I have recently signed up to learn to play the guitar. Like any new learner, I have a set of challenges to overcome before belting out great musical numbers from it.  Akank is a little restless with my unskilled strumming. She has little patience with me when I play the instrument. She reads the notes from the music sheet ahead of me in her mind and is exasperated when I grope with it. " Seriously ma! I don't make so many mistakes on my keyboard when I learn my lessons!"

Akank has been learning to play the keyboard since she was four and plays it with ease now - six years hence. Even though she had a change of tutors and therefore the methodology of teaching, in between,  she coped with the change well. I explained to her that adult learners have certain other challenges and are less deft with learning to play instruments than children her age.

Someday she wants to learn to play the guitar too. Ever since she watched the movie August Rush, she dreams about playing the guitar like August does in the movie!