As most of you already know, I am on a 4 month RV trip to Alaska..before I continue this post, I wanted to share this picture of me and my daughter taking a rest on a hike yesterday in Butte, Montana:

My baby is growing up, she is the youngest of 5 and she is going on 12 years old! (This is the stage where daughters still love their mommy’s!)

Anyway, even though I am on a trip, I am still thinking about you and have been wanting to give you new free material to play with, but I am not quite sure what you want! I have lots of my own ideas, but my ideas might not be the same as yours. What I really need to know is what you want because what you want is going to help me create new free videos, audio and lessons for you so you can reach your piano playing dreams!

At first, I thought I would have you “vote” on my ideas, but then I decided I would let you tell me what you truly want from online lessons, without me interfering. I do need to keep this a little bit under control so that there is not a lot of requests being made that is not related to what I offer, so let me just give you a couple guidelines for you to keep in mind as you give me your ideas:

1. First..keep in mind that I teach how to read music, so please make your requests related to reading music. I don’t have any support or lessons for playing by ear.

2. Please refrain from making specific song requests. The reason? That’s not the kind of content that would help you read sheet music. Don’t worry, I will be doing a survey really soon about what kind of songs you desire, but for now.. I need to know what you wish you had to help you learn to read music.
Reading music will enable you to play any of your favorite songs.. so instead of focusing on particular songs, let’s focus on playing any song! ~smile~

3. Here are some areas of most difficulty when learning to read music that might give you some ideas. Rhythm, counting out loud, reading music quickly, finger placement, left hand, playing with both hands, motivation, staying focused, regular practice, reading chords, overcoming boredom with beginner songs.

Ok, now it’s your turn! Give me your ideas and I will give you some more free videos, audio and lessons! OH MY!……..