Music music music
Dec. 7th, 2004 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msluluWell, I aced my piano performance final today. I made a few small mistakes -- a missed note on one song, a sloppy chord change on another -- but overall, it felt pretty good. Until I sat down.
See, Rachel had us perform alphabetically. That meant I was first. I got up there. I played. I played fairly well. I heard the murmurs as I paused between my songs. I knew what was coming even before I walked away from the piano and heard Rachel say "If you play like that, you will get an A. The rhythm and tempo were all perfect."
Then I sat and listened to everyone else play. Few people even managed to play all three of their pieces. Those that did restarted many times, stopped in the middle of songs, hit mostly the wrong notes. It wasn't until the Russian girl, who played last and didn't even know what the pieces were but sightread them almost perfectly, before there was anyone else whose performance was comparable.
I felt kinda bad, like I had cheated. I know I started the class with a good deal of knowledge about the instrument, but I'm still certain that I needed this basic intro class to get back into the swing of it, to get the theory study that I never grasped as a kid.
But I felt like I was showing off.
See, Rachel had us perform alphabetically. That meant I was first. I got up there. I played. I played fairly well. I heard the murmurs as I paused between my songs. I knew what was coming even before I walked away from the piano and heard Rachel say "If you play like that, you will get an A. The rhythm and tempo were all perfect."
Then I sat and listened to everyone else play. Few people even managed to play all three of their pieces. Those that did restarted many times, stopped in the middle of songs, hit mostly the wrong notes. It wasn't until the Russian girl, who played last and didn't even know what the pieces were but sightread them almost perfectly, before there was anyone else whose performance was comparable.
I felt kinda bad, like I had cheated. I know I started the class with a good deal of knowledge about the instrument, but I'm still certain that I needed this basic intro class to get back into the swing of it, to get the theory study that I never grasped as a kid.
But I felt like I was showing off.
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Date: 2004-12-08 06:27 am (UTC)The final was tonight, so I'm now done with school for the semester, YAY!
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Date: 2004-12-08 03:31 pm (UTC)Rachel says her class is harder. I didn't believe her at first, but she could be right.