Tyler began teaching himself to play the keyboard by learning all the keys first. The white ones were super easy and got them down quickly. The black keys kept confusing him—he kept forgetting the difference between flat and sharp, but it was nothing a quick Google search couldn't help with.
After getting the keys, he looked up piano versions of nursery rhymes on Youtube. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary Had a Little Lamb were both super easy and he learned to play them after only a couple minutes each. He got similar results with Itsy Bitsy Spider—it just took a couple more tries, but still elementary.
Zack enters the room as Tyler's teaching himself to play Jingle Bells and sits next to his younger brother, watching him play for a moment before speaking, "Maybe we can look into getting you piano lessons when we go home."
"You don't have to," comes Tyler's smiling response, wincing a little as he accidentally presses the wrong key, and he starts playing the song again from the beginning.
"Did you learn any other songs?" Zack asks, and Tyler nods, stopping Jingle Bells to show him the three nursery rhymes mentioned before. Tyler looks to his brother after he plays all three songs, and he's met with a proud smile.
"That's good, T-bro!" Zack praises the younger boy, and Tyler can't stop himself from breaking out into a wide grin, "You know the names of the keys, too?"
"Just the white ones," Tyler answers, starting Jingle Bells again, "I keep getting the black ones confused."
"Not gonna lie, I never really grasped the sharps and flats when I used to play," Zack says. This gains the younger's attention, because he never knew his older brother played anything.
"You used to play?" Tyler asks, tilting his head a little as he stares at Zack curiously.
"Yeah, started in second or third grade, but my piano teacher sucked, so Mom and Dad pulled me out after a few years. I haven't played in awhile, but I could probably still show you some stuff. I'll show you how to play something cool, how does that sound?"
Tyler nods enthusiastically and pushes the keyboard closer to Zack, watching intently as Zack begins to demonstrate a few things, explaining as he does.
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