Chords for Listening to Piano by Emilie Barton, 2 years old

_ _ Hi, I'm Paul and Emily's dad. _
_ Picasso said,
it took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child.
_ With this in mind,
I'd like to share with you a few moments of my two-year-old daughter Emily playing piano.
_ The first thing Emily does these days when she wakes up in the morning is to walk
sleepily in a direct line from the bedroom to the piano.
Climb on the stool by herself,
play a few random notes and listen to them. _
_ Anticipating she will do this, the last thing
I do each evening is to wedge down the sustain pedal with a pencil to make the sound more
interesting to her.
Why am I sharing this video?
_ _ Because it reminds me of what Picasso said and
that so much of what we do as musicians is about technique and repertoire and as the years of
practice go by, if we're not careful, we can become immune to the simple pleasure of just
listening to the sound the piano makes because we hear so much of it. _
Picasso said, all children
are artists.
The problem is remaining an artist when grown up.
What Picasso meant, of course,
was not that he wanted to paint in the style of a child _ _ but _ _ instead to paint intuitively,
_ unselfconsciously, fearlessly as if discovering and enjoying all that paint and line could do
on a canvas like a child does each and every time he held a brush.
That's to say,
as the years of hard work and practice go by, we still need to hold on to that simple happiness of
just making and listening to the colourful sounds floating in the air around us made with our
incredible wooden box called the piano and ideally we must play as if we are
discovering the music that comes out of it for the very first time.
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