Piano music choices
Dv just impresses me, you know? Sing him a tune and he can pick it out on the piano in no time flat; have all the right inflections and the harmony, even. Give him a paper full of notes, though, and you’ll get a long loud sound of displeasure, generally.
I started him out with a very simple version of “Oh where, oh where can my little dog be?” called “My little doggie.” The problem is that he knows the song and “My little doggie” just wasn’t up to snuff. He complained that it wasn’t how the “real” song sounded. It was just two staves long & I wanted him to play the notes he was reading. He did; and was NOT happy with it at all.
So.
I began hunting for the full song. I found it in a very old music book - one that is even printed in color! It’s a full over-sized page long with six staves. I brought it over to him, showed him and he practiced that tune for a full hour. That’s just unprecidented! It’s like pulling eye-teeth to get him to play for 20 minutes from notes on a page, normally. Needless to say, I am very much impressed that he has that kind of focus when his mind is engaged. With him, if it’s not right, it’s not worth doing, apperantly.