Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 17, 2024

He’ll learn reading words later, for now just reading music.

He’s just playing by ear!

WTC Prelude No. 1 in C by J.S. Bach

Another strip for those that wondered if the piano is a Calvin and Hobbes situation, the question of whether he is really playing or is just imagining he is.

It’s kinda interesting that pre-C&H, everyone trusted he was really playing. Post-C&H it’s become a standard question.

Hey, give Schroeder a break, he’s still just a toddler yet.

I wonder if that was true of Mozart. He wrote his first composition at age 5.

You can read it, Charlie Brown!

There have been musicians who learned to play by ear without ever learning to read music, but I wonder if there have been any who have learned to read music without learning to read words.

He can play the music. That’s enough.