Sorry for the long post!
My Dd is 5 and plays the piano fairly well- she plays grade 1 pieces and her teacher is planning to start her on grade 2 pieces in the new year.
However, she can play pretty much any melody she’s heard by ear with almost no effort and is starting to try to figure out the accompanying chords now (she just does this for fun). She also has very good relative pitch- so if you play any note and name it, she can easily name any note you play after that in any order and often times can guess the first note too. She likes to transpose the songs she’s learning into different keys and octaves for fun as well.
Her music teacher at school and tap teacher have both mentioned she is really strong at pulse and rhythm and her private piano teacher improvises with her and gets her to make up songs and also thinks she’s very musical. She also sings pretty well for her age.
I know she is above average musically but how unusual is this?
I’m asking as she’s interested in lots of things - does dance, swimming and clubs at school. She’s asked to start a second instrument but also wants to do gymnastics, tennis and coding!
That would be far too much so I’m trying to decide which one additional activity to potentially do based on where she might really benefit from it.
She is quite sporty as well but I think her musical talent is more unusual though it’s hard to benchmark.
TIA