Thursday, December 30, 2010

Teaching music to an adult learner

Just finished third keyboard lesson with my student.

Am feeling...relieved? thankful?...that the lessons have gone well so far and that she's enjoying them.

Today, we worked on chord structure and inversions, and she played four simple pieces on her own for the first time: Twinkle Twinkle, Jingle Bells, Are You Sleeping, Row Row Row Your Boat.

Wow.

At the start of the lesson, my student mentioned that she'd had a massive migraine the day before.

So we prayed together, offering up her migraine as well as the day's lesson.

That's what I love about working with fellow believers: we're on the same page and share similar values, which expands our options and solutions.

Time flew by really quickly (always one of my worries: what if the lesson drags and we finish earlier than planned?) and when we next looked, 45 min had gone by and she had to go. The lesson was meant to be 30 min long.

Better that than the reverse situation any time!

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