Well, I have been a bit delinquent on my Violin Lesson blogging of late. I apologize to my faithful readers. I can’t believe I only have 2 lessons left in the Beginning Violin class. Hopefully there will be enough interest in an Intermediate Class so we can have one in the spring and don’t have to wait until next fall!
At our 5th lesson, we learned 4 more notes, and we are now able to play an entire scale! This adds a few selections to our song list. The cool thing about this class is that we repeat things often, yet our teacher, B, has such variety in her teaching that we don’t even realize we’re repeating things! That is good for an impatient learner like myself…I need to repeat to get better, but don’t have the patience to get there. So this is a perfect situation for me.
Our class continues to have fun together as banter back and forth with B. I think she enjoys having adults around (since she’s used to teaching 5th grade thru High School). Oh, so there is one story from today. Sometimes our teacher forgets that people don’t know how to read music (I admit, I forget sometimes, too). So there is this one girl who has a STRONG personality (to put it nicely/mildly) and does not know how to read music. So when B forgets and rushes through something assuming people know what she’s talking about, this chick throws attitude. I tried to step in nicely to try to explain to her what the “key signature” and “F sharp” all meant and she totally bit my head off. Wow. She wanted to be sure I knew that she didn’t know what that meant because she doesn’t read music (um, hello! That’s what I was trying to explain to you…but whatever). So I decided I should refrain from that point on. Everyone else in the class is sweet and fun, though. We laugh when B tells us we sound good (because honestly, I don’t think it’s true!). Haha.
Ah well...more excitement next week…
3 comments:
I am glad that you are enjoying your lessons! Don't forget to bring your violin to lunch on Sunday! :) I hope that you are having a great week. Oh, we forgot to have an "invitation" to work out. Justin and I did DDR for about 10 minutes. How about you?
Yay for knowing how to play an entire scale! Your teacher sounds great- I hope you are able to go right on to the intermediate class with her. I can't believe there are only 2 more lessons! Will you be able to keep the violin to practice?
I remember the days at beginning to learn music! I have played the clarinet since 6th grade. I decided to take piano lessons when I was about 13 and I am a very impatient learner. All I wanted was to know was where the notes were on the piano, so I could just play - forget chop sticks - I want Beethoven!!! I have been trying to learn the ukulele, but don't quite have the knack for it (no coordination :-/)! Well have fun with your next 2 classes.
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