Sam is amazing.
I was just doing my daily Wii Fit workout. I know... pretty strenuous but at least it's better than nothing and indoors! Anyway, it has the catchy tunes that it plays while you're doing the various exercises and all of the sudden Sam comes down and starts playing along with the songs on his viola. He had never tried to play them before but was basically playing the tunes and sometimes a little extra solo stuff, too. It cracked me up. He has a hard time opening up his practice book but he can play what he hears.
Then he grabs his saxophone and proceeds to do the same thing to a different song played during a different exercise. We had fun and it was amazing as he could just play them off the top of his head. Had never seen music for these songs or even tried them before. Because he could hear them he could play them. It was that simple.
I'm a sports fan and played a lot of sports when I was a kid. I've always heard the phrase that you play as good as you practice. Well, Sam flies in the face of that saying. He's not a good practicer but continues to progress. One thing we try to do is expose him to a lot of music through YouTube, CDs from the library and live events. Our church also has great music every Sunday morning and I can just see Sam soaking up the songs and their various parts. Pretty amazing.
One time, Anne went to an exhibit that basically had different types of glass that were set up to make different pitches. He really enjoyed this and even got a chance to talk with the person in charge of the exhibit. He tested Sam on the pitches and Sam was able to identify the pitches perfectly each time. He basically has perfect pitch! What an incredible gift!
Now if I could just get him to practice more and perhaps do his homework AND hand it in on time. He also doesn't do a great job on his daily work - particularly in math but then finished the last semester with a perfect 100% on his final.
Sometimes I just have to shake my head... and my Wii remote.
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