littletune, I think you're lucky you don't have an asian parent; If I ever said that to my mom, you're sure to find me outside of a smashed window... In other news, if you're wanting to learn English words, the English word for"to throw out of a window" is defenestrate
PS: Don't stereotype Asian parents
I'm sleeping.
I'm so hungry I could eat a bear.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! *panic mode*Haven't practiced properly for almost a month >_<Ever since I moved in with my boyfriend (in a 10sqm apartment) I haven't had a place to have my digital piano at so that I can sit down with it whenever I feel like it. This has kinda killed my "practice at the very least an hour per day" life-style, and I'm hating it!Can't wait to get a new bigger apartment. :S*hides in a corner and mopes silently*
That's entirely wrong. Don't wait, don't hide'n'mope, just get out of this situation. Asap. Just my opinion.
You type in your sleep? A-May-zing!Best,Alistair
It's really difficult though, I'm between jobs, and my bf is a student, so we can't buy a new apartment until I get employed again. >_<
So sorry to read that But perhaps your digital needs less than 2 sqm?
If you have a digital like the Yamaha P85 you could search for a cheap foldable stand, and if the piano isn't in use, fold the stand and put the piano somewhere in a corner, or under the bed.
When my home was in reform, I had no place to put my DP too. When I wanted to practice, I just put it over my bed and at the end I kept under the bed
i think you should start a topic about your problem.
Am I only imagining or are people really ignoring me most of the time lately? Well I mean it's ok, it's just that I always start to worry if I said or did something wrong...But well... I wanted to say that usually it's really cool when it's Friday... but today I REALLY wish it wasn't Friday yet!! Because then there's only a weekend and then........ a really difficult and scary week!!!! I have something scary almost every day next week! And what if I'll have a bad week?? And I'll do really bad I'm really scared!!
No you aren't being ignored, dear Littletune! And good luck for the scary things!! I have had some "scary stuff" too. Today I had my final exam for singing and music with babies and I was very nervous!! But all went well and I now am officially certificated Plus I played three pieces of my Styx program for an Alumni meeting of my school in the evening, and that was quite heavy, (but it was very important for me to play there!!) since I also had of course not only to prepare my own (though only simulated) Baby lesson the days before, but also follow all the exam lessons of the other participants of that baby seminar today, during the whole day. So I basically had no time to practice for my recital at the Alumni meeting! And of course all the teaching and preparing my student's concert for next Saturday had to happen as well during this time. So now I am not only tired, but actually inexistent!!
I think it's very cute, and of course wonderful, but also very funny (for some reason) anytime you say about music with or for babies. It always makes me laugh. And, it is for some reason funny anytime you say about the babies at all, like when you said "that baby seminar today" ... haha. Well, please always "talk" about it as you wish, because I really do think it's great! And, congratulations on several things, I guess , btw! But, I guess I just always picture all of these babies being around, maybe kind of laying there doing sometimes almost nothing ... and, they are just absorbing music and being musical in their own ways, but not everybody would think so! Yet, it's true! I guess I picture you being musical with babies and it just seems great and makes me smile .Anyway, congratulations again .And, yes, best wishes in your studies, Littletune!
Yeah that's exactly what I feel too, m1469 I am fascinated by how receptive babies are to music. They absorb it with their whole being. I attended a lesson where the teacher put all the babies on the grand piano and played, so they could sense the vibrations, and they were just plainly fascinated, making huge round eyes ! I hope I can start a class after the summer break
And I learned a lot during these seminars. For instance, did you know that very little babies have the ability to close their ears? You can put them under the grand and play full throttle and they would just sleep right away! I have seen it in one of the lessons and I was very surprised!
Well, without you needing to reveal secrets, I will be interested to learn how it goes for you, how you enjoy it yourself . hee hee ... sorry, I have to laugh again about all the babies on the piano ... haha ... how many were there? I can just picture their huge round eyes and several times throughout the day today, I have randomly pretended to be one of those babies on the piano, making huge round eyes, thinking and feeling what a baby would feel, and think about what that looks like. I know, that's weird, but I guess I'm a little strange . Of course, this is not something that is entirely secret .No, actually, I had no formal idea! I find that surprising and very interesting ... thanks for sharing these things .
And thank you m1469! That thing with babies really is funny I mean babies are funny anyway... they're like different kind of beings (well I know that some grownups think that about kids too ).
I know next to nothing about babies' responses to music but I do remember years ago a pianist making sure that his very small baby got held up against the framework of the piano while he played Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen et al in order to try to ensure that, if she didn't eventually get to feel as though she grew up with this music right from the get-go, it wouldn't be his fault.Best,Alistair
Yeah, I think I can relate to that! I wonder who that was and how it turned out for his daughter later in life
After being subjected to those composers, she either ended up in prison or the looney bin.
Hmm that sounds like it was a bit mean of that teacher
Yes, I'm happy I am not entirely the only one who thinks it's a little bit funny . I know what you mean regarding babies being sort of like different beings, and I know what you mean regarding some adults thinking that kids are like different beings, as well. It seems that kids often think that adults are entirely different beings, too! I myself don't exactly think that way, and I honestly don't remember ever thinking that way about adults. In fact, I always, always gravitated towards individuals who were older than me, as I felt I generally related better with them (as far as I could relate with people at all, anyway). That has changed a little for me, by now, though! Not that I don't relate with people who have more years than I do (I go to coffee sometimes, for example, with a woman who is perhaps 35 years (?) my senior and that feels entirely natural and comfortable). I remember sometimes when I was a kid, I'd see on movies about adults who didn't like children and that never made any sense at all to me... I always thought "now, that is really stupid! Everybody was a child sometime, so you are saying basically that you don't even like your very own self, and you don't even realize what you're saying!" ... hee hee. I guess that's a little bit of a tangent.
Oh and I hope you don't think I think you're boring!... cause you're like just completely the opposite of boring And Wolfi too! And some other people from Pianostreet too 8
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