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gabbysun...
...I had my first violin lesson with my new teacher today. And it was SO GOOD WOW. :D :D :D Maybe it was just that I hadn't had a lesson in about four or five months, but I think it might also have been that I'd been unhappy with both Anne and Shelley (vln and vla teachers) for quite a while. Anne, I've always felt, doesn't really like teaching older students (and it's NOT JUST ME who's noticed, just so you know. Anne basically pushes all her older students off either to Lynley or a non-Suzuki teacher. Ask Caitlyn or Mel sometime.) Also, she knows I'm not going to practice, so I don't... So I guess I kinda feel like this is a chance for a new, practising-every-day leaf. :D With Shelley it was that I constantly disagreed with her musical interpretations and, I mean, when that happens there's just NOTHING you can do. What, I should say to my teacher "Actually I totally hate the way you want me to play this STFU"? Um, no.
So HOORAY, my lesson with Lois went REALLY WELL. We did scales and tonalizations (and OMG I actually enjoyed them... I haven't done them for SO long but Kim made me believe in them again at camp, so...) and reviews and then the Rameau, which went well for a first performance for a teacher (!) AND then I started a new piece, Handel's Sonata Number Four, which I totally do not know because it's not well-known and we hardly ever play it in group, so it was really exciting! I feel very good about it, especially because then I went home AND DID 40 MINUTES OF PRACTICE WITHOUT EVEN NOTICING, yo. *beams*
That was pretty much the be3st thing about my day, although Logic was kinda cool, because there was this one thing where:
Lecturer: Saying A only if B is the same as saying A -> B
Me&restofclass: OMGWTFNO
Lecturer: No, really! *insert really bad explanationhere*
Class: *STILL NOT GETTING IT*
Lecturer: OMG
Class: OMG
Lecturer: Okay try it ANOTHER WAY *draws Venn Diagram*
I: *draw Truth Table*
I&Class: *still not getting it*
Lecturer: OKAY FINE YOU'RE DUMB AND I'M MOVING ON.
I: OMG I UNDERSTAND YAY!!!
Um, I realise that TOTAL INCOMPREHENSION is not normally a fun thing, but it really was then. Because it was so boring and obvious the first two classes, except when it actually didn't make sense and the dumb explanations weren't helping at all. But this one actually made sense when I figured it out, so hooray. (I do, however, think it's dumb to use antecedent and consequent as either side of the ->; consequent implies a causal relationship that is not there.)
gabbysun......I had my first violin lesson with my new teacher today. And it was SO GOOD WOW. :D :D :D Maybe it was just that I hadn't had a lesson in about four or five months, but I think it might also have been that I'd been unhappy with both Anne and Shelley (vln and vla teachers) for quite a while. Anne, I've always felt, doesn't really like teaching older students (and it's NOT JUST ME who's noticed, just so you know. Anne basically pushes all her older students off either to Lynley or a non-Suzuki teacher. Ask Caitlyn or Mel sometime.) Also, she knows I'm not going to practice, so I don't... So I guess I kinda feel like this is a chance for a new, practising-every-day leaf. :D With Shelley it was that I constantly disagreed with her musical interpretations and, I mean, when that happens there's just NOTHING you can do. What, I should say to my teacher "Actually I totally hate the way you want me to play this STFU"? Um, no.
So HOORAY, my lesson with Lois went REALLY WELL. We did scales and tonalizations (and OMG I actually enjoyed them... I haven't done them for SO long but Kim made me believe in them again at camp, so...) and reviews and then the Rameau, which went well for a first performance for a teacher (!) AND then I started a new piece, Handel's Sonata Number Four, which I totally do not know because it's not well-known and we hardly ever play it in group, so it was really exciting! I feel very good about it, especially because then I went home AND DID 40 MINUTES OF PRACTICE WITHOUT EVEN NOTICING, yo. *beams*
That was pretty much the be3st thing about my day, although Logic was kinda cool, because there was this one thing where:
Lecturer: Saying A only if B is the same as saying A -> B
Me&restofclass: OMGWTFNO
Lecturer: No, really! *insert really bad explanationhere*
Class: *STILL NOT GETTING IT*
Lecturer: OMG
Class: OMG
Lecturer: Okay try it ANOTHER WAY *draws Venn Diagram*
I: *draw Truth Table*
I&Class: *still not getting it*
Lecturer: OKAY FINE YOU'RE DUMB AND I'M MOVING ON.
I: OMG I UNDERSTAND YAY!!!
Um, I realise that TOTAL INCOMPREHENSION is not normally a fun thing, but it really was then. Because it was so boring and obvious the first two classes, except when it actually didn't make sense and the dumb explanations weren't helping at all. But this one actually made sense when I figured it out, so hooray. (I do, however, think it's dumb to use antecedent and consequent as either side of the ->; consequent implies a causal relationship that is not there.)
