A Flick of the Switch

Plus, We Have a Drop Date. Sort Of!

When Little Bean practices her piano, I try to sit with her. I confess to not finding the time often enough. My strategy is to have her “teach” me while she’s learning; a way to keep her engaged while keeping her company. This strategy has generally worked with other passions in her life.

I didn’t actually expect to learn anything.

But I did.

The other day, I asked her a real question I had about note placement. There’s so many keys, when you look at a note, how to they match up to the keys? I was genuinely baffled. And she explained it. She took my fingers and counted the chords out as EGBDF, or Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips. Then she placed my hand on the keys and showed me how to count out in fives across the keyboard.

Have you ever been learning something - like math, or you’re doing a budget, or forming a sentence, or fixing a toaster, and suddenly there’s this light behind your eye lids. One second you were thinking one way, and the next second the puzzle piece suddenly fits. That fast.

Look, I’m still a long ways away from Chopsticks, and I haven’t a clue whether this strategy will actually help her or not. But just like that, she opened her little book to Hot Cross Buns and said, “Ok, start there and follow me.”

And for about five seconds I was playing piano with my daughter. She taught me how to do that. With her. Remarkable.

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NEW FIELD GUIDE NEARLY HERE! In other news, as promised yesterday, our new field guide, More NH Rocks That Rock: Memorial Stones has a launch date! Sort of! The book will be heading out to those that pre-ordered over the weekend and we hope to have hard copies of the book available to anyone by early to middle next week!

We’ll have a whole post dedicated to the book release schedule tomorrow morning! Until then, here’s the link for pre-orders! We’re nearly there! Pre-Order Rocks That Rock Memorial Stones

Endicott Rock from Vol. 2 of Rocks That Rock