hello

i was just thinkin about school and unies, as you do thinking about the bands, new people i'd mett, STUDENT BAR, teachers, accomodation STUDENT BAR and then thought about school so far.

i couldnt help but think that i've been held back by my teachers. it's bad really cos it makes you think about where you'd be now if you hadn'y of been held back?

anyone else experienced my problem?

jaime

I do think I wasn't encouraged to make the most of the opportunities I had in school. But one of the good things about getting older is that you get to decide what to do with your life, and you get the chance to make your own opportunities.

I am always being held back by my teacher!!

It really annoys me- because my old teacher used to let me play whatever i wanted, and she'd help me with it, no matter how hard the piece was- but she gave up teaching a year ago, so i found a new teacher- the first lesson i had with her, she asked me what grade i was- i told her that i hadn't taken any grades on the piano, because i just wanted to enjoy playing and not have to worry about scales and stuff.

She asked me to play something for her, and I played "La Cathedrale Engloutie" by Debussy- (which my old teacher said i played really well). My new teacher just moaned about the fact that it was on the diploma list, and i shouldn't be playing it now all she lets me play is >grade 5 pieces and i hate it!!

Well I was certainly held back in school musically, because everytime I asked to learn to play the flute and paino I got turned down. and yet within 9months of started paino lessons(free of charge from a local church minister) during my last year of A Levels I done my grade 1 exam and passed with merit and 9 months after started the flute (which I started 3 months before my paino exam) I am almost at the standard to do my grade 2 exam. (and self taught until a fornight ago).

thanks........ im glad im not the only one. i prefer to play for fun, but i suppose there is a point where you need to do grades, cos there asked for sooo much.

it was really when i was told i could do GCSE music in yr8, but the teacher never got round to letting me

oh well, i've done it now, and, ive achieved my full marks may i ad lol

perhaps if i'd of done it in yr8 i mught not of got that???? who knows

jaime

i think i was slightly held back by my 1st viola teacher in primary school i was just playing things like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Frere Jacques for 2 years! i had a new teacher in yr 7 took my grade 1 in yr 8 and now going 2 take my grade 5 at end of term in yr10!

Um - I don't know if I was held back as such.

Certainly my instrumental teachers never held me back - on some occasions I felt a bit pushed!

In school music, while I was never bored as I had a massive crush on my teacher, I didn't feel challenged at all. What we did in class was just so easy in comparison to what I could do, but I was happy to do the lesson's work in about 5 minutes and then just sit there and gaze at him for the rest of the lessons - LOL!!

He used to use me as a teaching assistant sometimes, because I was so much more advanced than the others, he would get me working with a group of less able ones to help them. LOL - they just loved that, as you can imagine!

I suppose I could have done GCSE early - never really thought about it. It was never proposed as an option and it was something that didn't occur to me.

I had always been in the choir throughout primary and secondary school and played violin.

I always wanted to play piano (as did most kids) but got given a violin instead.

Must admit, I loved playing in the orchestra.
My teacher used to push me with singing because he thought I was 'talented' which is why I stayed in the choir.

The only singing I do now is Karaoke down the local pub with a few drinks !

I do play piano now though and loving it !

Fiona

I was never allowed to learn music at school...and their reasoning...because I couldn't read music they couldn't teach me to play an instrument and because I didn't play an instrument they wouldn't teach me to read music!

A real catch 22.

Now at the age of 26 I am finally playing the Clarinet, Gutiar and Ukulele. I still can't read music so it does hold me up but I get there anyway.