After the girls finished their last piano recital, I told them that we would go to the music store and they could choose something new to learn to play. Before we ever got there, Hannah had her heart set on this one: Mozart's twelve variations of what most of us know as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". This is a very difficult piece but she insisted that she doesn't care if it takes her two years to accomplish it. We brought it home and I could not get her off of the piano. Fortunately, we have a piano teacher who loves to push her students and agreed to work on it with Hannah. She does not think that it will take a year, but we will see... She thinks that Hannah is actually ready for this song. I thought it would be fun to record her progress, so here she is two weeks into practising it. She knows the first variation, some of the second, and all of the fifth. The difference in the end will mostly be in the speed. When she perfects this song, her fingers will be flying!
A funny thing about her picking this song is that we have listened to it since she was a small baby. When she would get fussy in her car seat, we would turn this song on knowing that she would instantly fall asleep. It even got to where she would hear the first note and say, "No, I don't want to sleep!", then--konk-- she was out!!!
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