Zeta received her new book. She plans to leave it at the school where she states she will practice. Practicing four or more times will ensure that she will make progress. Four times alone will just make sure that she does not forget what she learned. Three times or less will mean that she will forget what or how to do something. Zeta had a fascination today concerning where the actual middle of the piano was located. Each of the pieces we did involved Middle C. Upon researching the middle of the piano via counting to key 44 - there are 88 keys - we discovered that the middle of the piano does not correlate with the location of Middle C on the Grand Staff. We reviewed past lessons before embarking on more easy pieces. At one point Zeta wanted to write the fingering of the notes. Before doing so she did very well however, it is difficult in the beginning to identify whether the next note is going up, down or skipping and matching the correct finger. It a fine idea to allow her to write the fingering to see if she would correctly identify the proper fingering. She was successful. Hope that gave her the confidence she needed. She covered the proper way to hold our fingers - curved - our wrists and forearms - up and a little to the outside - and our sitting position - at the edge of our seat. We are not supposed to be comfortable. On the contrary we are to be "on our toes". Zeta knew the C Scale with the proper fingering, however we needed to learn to "cross under the thumb". She did it correctly on the very next try. We discussed what the criteria was to earn a "check mark" for each piece - perfect notes, rhythm, tempo and fingering. This we hope will help her with self-critique. I gave her a glimpse of what we will cover in the very near future. It is all easy, there are just so many areas to cover. I asked Zeta to review the music we covered because, yes, she did it correctly however, I want her to play it about five times so that her experience is not so strained. Muscle memory is the goal. Also, l let Zeta know that even though it looks like I'm a music teacher my main focus is to teach resiliency. Practice makes perfect is necessary for success in any field of endeavor.