August 10, 2005 at 11:31 PM

I gave my friend a free violin lesson today. He is 30, and has never touched a musical instrument in his life. I have quite missed teaching over the summer, I enjoy it a lot. He did really well, he has big hands and slender fingers, and had no trouble with co-ordination. I taught him a D major scale, and Ode to joy. He played the scale ok, and he played the Beethoven very slowly as I wrote it out in tablature form. I explained to him how you should practice slowly and perfectly, and I saw him later on and he said that he managed it at a slow speed. Result in one day!! I let him borrow my spare violin, but didnt give him the bow. I find that the bow can scare people off, all that skwarking and stuff can be painful under the ear. I gave another lesson in the afternoon, and I actually got paid for this one. It was a house visit for a 10 year old girl who has been playing and taking lessons from me for a few years, and she is a complete natural. She practices very little, but can play a scale with faultless, effortless intonation. She has an excellent ear. They had bought a kitten, and it was jumping around the living room during the lesson. It was so cute! I adore kittens. It spent half the lesson in my case, and the other half jumping after the moving bows. I wanted to take it home with me! So cute. It was black and white, and had a little goatee and moustache on its face, awww. I think they'll have top put it upstairs next lesson though, its not very professional to have a ball of fur flying round the settee when you are trying to play Beethoven.
Im going to put a picture up tomorrow I think, not of the cat, but a picture of me looking contented after my recent job interview. Sorry for the dissapointment. Meeow

From Annie Madrazo
Posted on August 11, 2005 at 2:16 AM

Hi, nice post. =) God bless. =)

From Susan Jeter
Posted on August 11, 2005 at 4:27 PM

Skwarking - what an onomatopoetic word!

From John Lanceley
Posted on August 11, 2005 at 11:37 PM

Repetez-vous en Englais sil vous plait?

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