Playing Piano

Practicing Piano - Different Style

At the age of five, Minkai and Minda start to learn piano. At the very beginning, their little hand can hardly make sounds on the piano, well the black keys.

Now I keep thinking a comment from a friend, "No matter how good or how bad the kids are doing, I keep on encouraging them!" That's exactly what I am doing. Even a song with a few notes wrong, I will say, "that's pretty good!", "that's better!"...

Here are their totally different styles:
Once Minkai knows how to play a piece, he will continue practicing the piece for five times (my requirement) non-stop, no changing on speed, no following the accompanied music. He will just try to finish his practice time...

Minda will wander from a few pages before the practice song to look at the sticker that they got to pages back of new songs so that she could randomly hit keys. Once I start to count 'One, two, three, go!' she usually will start to play the piece. She will follow my instruction for the practicing though...