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Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
spt -- #7 of 100
I love Lelly's challenge this month: for the date of every Tuesday in October, do a self-portrait for the corresponding number of your 100 list.
I wasn't super thrilled about my #7 (I teach piano lessons), but I did it anyway because I don't really have any pictures of me with my students. I just happened to have 3 lessons today, but I could only convince one of them to do an sp with me!
It's a pretty scary picture of me, but it's a testament to how I love Lelly and Self-Portrait Tuesday that I'm posting it anyway...
Anyway. I can't exactly remember how long I've been teaching lessons, but I think I started when Lucas was a baby, in 1999. Marc suggested I try teaching piano as a form of extra income, but I was worried that I didn't have the skill or the credentials. After talking with his sister Michelle, who also used to teach piano, I decided I could probably do it. I dove in, and soon realized that I definitely had the skills I needed. I'm not a concert pianist, and my students won't likely be concert pianists, either, but I love music and I have a feel for piano. A former R.S. president told me that I have a sensitive touch with the piano, and I like the sound of that.
I've taught a lot of different kids, many of them siblings, and it's been fun for me to get to know them, and their families as well. I quite often dread my lesson days, as they're usually my busiest days (and I tend to dread obligations), but when the students arrive, I actually enjoy them (most of them). I've taught challenging students who can't concentrate, easy students who love to practice, and students who try to memorize the finger numbers rather than the notes. Right now I even have a student who is in her 50's! When Marc heard she wanted to take lessons, he asked me what I was going to teach her (she was our ward organist). I wasn't sure, but it's been about 9 months and we haven't run out of things to work on yet.
I've tried to teach piano to Max and Lucas, and that has surely been a difficult task. I feel sure that they wouldn't whine or "forget" to practice if their teacher wasn't their mom. Max got through several levels before he switched to cello. I wish he would continue with piano, as he has a natural ability, but he practices the cello so much -- and loves it so much -- that I don't feel like I can really push him in that regard. Lucas just fights me like crazy.
So there you have it. Being able to play the piano is a skill that has served me well, from allowing me to: be the jazz choir accompanist in 7th grade, be a primary pianist (best calling in the world) and choir accompanist, be a piano teacher and given me a nice little supplementary income, accompany myself and others, and play for pure pleasure. Thanks again, Mom & Dad, for giving me lessons!
I wasn't super thrilled about my #7 (I teach piano lessons), but I did it anyway because I don't really have any pictures of me with my students. I just happened to have 3 lessons today, but I could only convince one of them to do an sp with me!
It's a pretty scary picture of me, but it's a testament to how I love Lelly and Self-Portrait Tuesday that I'm posting it anyway...
Anyway. I can't exactly remember how long I've been teaching lessons, but I think I started when Lucas was a baby, in 1999. Marc suggested I try teaching piano as a form of extra income, but I was worried that I didn't have the skill or the credentials. After talking with his sister Michelle, who also used to teach piano, I decided I could probably do it. I dove in, and soon realized that I definitely had the skills I needed. I'm not a concert pianist, and my students won't likely be concert pianists, either, but I love music and I have a feel for piano. A former R.S. president told me that I have a sensitive touch with the piano, and I like the sound of that.
I've taught a lot of different kids, many of them siblings, and it's been fun for me to get to know them, and their families as well. I quite often dread my lesson days, as they're usually my busiest days (and I tend to dread obligations), but when the students arrive, I actually enjoy them (most of them). I've taught challenging students who can't concentrate, easy students who love to practice, and students who try to memorize the finger numbers rather than the notes. Right now I even have a student who is in her 50's! When Marc heard she wanted to take lessons, he asked me what I was going to teach her (she was our ward organist). I wasn't sure, but it's been about 9 months and we haven't run out of things to work on yet.
I've tried to teach piano to Max and Lucas, and that has surely been a difficult task. I feel sure that they wouldn't whine or "forget" to practice if their teacher wasn't their mom. Max got through several levels before he switched to cello. I wish he would continue with piano, as he has a natural ability, but he practices the cello so much -- and loves it so much -- that I don't feel like I can really push him in that regard. Lucas just fights me like crazy.
So there you have it. Being able to play the piano is a skill that has served me well, from allowing me to: be the jazz choir accompanist in 7th grade, be a primary pianist (best calling in the world) and choir accompanist, be a piano teacher and given me a nice little supplementary income, accompany myself and others, and play for pure pleasure. Thanks again, Mom & Dad, for giving me lessons!
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