August 2006

Accepting My Shortfalls

August 30, 2006 00:26

The concert over the weekend went well apparently, despite a few non-noticeable mistakes on my part.

The violin exam however is coming next week. There are a certain things I cannot yet do:

- Perfect intonation on my 3-octave sacles (those beginning from E flat and above)
- Perfect intonation on double-stop scales
- Cannot distinguish a Perfect and a Plagal cadence.
- I can't even tune my own violin properly!

Well, apart from the above, I think I should do OK with the rest. I'll just have to accept my shortfalls, hoping I will pass this exam, and strive to nail them before the Grade 8 exam next year.

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I got paid playing music for the first time!

August 20, 2006 16:17

I was early for my lesson last Saturday. So I went to the nearby park to warm up and practiced some scales and exam pieces. A little kid (probably 10 years old) came to me and said "I think you play very well and you deserve this." He handed me 5 cents. I was laughing and said thank you. The coin had a little dirt which indicated that he might have found it somewhere in the park.

After about 35 minutes practising at the park it was time for my lesson and as I was heading to my teacher's home, the kid and his friends yelled "YOU ROCK!"

That was just what I needed to boost my confidence a little for the concert this weekend, and my exam the week after. It's a 10 year-old boy (or 11, I wasn't sure) and 5 cents, and he made my day!

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The Theory of Supply and Demand

August 10, 2006 01:06

I remember that in the first few economic lectures I attended during my uni days, the lecturer said that although generally if the price fall the demand will increase, there is a limit to how much demand will increase. She gave an example, "You'd buy more ice-cream if it suddenly it becomes cheaper but you can only eat so much ice-cream. You'd get to a point where even if the price falls further you wouldn't buy another."

In the past few days, I related the economics I learned to my violin practice. I always never have enough time for violin practice because of work. Now, the new job gave me so much time to practice that for as far as I can remember, this is the first time I actually had enough of it. I actually felt reluctant to touch the violin.

Too much of a good thing?

P/S: I had enough putting up with my back pain I'm now committed to my chiropractic appointments.

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