Chris is showing excellent progress with his reading. At first he was still a bit unsure when deciphering rhythms on his own, but with some encouragement he quickly regained his confidence. Once focused and confident he demonstrated a clear understanding these 8th note rhythms and made great progress reading through a couple of exercises entirely on his own. Tom Sawyer is still quite difficult for Chris to get through as its a long and fairly complicated song that demands a lot of physical stamina, but he's improved every time we've played it and in this class he was able to get through about 3/4 of it and did very well. After Tom Sawyer, we worked again on Consoler of the Lonely which has a meandering and fairly tricky central beat that had previously eluded Chris. Today, after listening through it again and taking some more time to break down each section Chris was able to play through the whole song! He was so pleased that he immediately played through the whole song a second time.