"she hasn't played anything with flats yet"

Ah!!!! that's why 'Classical Music Training' concentrates so heavily on Scale Playing as a basic skill! You learn to the point of it becoming totally automatic which fingers to place on which keys for each of the 36 basic scales (talking keyboard terms here), so that when you come to play a piece in that key, Major or Minor (both forms!), your fingers just fall into the right place (and do the thumb crossings!) without thinking!


'most music today is "neither melodic nor romantic."'

A reasonable definition of most 'Pop' 'Rock' music...