The private music lessons at NISRA are for piano, guitar, and voice. They are half hour lessons with a professional instructor every week. There are also 2 locations to choose from and a recital at the end of the season. This was the class that I knew for sure I wanted Aiden to be in. It was difficult deciding where to put him because piano, guitar, and voice were the exact 3 things that I wanted him to try out. Aiden really didn’t care either way so I chose piano for him. I figured that’s what he’d start with because it seemed that, for him, it would be the easiest to learn and learn he did! He’d go to class once a week, we’d both have to learn something new, and then the rest of the week we’d spend practicing it. I think it was during this time, when he first started taking piano, that I discovered that he could sing.
I started noticing when we would drive in my car. I’d have the music playing loudly and every now and then I could swear I’d hear another voice singing, and on pitch, with the radio! Once I knew for sure it was him I was so excited. I wanted to jump on this right away so I told his piano teacher about it and she said we could work on some voice lessons along with the piano and that at the end of the season he could perform both piano and voice at the recital. He did end up doing just that and he did an awesome job on both, but his weekly lessons remained mostly focused on the piano. He did a great job with the song that he sang at the recital but that was because he practiced a lot at home. He stayed with the piano for a couple years but we eventually stopped when it became a luxury we could no longer afford. He still sings, still has a great voice, but doesn’t always know how to use it. I will hopefully get him some instruction one day.
