Songs

This week, I’m feeling more acutely the tension between my direction and my daughter’s passion. For instance, at the same time that I’ve gotten her to practice specific songs on the piano, it seems like her own desire to fool around on the piano has gone down.

But this morning, she told me she had written a song: “This Is Where I’m Meant To Be.”

So before we began her practice session, I asked her to play the song on the piano. She noodled and warbled and came up with something that sounded vaguely Disney-ish. It was fun. It was weird.

Then I asked her to practice the songs we learned together: “Twinkle Twinkle,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” AND “Jesus Loves Me.” She readily complied.

My takeaways?

1. She obviously loves music if she’s writing songs on her own.
2. Better to let her play the stuff she wants to play first, then ask for her to put in the practice time on things I want her to do.