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I hope that you all will indulge me for a few minutes here. :)

Keith got a new camcorder for his birthday. So I recorded him playing a couple of songs on the piano today. Thought I'd share them with you if you have a minute.

The second one is a song that he wrote himself. The first one is Through the Fire and Flames. That's the last song on Guitar Hero. He played it on the game. Then decided that he could play it on piano, too. So he sat down at the keyboard and just played it! I personally think he's playing it wayyyy too fast. But he says that this is the way it goes. Go figure! It's a kid thing.

By the way, Keith just turned 15. I really want to get him back into piano lessons again. He's had a couple of years off now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJP6XFg-bLw

by the way, please don't look at my messy house. It doesn't always look like this! It's just right after Christmas. You know how it goes :(

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Here is Keith's song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-eP7-DOyw

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MARGIE!!!!!

That is wonderful!!!!

I love Keith's Song! He needs to write words to it!

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Thanks, Renda. I agree. I like his song the best. But he's having a great time playing the other one right now. I figure that one is a phase that'll die out. Soon I hope. I'm pretty proud of him :)

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beautiful...and many blessings.

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He did a great job! Very talented! I hope he keeps it up.

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I don't blame you for being proud. :)

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He's very talented, Margie! This is the way Zac started - just sitting down and playing the guitar and keyboard and he could just hear the stuff and play it. I was amazed, because I've played for years but it's all analytical with me - thinking of chord progressions, etc. With him, it just flows out.

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Wonderful! I love his own composition! What a talented kid. :)

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I watched them and commented. He is doing a great job!!! :D

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Thank you, everyone, for all of the positive comments. I will share them with Keith tomorrow. It'll be good for his ego :)

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Encourage that kid with his talent.

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Margie!!! That is some talent right there!!!!!!! I'm proud of him too!!!! :santathumb

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Really cool Marg! reminds me of myself when i was coming up.

Is he picking all this out my ear? if so, then he's certainly a natural.
I noticed he's not reading music or a chord chart.

I hope you are getting him involved in your church music dept

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Mark, he is playing all of this by ear. That's how he plays everything.

When he was 4, our neighbor called and asked if she could give Keith piano lessons because he kept going to her piano and playing songs. The other kids went over to it and banged and banged. But Keith played whole songs. So she started his lessons. But they only lasted less than a year because she would give him the lesson for the next week, play thru it once for him so he'd know what it was supposed to sound like and send him home. Then he wouldn't touch the piano all week and go back the next week and sit down and play it for her perfectly. I decided he needed someone who was going to be tougher on him. That's when I hooked him up with the teacher he stayed with for several years. He really did learn alot from Kelly. But then he started not practicing again. He's more interested in guitar right now. So he's not been taking lessons for over a year again. He can play what's written. But he prefers to play by ear. He is in our ensemble at church. But that's it. Our pastor is very strange about people playing special numbers. That only happens very rarely. And is usually Keith when it does, at the insistance of our music director. We have a deaf guy playing guitar (I mean that seriously) in our praise band. Keith is much better than him. But he is the music director's son in law. Oh well.

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Make him stay the course. He has the talent, you have the discipline and that's a perfect marriage. He'll thank you later on for knowing what was best for him and not letting him get lax in the things God's blessed him with. He can play the guitar too but not unless he sticks to the piano too. He can't drop one for the other :santathumb You have a gifted child but some gifted children, especially those in the arts, are moody. If they can ever get disciplined, the sky is the limit. Do not let up lol

I was watching his hands, he needs to work on technique. He needs to practice intense drills and scales. If he will do this, it will make his playing so much easier for years to come.

He has to do these things NOW or it wont ever happen marg. Music is DEVELOPMENTAL and has to be done in the early years.

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Thanks for the great advice, Mark. I will pass that along to Keith.

I'm going to call and get him in with a woman who teaches piano from First Apostolic in Toledo. Her son also teaches guitar. So I'll just set him up for back-to-back lessons. He's pretty excited about that :)