Slogan: Unfinished Projects

Hye folks,
Here we are at the end of another month and for the first time I feel like I have actually accomplished something. Last evening as I was playing one of my new simple pieces, the ones I am using for two-hand practice, suddenly I realized that I had been keeping up on the left-hand side as well as getting the melody going with my right hand. I know it is just chording on the bass, but it still counts in my opinion.

I was so astonished that I actually had to stop and think about it for a minute and then it was nearly impossible to get back to that piece, The Christ Child's Lullabye, it says its played slowly and tenderly. So far I have mastered the S-S-L-O-W part, I'll get to the tenderly part later ~ I hope :)

This month I have played more regularly than in the past two years and it feels like its starting to come back. I called a friend last night who has a piece of music that I have lost and she said . . . well, she said that she has it, but since she's been away all winter, we had so much to talk about that I don't think we discussed me getting a copy.

But, she is back and we are going to try to get the group lesson going again. It'll be great to have someone to encourage each other with. My fingering feels pretty sticky in some of the crossover places, but they are the simple pieces and I am able to add them into practice also. Its really funny to think that Row Row Row Your Boat has complicated bits, it was the first piece I ever learned and I forgot that there's a couple of them. At the time I thot, 'O, this is so embarrassing, I'm playing nursery rhymes', but now I see that its more complicated than Twinkle Twinkle so it was a good one and I feel bad about not taking it seriously.

Isn't it strange that I behaved the same way, as an adult student, as I did as a child in school over things I didn't want to do. I loved my lessons but hated feeling like it was a put-down in any fashiion. Ooooooooooh, sensitive me, still taking it all personally !

My aim for today is to have a good practice session and then come back this evening and do a proper summary so I can start fresh with a good solid list of possibilities for the coming month of May.

Cheers, Meg