Piano: Progress in a Month

Thomas started learning classical pieces in March. After a couple of months, the piano teacher commented that Thomas was really quick in learning the notes with both hands, but he lacked "musicality". His sense of rhythm was not quite there. He liked to play a piece really really fast because he could!! The teacher said that this may take a while to improve, which caused me much anxiety. Then she added: "At least he was able to play that fast. Many student could not at his age". Well, I took that as a compliment, but it still bothered me to think that Thomas was not making beautiful music. I decided that I needed to inject myself somehow to help him along. I was relieved that Thomas did not only welcome my presence during his practice, he was actually thrilled with the attention. From then on, even a little hint of leaving him alone would motivate him to make changes. I recorded this piece when we first started in May:

This was recorded couple weeks ago. Can you hear the difference?!