Originally Posted by: W.A.S.P.. . . that intermediate stage is difficult to structure, I've found, I just can't for the life of me get any enthusiasm to play twinkle twinkle little star type tunes :-)[/quote]

I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to here. But I get your intention. It helps to have material you are motivated by in order to learn.

Having said that, it's pretty common for me to find out that a student can't actually play any given simple melody, which is disappointing. And it's not as if it's important for you or anyone to spend much time playing nursery rhymes like Twinkle. But you should have enough musical skills (technical & conceptual) to play one of those melodies at any time if you had to. It's like a baseline skill level assessment.

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So it was good to see Christopher's tutorials here

Hope those wind up being valuable!