Wolfgang Amadeus
Der Drübermensch is five and I've been working with him for a while on basis music theory. At this stage that means note recognition. Last night I asked him to try to find on the keyboard the first three notes of Shostakovich's A-minor fugue. It took him a painfully long time. Sheesh, this is going to be a long haul.
This morning, he sat down at the piano and played the first three notes all by himself! O glory, I have a budding Mozart on my hands!
But is a three-part fugue by Shostakovich really the best piece for him to start out with? Maybe the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-minor is the obvious choice.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Hi Fred, Sean M. here. Huai Mao means Bad (or Evil) Cat in Chinese, FYI.
Why not get the Drü started on alternative tunings and quarter-tone scales? Why let the little guy get locked into "Well Tempered" tunings? Spare the spectrum and spoil the child, I always say.
Seriously, just praise him when he comes up with his own tunes. He's got plenty of time to "learn" other composer's pieces by rote. Don't turn him into an automaton yet.
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