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Ben Clapton

May 29, 2005 at 1:39 AM

My student suprised me yesterday. He has an audition tomorrow for a spot in a music school, so I ran him through his pieces, and ran him through a mock audition process to get him used to it. His rhythm when I clapped it to him was excellent, he could clap it back to me. He had never been able to do that to me before with the simplest excercises that I gave him. He's not confident in singing, however when he trys he's near the note. Unfortunately it's at that time when his voice is changing, so he's even less confident. But I think he'll be great tomorrow and will be in with a chance.

I've got my new student coming today. I hope she remembers, I haven't heard from her since she first called. But I'm looking forward to it. My first "new" student. She's learnt before but hasn't played for some time.

Oh well, I think i should start putting my new composition into the computer, hear it for the first time as best I can.

From tara murphy
Posted on May 30, 2005 at 10:25 AM
benji... how did your suk go in string class?? was it good or did it suk :)

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