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 End of Year LessonDecember 19, 2008 at 5:28 AM Tonight was my last lesson of the year. I had gotten to my teacher's house VERY early and was sitting in my car in the driveway playing a game on my blackberry when I got a message: "you can come in if you want". SURE! We started with the prerequisite C-Minor scale, with a new twist... a change in the bowings. The first set of notes are slurred, then the second set bowed individually. It was a little bit of a mind-teaser at first until I got the hang of it. We then started on the Bloch. He's very excited about this.. it is one of his favorite pieces, and after listening to it a few times now I understand why. What I didn't know was that he performed this with OSO before. He started copying his fingerings and bowings from his copy, every once in awhile I heard "we'll keep that fingering" - referring to what I had ventured to figure out on my own (insert big smiley here). We worked through it once in sections. This is definitely going to be fun to learn!!! After the Bloch, I gave my "graduation" performance of Bach's Suite #3 Sarabande - entirely from memory. This was the first time I had ever attempted a "graduation" performance from memory. I didn't even open the sheet-music to tempt myself to peek. Only once did I have a complete miss... and it wasn't that bad. I made a 4 part chord into a 3-part (all the right notes, but forgot one). After the repeat though, I did have to crack open the sheet music to get me through a "brain fade", but then didn't look at it again. It was so liberating playing a piece without needing to rely on the sheet music. I was able to focus more on the MUSIC and not on the notes themselves. It was a nice way to end the last lesson of 2008. Next year is going to be very exciting! This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments. |
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