Yup. If I was teaching a 6 year old to play piano, I wouldn't start by teaching them how to read standard notation. The key is to make it fun and easy in the b

Yup. If I was teaching a 6 year old to play piano, I wouldn't start by teaching them how to read standard notation. The key is to make it fun and easy in the beginning, so that piano players don't give up! Then, make it harder once they are motivated to learn.... and you can show them why standard notation is more expressive/compact/better than the letter notation they started out with.