During our check-in, almost all the piano students had made up new songs that they wanted to share! I love to see their curiosity blossom, and their songs are often all on the white keys, which provides a great pivot point to get them to work with different hands and finger positions on the C major scale. Today we not only incorporated cross-overs, but also began to work on playing rudiments with two hands at once. On ukulele, one student was still struggling with tuning a bit, so we focused more on rhythm and strumming instead, and he was great at pitch matching. Soon he’ll be making up songs too!