08/18/2025
Carol King tells a wonderful story here about how she first started taking piano lessons and the influence her Mom had on her in these early days! Inspiring and fun. 🥰🎶🎹 Check it out, students, parents, and followers. 🧑🏫👨👩👧👦🌟
"I had begun making up songs when I was three. Perched precariously on Brooklyn and Manhattan telephone books atop the piano bench, I improvised words and melodies at the top of my lungs while my little fingers pounded out a rudimentary accompaniment on the piano. Using the most advanced form of recording then available in our household, my mother transcribed onto music paper a song I wrote called "Galloping."
My first real music lesson took place when I was four. My mother invited me to climb up and sit next to her on the piano bench. (By then I needed only the Brooklyn phone book.) She introduced me to music theory and elementary piano technique using a child-sized book with a bright red cover called Teaching Little Fingers to Play, by John Thompson." - CK
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