Rows Of Houses Sound Asleep || Michelle & Lachlan
Teaching was in Lachlan’s blood, quite literally. He’d learned how to be a great teacher from his parents, along with his passion for music. He’d met the most amazing people and seen the most amazing places teaching opera, being a coach, and then a teacher. It really shaped him into who he was but he never lost the vision of being a professional musician and composer. With that opportunity within his reach he’d left teaching behind and began to pursue his new dream with Adele’s hand in his. Luckily, his friends periodically needed a coach and he’d fill up a little free time for some lessons for them. Michelle would be no different.
Though Michelle was someone that Lachlan had just met on the site, she seemed nice. Lachlan had already had an easiness in making friends and being with Adele he learned how to value making friends family. It wasn’t particularly easy juggling two little ones and guitar lessons but Adele understood that it was important to him and with a couple of meetings a week it would amount to no more than three hours a week. Lachlan really did appreciate that Michelle had wanted morning lessons too, it let him pick up after the girls when they went to bed an get the lesson in before they could really make another big mess. Most of the time they all hung out in his music room. The little girls shaking maracas or banging on the drum of a tambourine.
When he opened the door for Michelle to enter their large house his neighbor’s cars still sat in their driveways and the girls had yet to make a peep. He gave her his naturally illuminating big smile as he said good morning and set her guitar down at the door to his music room. Then, leading to the kitchen her made them a drink and pushed a plate of hot pancakes toward her. After a small laugh about the importance of fueling your music he popped the dirty dishes in the sink and they moved to the music room with glasses of water. The baby monitor sat atop his Steinway, the little sound light on just one, a static hum from the humidifier and fan.
They spent the next hour going over tuning, frets and bars, how to read sheet music, and basic chords. He’d catch himself bouncing in his seat as she caught on quickly. With his counting and playing of the chords on the piano they played through a couple of tunes with few corrections. Sifting through the long bench across the far wall that looked like a window seat but opened up into a very organized filing system, Lachlan pulled out a beginners guitar book filled with instructions, his own notes in the margins, and sheet music. With an friendly pat on her back he gave her homework and sent her on her way, right to the queue of a cry from his littlest, Ellie. Needless to say, there was definitely a bounce in his step as he hopped up to the little ones room and told her about how excited he was to one day teach her how to play new instruments.