My Piano Lessons...and Views! :D

 I want to talk about my piano lessons, because most of my posts, tweets,and statuses just say something like ,"GRRRRRRRRRr piano lessons! >:( :P" or something like that, but I never do explain my piano lessons.In this post, I'm going to explain what I do during my piano lessons, and what.

Usually my piano lessons are Mondays. 7-9 pm. I get an hour, and my sister gets an hour, but my sister is doing a Grade 10 Piano Exam which is in like...4 weeks, and she spent over $300 on it, so she wants to pass, so now, currently I get 45 minutes, and my sister gets 1 hour and 15 minutes. Some people in my school play piano, like Teagan, who only goes to piano lessons every second week. I go to piano lessons every week. Unless its a holiday, like Victoria Day. ;) Well, anyways, my mom usually picks us up at 6:48 (ish), my sister gets the house keys, the piano books, and some homework or ... something to do while the other person is having piano lessons. Usually I bring my iPod Touch with my earphones, or if I have homework or a test tomorrow (Tuesday) then I bring it too. We get into the car, and it takes 6+ minutes to drive to our piano teacher's house. When we are finally in the house, we take off our shoes, and go down the stairs to the piano studio in her house.

We take turns going first, my sister would go first for 1 week, and then I would go first for 1 week., etc, etc, etc,
Well, let's pretend I'm going first:
Sol I get my piano binder, my grade 8 book, and my notebook that my piano teacher writes on for what I have to do each week, etc, etc, etc, for every piece, etc. I sit on the piano bench, and we usually start with Technique. Technique is Scales, etc.  Major and Minor Scales, Arpeggios, Four Note Broken, Diminish and Dominate 7's, triads, formulas, etc.
We spent, about 10 minutes on it, next we do Sightreading.

Sightreading is playing a piano piece that you've never played before, its just to test your reading and stuff. It's actually not that hard. :) My sightreading book is purple. :\  :P

Anyways, next up is usually ear training, which is like Intervals, Major and Minors, Perfect and Plagal, etc.
You use your ears to hear what is being played, etc, etc, etc.

Sightreading and Ear training take about 7 minutes each. My ear training is in a tape.

:P

Anyways, most of the lessons is on my pieces, which I spend about 40 + minutes on. Right now I have 3-4 pieces I'm playing, my pieces are either in my binder or in my purple Grade 9 Book.

But even though I'm in grade 9, im doing grade 8 right now because I have to do the exam for it, so that I can get credits for it for high school, if you know what that means. (When you're in Grade 10-12 in school you'll understand what I mean)

And then, when 45-60 minutes are up, I go to the sofa/or chair, and do my homework or go on my iPod Touch. I wait patiently for my sister to finish her lesson, and then we leave!


And that's how my piano lessons go!

Sorry if this post was boring. :P




:P BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm gonna link a post. :P

Saturday, May 22, 2010

762 Views on my blog! :D

I'm actually quite surprised that there is 761 views on blog, even thought its just probably me, and my best friends: Aaron, Teagan, Caleb, Ashley...reading it...and maybe (hopefully) some other people... I hope. Anyways, thanks for the people that have read all my posts (AKA Teagan, and the people who try to read some of my posts (AKA Ashley and Aaron) ...and thanks for the people who read a few of my posts (Caleb and...Chloe? Maybe? and maybe some strangers? haha lol )

Anyways, thats about it, bye!

Here's a picture of the View Count at the VERY bottom of my blog. Yes, keep scrolling if you wanna see it right now. :D  But I'm gonna post a pic below. :D

Click on the image to enlarge :)

Bye!!!!!