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Originally Posted by Tessar
Sorry! Had a crazy last two days.
The lesson went sooooooooooo well. I had a ton of fun! The only thing is the girl was CLEARLY anxious about me. I don't know if I made her nervous because I'm tall or what, but I kept wanting to say, "Calm down, I'm not going to bite you." I had a hint from our email exchanges that she seemed like the nervous type, so I went in very "calm" (as opposed to my typical cheerfulness) and by the end of the lesson she seemed to calm down a little... not sure what her reaction to my full personality would have been.
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That is strange! o.0 Good thing you toned it down
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The things that give me SOOOO much trouble have to do with piano. I am not used to "placing" my hands for phrases the way you have to for harp... it's a totally different mind-game from "fingerings" for piano. Then I want to put my thumbs down with my other fingers, like you do in piano, but I have to keep my thumbs up.
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What did I tell ya?! Those are the two most difficult things to do, but the two most critical things to do - that's why I said take lessons RIGHT NOW BEFORE YOU PLAY THE HARP AT ALL!!!! (or did I mention the thumb spacing? I don't remember ... but yes, that's hard!) The placing thing is even harder than the thumb thing - totally unnatural, but wow, does it work!!!! Stick with it!
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I think I surprised her at a few points... because three or four times I got into that musical "groove" where you suddenly aren't thinking, and everything works. I'd be moving slowly through the song, making sure I had the right strings (luckily from all my years of piano/penywhistle/singing/guitar/STUFF I can read Bass and Treble cleff without thinking, so I always knew what pitch I was aiming for, just trying to remember which string was which pitch)... and then all of the sudden I'd just play two measures in a row without stopping or thinking... and then I'd be looking for notes again. It's like, "I THINK HE'S GOT IT!... Okay wait, he's looking for "A" again..."
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Good for you! You're definitely musically talented
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