Today was also the first lesson with J's new piano teacher. I'm going to call her Natasha as she's Russian. She is really nice. Her English isn't very good so it's quite interesting trying to work out what she's saying sometimes. She seems to be very well trained both in piano and singing. She said in Russia they had piano lessons 2 or 3 times a week and worked very hard doing lots of exercises to improve their technique. She paid a lot of attention to how J was moving his hands and fingers which wasn't quite right right she said. She also got him counting aloud as he played. Anyway she feels J has potential and can do well if he's prepared to work. He's going to do some exercises and play a range of different styles of music rather than just doing exam pieces all the time. The aim is to start Grade 3 after Christmas when hopefully he'll be ready.
Anyway it's looking quite hopeful.
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