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With school starting back in just a few days, I’ve been hammering away at schedules of all sorts. The school schedule itself seems to be in flux, with an ebb of last-minute changes and adjustments to the all-powerful Master Schedule. Surprise personnel changes and a surge in enrollment have seen quite a bit of shuffling taking place, though it doesn’t seem quite as chaotic as it has been in past years.
The new academic year also means that I’m scheduling students for private music lessons. In a normal year, it can be a little difficult to put together a consistent weekly schedule. This year, I have so many students, it’s been a Sisyphean task, although I think I nearly have the boulder pushed to the top of the hill.
Or, like Sisyphus, I’m only fooling myself, and the boulder is about to roll backwards, flattening me in the process.
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Just as an aside – I wish we lived closer; my retirement bucket list was to learn to play the piano. When I first retired, I thought I’d teach myself, lol, by buying one of those electronic keyboard (it’s simply the keyboard that plugs in) but got intimidated by the ‘electronic-ness’ of it (my generation doesn’t have ‘electronics gene’. Long story short – I never did anything about it. Sigh.
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Audre, I would LOVE to teach you piano lessons. There are always online lessons, but I find they’re not the same as in-person lessons. Sometimes it really makes a difference to be able to show a student a technique or fingering position face-to-face.
Don’t let the “electronic-ness” of the keyboard intimidate you! Most of them are just like a piano, you just turn them on and play! There are some advanced workstation keyboards and MIDI controllers that are very advanced, but it sounds like you don’t have one of those.
Get yourself a good method book and give it a go! Here’s one I use with my adult students: https://www.amazon.com/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-Piano-Course/dp/0882846167/
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You are so sweet! How kind of you. Thank you, Port!!
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My pleasure! You can definitely teach yourself quite a bit, and you could find a good teacher locally to get you started. We need more music in the world—more GOOD music, I should say!
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LOL! I wouldn’t get too excited too soon, lol!
Give Murph a hug.
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