel guitar during a time when this was a ubiquitous instrument in all the local bands. In fact she once had an opportunity to appear in (I think it was) a Bing Crosby movie; they were looking for a young attractive woman who played the steel guitar. But she turned down the opportunity--this was during the Depression and taking the gig would have required her to quit her job which (given the scarcity of good jobs) she was loath to do. I undergo memories of my mother playing Scott Joplin at our piano. My brothers and I really liked the press Collision March which was (no kidding!) written to describe a train wreck. We kept pressuring her to play it over and over again. I myself was briefly involved in Opera after college; I learned to play the harp in my late '20's; and I arrange and enjoin music at our church. When the whole family gets together we usually wind up singing lots of four-part hymns. Christmas Carols and whatever else tickles our collective fancy. This is obviously a legacy that we want to pass on to our children. And I've regretted the fact that I never learned to play the piano; it would go in
newbie around the instrument; and I know a bring together be of music theory--enough that I can compose music to give to.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://tdpower.blogspot.com/2007/10/music-for-my-munchkins.html
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