Great student quote of the day..

[pizno]

I was teaching a nine year old girl and talking to her about how to shape a phrase, starting quiet, growing, and then tailing off at the end.  She very quickly said "Oh, it's like putting a magnifying glass on the middle of it!".  What a great way of seeing it, and she is so right!  I've repeated that to every student since then  and they all know, immediately what she means.

[gerryjay]

dear pizno:
children always come with unusual stuff. it's wonderful to understand how they see the world without our ready-made conceptions.
best!

[lostinidlewonder]

A little girl taught me a big lessons many years ago in one of our lessons. How to describe combination of fingers.. 12 pinch, 13 flick, 23 poke out eyes. etc ^_^ I always found them funny when we have a lessons I say, POKE ITS EYES OUT!

[gerryjay]

A little girl taught me a big lessons many years ago in one of our lessons. How to describe combination of fingers.. 12 pinch, 13 flick, 23 poke out eyes. etc ^_^ I always found them funny when we have a lessons I say, POKE ITS EYES OUT!

dear lost:
she developed a very advanced system of learning, some sort of interdisciplinary piano-karate technique...
best!

[pianowolfi]

A girl who works on a Bartók piece: "You know, I think this Composer went to a Bar in Tokyo, got drunk, and composed this piece and that's why he wrote such weird sounding chords in it" 

[pianowolfi]

Another one from a guy who is quite a bit difficult to teach: "Don't blame me for being like this. I have ADHD, blame god for it" 

[go12_3]

I taught a  6 year old student  during her lesson, she said,
"like ten little hammers"  referring to her fingers when I explained a little about striking the keys.  

[loonbohol]

my stupid quote:

"A person who sound like a certain composer is the composer, Just an Reincarnation."

"Music is a set of sounds that turn our minds Autistic."