Zeta started the lesson by requesting to play "Chimes" by memory. I asked her to play for someone at home, a mini-recital; recitals are great to teach grace under pressure; we did several new songs and reached the middle of the book; Zeta accepted the challenge of not writing the finger numbers on her easy pieces today and focused on recognizing whether a note was going straight up or down, skipping up or down; the C triad has been outlined so that when she sees the block she will not think of them as individual notes, rather as the C triad; we then turned our attention to ear training; there are 13 different intervals (an interval is the distance between two notes) - Zeta was introduced to 11 of the 13, she mastered 9; the average number of mastered intervals on the first day is five, Zeta reached 11 - obviously she shows a strength in the area of having a good ear; this will come in handy when she hears a song on the radio that she wants to learn on her own.