We had a bit of a different class this week, but I honestly enjoyed it. The content was very interesting and it opened by eyes to some new resources and perspectives. I am looking forward to Friday’s class where we will participating in Pro-D lectures. This week I spent some time going over my piano music and making some adjustments. I had a heavy workload this week, so although I didn’t spend as much time as I would like to on piano, I have all reading break to practice!
This week has been okay, I caught a few mistakes I made while teaching myself this song, which was a bit of a setback, however, I am really proud of myself for getting the left and right hand down. I head home for reading break this weekend, and am excited to play on a something other than a keyboard, I plan to submit a video of the songs progression so far while I am home. I have also attached a picture of the sheet music I am learning. It is weird because I would have played this so easily when I was younger, but since it thas been so many years I am struggling a bit, but I have to give myself grace because I don’t have an instructor helping me and it has been so many years.
I feel as though I have been fairly productive this week. After the few setbacks I had, I recovered well and did the best I could. I went to the Independant school on Friday and it was very intresting, I am really glad I decided to go. I have not seen a school like this before and didn’t even knew we had one on the island! Personally, I don’t think this system would be for me, I struggle focusing on a task when I am not given set instructions or directions to guide me through it. I also think the social aspect of school is extremely important and this setting seemed very isolating. Additonally, I fear these students may stuggle when entering univeristy, since they will be required to complete tests, assignments, and follow strict criteria. Personally, I think implementing a mix of inquiry based projects with tradtional schooling ways would be a wonderful foundation for students, I just feel as though relying only on one can be harmful.
I had a huge push back the last week. My piano I rented completely broke, so I was in a hurry to find a new one. I found one on facebook marketplace which I picked up during the weekend, however, I realized I needed an adapter for it so I ordered one on Amazon and now I am ready to go! After the set back, I was feeling unmotivated and struggled to get back into playing again. However, I sat down on Monday night and found a song I was interested in learning. It is a french song called Je te Laisserai des mots. I wrote down the cords and so far have majority of the right hand figured out. This will be a tricky song to learn, since there is a lot of hand position changes, but I am determined to get it down!
I played a lot of piano growing up in elementary school, I stopped in highschool because I was getting overwhelmed with school work. Since recently getting back into it, I have rented a piano from the UVic music room in which I brought home and started playing around with the keys. I looked up some basic songs in which I praciticed writing out the notes and beats to get familiar with the music before I start playing again. My current goal is to learn the right hand of a song by next week, however, the first step is to figure out which song that will be.
This week has been a lot of trial and error. As I navigate my way through wordpress I am getting familiar with how to use it and post my own content for my blog. This class has been super helpful in allowing me to feel comfortable to ask questions and not hesitate to ask Mike for a hand if I need it as well. I will spend the rest of this week, fixing up my blog and making it more visually appealing for the rest of the term.
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I chose to get into playing the piano again because I used to love playing growing up. I fell out of love with it as I reached highschool, however, I miss the feeling of joy it would bring me every time I touched the keys. My goal is to learn a few songs and hopefully play consistently again.