Practicing Dexterity

Both lessons today ended up focusing a lot on finger dexterity, for different reasons. For one student, we honed in and practiced playing the keys with all five fingers, as he tends to go back to playing the keyboard with just his index finger (though he can do incredible things with it nonetheless! Especially when he starts to play with his feet and nose as well). For our other student, we had to work around the fact that he had scraped his strumming hand earlier, so he didn't want to aggravate it with playing.  Instead of working on rhythms and strumming, we focused on the fretting hand, getting the fingers to be comfortable jumping up and down between strings, which he attended to with the same studiousness he always does. Both are wonderful students and filled with talent!