童话 part 4

  Yeah... I'm still on the third page because I decided to try to play through from the first page, and it didn't really work out... but I still have time to prepare this for my final project!

Journey without Mrs. Miller

   I guess it's really time to talk about this, because I definitely should do it at some point. It's been quite some time (more than two months?) since I've broken away from lessons with Mrs. Miller. I think it was still around the middle of March when I first stopped, and I must say, there are teachers for a reason. I used to think that having someone there wasn't actually necessary, because I my entire jump start to piano...[I've decided to expand on this in my actual presentation instead of communicate it here!]

童话 part 3

Okay, so I worked on this song a lot but I'm still on the third page. Some of the issues I had before kept occurring. I still have problems with transitioning and such, and it's slowing me down a lot. Right now I'm only practicing reading through the notes, and playing everything at a super super super slow speed, but I can't wait to play everything at the actual (still slow) tempo.

童话 part 2

  I LOVE this song :) So far I've gotten through the first two pages, but I still need to practice more to have it sound reallyyy good. I really want this entire song to be perfect because it just, it would ruin everything if it sounded terrible. It'd be like disrespecting the song. Haha.

童话

   Ms. Lord says I should try and maybe have my younger sister find a piece of sheet music for me to sight read but honestly I know I can't do that. It would be stepping way out of my comfort zone. Instead, I thought I should make a compromise and prepare a piece to present as part of my final project. This would definitely be stepping out of my comfort zone even though I remember I previously stated that I wasn't too much affected by stage fright.

  I found this song from my iPod bank, and I think it's a very good fit for me right now. It's slow and flowy, and sort of similar to Canon in D, which I had played before. 童话 (tong hua), which means fairytale in Chinese, is a rather old, but still popular, Chinese song.

   I really like this song because it sounds really pretty and I know the lyrics to the song. It seems pretty attackable, so I'm gonna go and try out this piece right now. In the description of the video above, there is a link to the sheet music, which is what I'm using. Hope for the bestt!

Notes and Bits from Mentor Meeting

• a lot of breaks
• figure out how to speak towards these breaks?
• push more to seek more - bear that in mind
• journal? what are the reasons? explain.
• road to take? 
• not pushing = do more hands off
• you decide your fate
• mentor's job? - you (I) backed away from my project, so did Ms. Lord

-Make more lists! What do you know now that you didn't before? Of self, topic of interest, people, etc.

-PREPARE FOR PROJECT - anticipate what your evaluators are going to ask!

-scan your journals

Where's your endpoint? -> self teacher? why? 

Have Julianna bring in a piece? (final project idea?)

What do I want to know more about that I don't know now?

Do I want to explore other adults learning the piano?

Mentor Meeting Planss!

  Yeeah I see that I haven't really been doing much working on my goals. It's really falling apart. Maybe it's the end of the year coming along so quickly but I do realize that I haven't been keeping up to date with everything. One step in trying to fix that, however is that I will be brainstorming more of my ideas about my final project with Ms. Lord. Since that's coming up really soon, I need to confirm what I'm doing and work on it. So if I use some of this mentor meeting to come up with ideas, I'll at least definitely be working on one of my goals that I set for myself last week.