Are you blushing?

[lagin]

For fun, what's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you during a lesson?  My teacher had to go out in the hall so I could actually play my piece, once.  Somehow if she couldn't see me, then I was alright!

[m1469]

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[anda]

Well, I was all practiced up, but I came to my lesson feeling extremely shy.  I sat at "my" piano and my teacher sat at his, and I could not get myself to play a single note  .  I just sat there blushing and feeling all twisted inside.  For an hour the time ticked by and still I could not even force myself to play a note.  My teacher was furious, needless to say 

ooopsies, sorry Sir teacher 

that's the worst attitude your teacher could have had. i've had shy students (i work with very young children), and if i see the student is too afraid or too embarassed to play, i start talking, making jokes (to help the kid relax), and if things still don't improve, i sit myself at the piano and play something funny - that always works

[Tash]

mmm i don't think my teacher could get angry with me she's such a sweetie. but one lesson, when i was having 2 teachers so this was a male, he was like ok let's do some aural and i really didn't want to cos i sucked at it, and then i was meant to be identifying an interval or something and burst into tears and he was like wth and tried to console me it was quite funny, i'm like agh the stress of school exams oh woe is me blah blah. looking back on it it was really quite funny

[pianowelsh]

My teacher just scares me into playing however if comes out then tells me how bad it was! Hes lovely as long as hes had his shreaded wheat!

[m1469]

that's the worst attitude your teacher could have had. i've had shy students (i work with very young children), and if i see the student is too afraid or too embarassed to play, i start talking, making jokes (to help the kid relax), and if things still don't improve, i sit myself at the piano and play something funny - that always works

Well, I don't look like a little child anymore  :-, so a lot of the time people mistake me for an adult.  Maybe adults are not supposed to be as shy as children?  I really appreciate your approach 

m1469

[rlefebvr]

mmm i don't think my teacher could get angry with me she's such a sweetie. but one lesson, when i was having 2 teachers so this was a male, he was like ok let's do some aural and i really didn't want to cos i sucked at it, and then i was meant to be identifying an interval or something and burst into tears and he was like wth and tried to console me it was quite funny, i'm like agh the stress of school exams oh woe is me blah blah. looking back on it it was really quite funny

Tash, you must be more careful about how you word things.

 

[chromatickler]

mmm i don't think my teacher could get angry with me she's such a sweetie. but one lesson, when i was having 2 teachers so this was a male, he was like ok let's do some aural and i really didn't want to cos i sucked at it

hahahaha yo CG is worthy of da SDC

[m1469]

Okay, I forgot about this, but I just remembered this now so I have to share because it is cracking me up.  I was preparing quite seriously for a concert I was giving and my teacher had me practicing on stage on the concert piano (*drool*). 

Things just did not seem to be going too well and I was getting furious.  I thought that my teacher had gone away to his office, but he had only hidden himself away in the recording booth, spying on me... heh.  Well, finally I got so mad that I came down quite hard on the piano... oopsies. 

Suddenly, here comes my teacher out of hiding, storms up to the piano, scolds me for treating the instrument that way, shuts the lids and rolls it away right from in front of me.  I just sat there in confusion, there in the middle of the stage on this silly artist's bench with no piano in front of me (I felt like I was naked in the middle of a tundra.. lol).  I have to admit, I was pretty embarrassed of my behavior.

Moral of the story, don't lose your temper and hit the piano... he he

m1469

[Tash]

Tash, you must be more careful about how you word things.

 

agh stop corrupting my mind!

[lfischer]

i used to have a truly brilliant teacher, even if he was rather eccentric. i dont know what he did all night, but he always used to be really tired. some days he'd fall asleep while i'd be playing things for him, or even when i was in the middle of talking he'd just slow down and fall asleep!!
sometimes it'd be quite annoying for me if i was playing a big and exhausting piece and he'd be behind me watching intently (or so i thought). i'd finish it and then turn to see what he'd say and he'd be sitting there eyes shut, head bowed, drooling onto his chin! i felt so sorry for him when i had to wake him, he must have been SO embarrassed.

[thierry13]

Wow... weird teacher that is!!

[lfischer]

Weird yes, but absolutely amazing when he was awake! Whenever I performed anything that he had taught me I always got an amazing reception from the audience. Often my interpretation was almost entirely his, and in concert, my interpretation of these pieces was always acclaimed.
Shame I had to move teachers!