Isnt It A Bummer When....... Options

[A.U.K]

Hard luck Andrew, I know the feeling. You want everything to go right, and then your fingers get tangled up...I think in all the lessons I've had, I've only ever had one piece where my teacher said he had nothing to say...this time round, I made plenty of mistakes, but he reckoned I played my chunk of Bach reasonably well and the last note was great...Now back to Haydn. I have to learn about bravura "in your face"/"look at me, I'm fantastic" oboe playing... it's not my natural style! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
Still, it's all good in the learning process, at least your teacher thinks you're worth pushing on and up for some hard work. Every time I'm pushed to get things just right, it always pays off, simply because it's easier next time you have to play the piece.

It was soooo frustrating I made the silliest of errors which I should have known better...twas all my own doing...and in fairness my teacher did seem fairly stunned that I had tackled the whole sonata in just under a week but I wanted to have the bare bones ready for the lesson so I could fine tune it and memorise it over the next few weeks...As for the bravura well I think I had just the tincey weensiet bit too much of that and ended up with egg on my face (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) it never hurts me to be pulled down a peg or two...adn when it was mentioned that I handled the hemiolas nicely I just said thank you with not a single clue what a Hemiola was...am still none the wiser (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I just saw the notes and the rhythm and played the wretched phrase, Hemiolas included at no extra charge... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

As I mentioned the notes were all there but I didn't stick to the rules for Baroque music and my fingers were getting faster and faster in the runs....my poor tongue was having one heck of a job matching the speed it must have looked and sounded a bit frantic rather like a duck landing on a frozen pond... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Anyway we discussed my next couple of weeks work and then my teacher said "Oh just for some light relief could you sight read the Cimarosa for me now" so out came the music and I read the 1st 2nd and 3rd movements...for her. You can't really say I was sight reading, I have heard this Concerto many times so that always makes things easier but at the end of a nearly two hour lesson it was one heck of a blow...

Never mind we always have a cup of tea and choccy biscuits afterwards and that always makes me feel very spoilt... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

It's interesting though when we think we have something correctly established to watch the bridges come tumbling down... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Also its vital that we get brought to task about our playing...no one is perfect...(except AmandaL and CarolPiano) and a gentle reminder that we don't know it all does nobody any harm whatsoever...

Hey ho...feeling perky...

Andrew

[carol*piano]

Also its vital that we get brought to task about our playing...no one is perfect...(except AmandaL and CarolPiano) and a gentle reminder that we don't know it all does nobody any harm whatsoever...

Aww - that made me smile in the middle of a bad day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)