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shadesofmauve) wrote2014-02-13 10:20 pm
shadesofmauve) wrote2014-02-13 10:20 pm
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Went to a Klezmer learning session
It really worked out my sight-reading chops, which was particularly challenging since the dots tend to dance around on the page after about 8 p.m. And I ended up being the helper a few times, too, which I enjoy. I went over near the piano to read the music there, and the host's cute eight-year-old was doing one fingered chords. The guy who'd been helping her had gotten distracted by something else, and she gave me this look -- this 'they've abandoned me, I'm drowning and I'm to shy to ask for help' look -- and so I helped her find where she needed to be in the music... and then realized it was waaaay too much for her to try and actually follow, so I read the chords aloud for her while trying to sight read it and play it myself.
...I usually have trouble just talking and playing at the same time, so I'm rather proud of that despite doing a pretty crappy job.
When I went back to sit with E I got the Look a few more times -- after all, at that point I was the Adult who had come to the Rescue -- so I went over and, rather than attempt that mess again, just made my finger the bouncing ball.
On the other end of the age range, a friend of mine who's two weeks from retirement was really impressed by the third position stuff, so I marked up fingering on her sheet music and gave her an exercise to work on.
Yay! \o/
...I usually have trouble just talking and playing at the same time, so I'm rather proud of that despite doing a pretty crappy job.
When I went back to sit with E I got the Look a few more times -- after all, at that point I was the Adult who had come to the Rescue -- so I went over and, rather than attempt that mess again, just made my finger the bouncing ball.
On the other end of the age range, a friend of mine who's two weeks from retirement was really impressed by the third position stuff, so I marked up fingering on her sheet music and gave her an exercise to work on.
Yay! \o/