Today I am grinning from ear to ear. Not that you can do any other kind of grinning. For example, can you grin from forehead to chin? Or from hairline to nose tip? Obviously not. If someone could manage to do it, they’d probably scare the sh*t out of anyone witnessing the feat.
Come on, Shail. Less of nonsense and more of sense. I think I heard someone say that. Absolutely right you are. I better fall in line and start making sense if I still want to keep the few readers I have.
So, as I said, I am grinning, as is customary, from ear to ear. The reason is that I am making progress.
Naturally the question now arises. Progress, how? Progress, where? Progress, in what? May be there are more questions. But these would suffice to give a general impression of the readers’ mind.
This whole week, and part of the week before that, I have been practising playing the song Mandara Cheppundo from the movie Dasaratham, on the keyboard. And now I can play it without making any mistakes. Progress, right?
But, there is a problem. When the teacher asks me to play, I am liable to fumble and it annoys me no end. This after the many times I have practiced with no mistakes whatsoever. Sheesh, how old am I? Imagine still findingI oneself nervous before the teacher! That calls for a super eye-roll at myself.
Of course, I know a way around it. Record myself playing the song, and then send it to her. How’s that?
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Well done for learning music at all! I never ever played well in front of my guitar teacher at university. I fumbled and cursed my way through every bar. I did better in the exams thankfully and he soon realised that I was good at playing despite the fact he never ever got to hear it. He used to pass on prospective students to me as he didn’t have room and he trusted me to do a good job. I’ve taught guitar for 32 years now!
Thirty two years! Wow. By the way, Ken, I wanted to let you know that I found myself a new teacher and I now find the ‘learning’ a lot easier.
Oh great! A good teacher is always well worth it to smooth the learning process. I say that though I am biased 😉
You may be biased, but it is an undeniable truth! 😀😄
Haha I can relate to this. Used to take keyboard lessons as a kid and always felt it’s easy to make progress when you practice with no one around. However, I remember how our teacher (or whom we called ‘The Master’) made me and some of the other kids nervous when he asked us to play in front of him one by one. I blame the parents because they teased all of us that if we didn’t perform well, ‘The Master’ will pull out a bamboo stick or chooral and smack us until we make it right.
Remember those times well XD.
Yes, I know there were those kind of days with chooral and all. Thankfully and hopefully they are behind us!