Got the second of those Richard Lloyd PDFs printed off today. The Mrs. had me email it to her, and she printed it off at work. So yeah, that's going into the binder tonight.
You know what, though? Some of the greatest lessons that #START has taught me had less to do with the binder tonight than they did about music in general. Here's what I mean. I taught tonight, one of my last lessons with my first ever student up here in Northwest Iowa. In her last lesson, she finally conquered a song she has wanted to learn since she began taking lessons last fall. So, knowing that we were running out of lessons (there's maybe one more), I asked her what she wanted to work on for the last couple of lessons. "Jason Mraz," she says. So we did. She really likes "I'm Yours," off of We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things. The original version is in B. We capoed at 4, which made the chords G,D,Em, and C.
I had to egg her on a little bit, but the chords were easy, which she liked, and I discovered something about myself too. I'm getting more comfortable with my voice. As soon as we were done with the lesson, she and her sister ran off to bed singing Taylor Swift's "22," so I started playing that, and singing along quietly while my wife chatted with my student's Mom (and our really good friend) in the other room.
I was going to sort out the music instruction DVDs tonight, but I think that and the genre studies will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm exhausted. Tomorrow, however, is the last day of work, and so after that, the rest of the packing (and the music work) is going to pick up in earnest.
Good day today.
You know what, though? Some of the greatest lessons that #START has taught me had less to do with the binder tonight than they did about music in general. Here's what I mean. I taught tonight, one of my last lessons with my first ever student up here in Northwest Iowa. In her last lesson, she finally conquered a song she has wanted to learn since she began taking lessons last fall. So, knowing that we were running out of lessons (there's maybe one more), I asked her what she wanted to work on for the last couple of lessons. "Jason Mraz," she says. So we did. She really likes "I'm Yours," off of We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things. The original version is in B. We capoed at 4, which made the chords G,D,Em, and C.
I had to egg her on a little bit, but the chords were easy, which she liked, and I discovered something about myself too. I'm getting more comfortable with my voice. As soon as we were done with the lesson, she and her sister ran off to bed singing Taylor Swift's "22," so I started playing that, and singing along quietly while my wife chatted with my student's Mom (and our really good friend) in the other room.
I was going to sort out the music instruction DVDs tonight, but I think that and the genre studies will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm exhausted. Tomorrow, however, is the last day of work, and so after that, the rest of the packing (and the music work) is going to pick up in earnest.
Good day today.
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