Today was my first day working Oliver! We had a great time meeting one another and finding out the perfect launching point. I discovered that he has a great understanding of the note names on the keyboard as well as note values. He also has excellent hand placement and posture. It's evident he comes from a great piano teacher! We began with a few simple warm-up songs from the piano book. He had no trouble with these at all and so we then started Beethoven's "Ode To Joy". Our first steps with this piece involved finger numbers and letter names and putting the melody together as a cohesive whole.