The Tick Tock Trio playing during their lesson with Mia. Charlie really has fun playing with Alvaro and Cacilda and Maria and I get a kick out of watching them. And despite protestations and time wasting tactics on the part of Charlie, I really like practicing with him for a half hour every morning. It is some one on one time and I love seeing him learn the music and hearing him play.
And I really like Levine. I have tried so any music classes with my children over the years. The actual guitar lessons are great but for Charlie’s age and the you get kids there needs to be more in place in terms of general music. Last year I developed a classical music class for kids with my friend-a musician who teaches Suzuki violin- Sandy Choi. The point was to take pieces like Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, The Four Seasons and others and talk to the children about them to listen to how the different instruments and composition tell a story while they also learn te names and sounds of the instrument and the roles of those in an orchestra. I loved it but it was hard to hold all these classes in our house so hopefully now I can talk to Levine school about getting them to do them.
