That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 20, 2018

“Six years at Julliard and I’m getting $20 per lesson for teaching "Camp Town Races.”

“Tell me what are all these dots and lines supposed to mean?”

“Ok, you’ve learned ‘Jump’ well enough; time to move on.”

“Gad! Someone please invent a phonograph or radio…or SOMETHING!”

“Now try using the arpeggiator……. oops, sorry it hasn’t been invented yet.”

Don’t feel bad, Dad. I never heard of Cardi B either.

And after finding out she’s just another rapper, I don’t think I’m missing anything.

A rapper who can write music? I’ve yet to hear one who can sing.

Cardi B and “song” in the same sentence? Is that irony or hyperbole?

Methinks thou’rt ready to start a garage band. Now if someone will just invent the garage..

“I’m reading the latest Star Wars installment. Can you play something by John Williams?”

A Who?

Thought balloon: “Why must she make that noise during her posture lesson?”

If your fluency in French, your handwriting and your flower arranging are as bad as your piano playing you’ll be out of that fancy school faster than you can blink.

Dad finally gives up trying to teach Pam to play it funky.

“IIIIII AMMMMM IIRRRRRONNN MAAAAANNN”

“You keep playing, I’m going to see if you are breathing properly.”

If you untie that bow her upper body falls off.

Dad then states, “All those years of lessons in classical music… and you play me Cardi B?!?!? Bah!”

Apparently no one was able to make up their mind about this painting. There are two titles. One is “The Piano Lesson”. The other is “Singing to the Reverend”. In the latter case, I wonder if the Reverend is contemplating what Hell might be like? However, I note the lack of a clerical collar.

“‘Play that funky music white boy’ is inappropriate no matter how you spinet.”

The Piano Lesson or Singing to the Reverend: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Blair_Leighton_-_Singing_to_the_reverend.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly C3 envelope size painting.

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/844 

http://www.avictorian.com/Leighton_Edmund_Blair.html 

http://hoocher.com/Edmund_Blair_Leighton/Edmund_Blair_Leighton.htm 

all have info about this artist. So far, 35 works by him have been used here, with 2 repeated as Classics (37 times total). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/04/09?comments=visible 

has the prior strip (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1978 (June 19, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Six years of piano lessons and all you can play is Chopsticks?

“That song she’s singing, is definitely not from the hymnal” thinks the Rev. Piddlebottom.

When she asked him to join her for a little “She Bangs,” this is not what he had in mind. He and Ricky Martin were both wrong, but not as wrong as this comment.

piano professor Higgins can’t wait till she finishes the lesson, then on to more “training”.

“A wop bom a loo bop, a womp bam boom!” How was that, your grace?"

Love me or leave me …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQpipS_qfc