A Young Heart in Mind

“If I could play piano, I could entertain little children at a remote village in any part of the world,” I thought. It was the driving force to begin my second piano lesson this afternoon.

My wish was answered. Yi-hwa taught me how to play “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, one of the most popular English nursery rhymes, the melody popular belief holds that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the original composer.

I was taught to play the song with five fingers on the piano keys, stretch the index finger (left hand) and the ring finger (right hand) to play G, followed by thumb (left hand) and little finger (right hand) to play A, then return to the original position to play F with the index finger (left hand) and the ring finger (right hand).

For one hour class, Yi-hwa corrected my fingers movement and sitting posture by placing a heavy stainless steel watch on my right wrist to make sure the watch didn’t drop from my wrist. Yi-hwa also adjusted my protruded left elbow to my body constantly. Gosh, I don’t know how long it will take before I can embed the right arms, elbows, wrists, fingers postions in my mind.

Now I’m excited to play and sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” at any occasions around the world to have fun with the grown-ups as well as the little kids.