February 6, 2005 at 10:26 PM

Well here we are with the new year well under way,our music school has only just gone back after the long summer break(if you could have called it summer l can only recall a handful of hot days the whole season,have'nt had a need to pull out the swimwear this year!)Anyway as l said our local music school has just gone back,and we had our first lesson with our new teacher Sarah,what a patient and lovely person she is,we went over techniques of care and handling of the violin and bow,correct positioning of the instrument in order to play correctly,and correct hand position(l think the hand's are going to be sore for a while until we get used to using them in such a different way!)
We learnt to read a few notes and managed to get those notes to play on the violin.The confusion of it all is starting to dissipate now,it all seem's so scary in the beginning,and you wonder to yourself,if at our age it would be possible to learn to play,but now we realise even if it takes us twenty years,the satisfaction that comes with learning and playing an instrument will make it all worth it in the end.
We are now booked in weekly for lessons and have been issued practice sheets to learn before our next one,it's a bit like being back at school,but at least with this we are going because we want to not because we have to! Such a positive experience cant' wait for the next lesson!

From Misty Stanley-Jones
Posted on February 15, 2005 at 1:44 AM

What an inspiration! I too am a (prospective) adult student. How exciting to be beginning!

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