Alright, today's my first day at Do-Re-Mi music school ... XD Reach there about 9.25am ... actually, was much earlier but I loiter downstairs ... eat breakfast XD Journey from home to the school took only 10 mins ... XD
When I went upstairs, the teacher is still having breakfast with someone else. Probably her partner ... ^^;; btw, her co-worker/colleague/partner (?) is a guy XD
Anyway, paid the balance of 85 dollars today ... and I bought the theory book as well. It cost me another 8.80 dollars XD Am so nervous the first 5 minutes, took a long time to get the sound out XD
Ended up learning the slur, when it should have been the tongueing first XD Like the slur better XD finally managed to hold the note for 4 beats, but anyway, have to go back home and practice more ... (e.g. look myself in the mirror when practising ... so I know if my positioning of the mouthpiece is off ... )
Finally, know the correct way to hold the flute and support it while letting go of some of the notes button. She also taught me the correct way to maintain and clean the insides of my flute - with the use of the cleaning rod and cloth. In another few months time, she's gonna teach me how to change the 'cleaning' paper thats' situated behind every notes button - that helps to absorb the water as we blow into the flute XD ...
If the paper's not change, its' gonna be quite sticky as time goes by ... Well, it turns out the teacher is using the same flute model as mine too XD We are both using flute model YFL-221 from Yamaha XD
The school's quite small actually, only have about 3-4 rooms for use. The room that I'm using for my flute class is just like the size of my bedroom - except it now held abt 4 organ/keyboard? Not so sure of what's the name of the instrument ...
Later on, we move on to the room next door for the theory lesson - I suspect the same room is use for grp session for theory as well ... since there's white board and long tables with several chairs around it. ^^;;
As the teacher and the guy is having breakfast earlier on in that same theory room that we are using, when I went in - theres' still the smell of chicken in it XD
Didn't get the chance to see the other student whom turned up at 10.30 XD kinda overshot a little, so the teacher went out to attend the other student whom arrived, and I was kinda packing up my stuff in the theory room XD
>.< so far so good, nothing too complex or complicated. Just need to practise more, especially the breathing techniques ... but my arm ... T.T getting numb after holding the flute in the same position for 30 mins ... T.T maybe slightly more, since the theory kind of took only 15 mins then the time is up :P
Right, have to work now ... shall update another time when I'm free.
P.S: passport ready for collection, so the application went through alright ... and I was worrying about whether the photo is alright for them ^^;;
Shall collect it in the upcoming week ... still deciding whether I wanna go on my free day or on the days whereby I'm working ^^;;
When I went upstairs, the teacher is still having breakfast with someone else. Probably her partner ... ^^;; btw, her co-worker/colleague/partner (?) is a guy XD
Anyway, paid the balance of 85 dollars today ... and I bought the theory book as well. It cost me another 8.80 dollars XD Am so nervous the first 5 minutes, took a long time to get the sound out XD
Ended up learning the slur, when it should have been the tongueing first XD Like the slur better XD finally managed to hold the note for 4 beats, but anyway, have to go back home and practice more ... (e.g. look myself in the mirror when practising ... so I know if my positioning of the mouthpiece is off ... )
Finally, know the correct way to hold the flute and support it while letting go of some of the notes button. She also taught me the correct way to maintain and clean the insides of my flute - with the use of the cleaning rod and cloth. In another few months time, she's gonna teach me how to change the 'cleaning' paper thats' situated behind every notes button - that helps to absorb the water as we blow into the flute XD ...
If the paper's not change, its' gonna be quite sticky as time goes by ... Well, it turns out the teacher is using the same flute model as mine too XD We are both using flute model YFL-221 from Yamaha XD
The school's quite small actually, only have about 3-4 rooms for use. The room that I'm using for my flute class is just like the size of my bedroom - except it now held abt 4 organ/keyboard? Not so sure of what's the name of the instrument ...
Later on, we move on to the room next door for the theory lesson - I suspect the same room is use for grp session for theory as well ... since there's white board and long tables with several chairs around it. ^^;;
As the teacher and the guy is having breakfast earlier on in that same theory room that we are using, when I went in - theres' still the smell of chicken in it XD
Didn't get the chance to see the other student whom turned up at 10.30 XD kinda overshot a little, so the teacher went out to attend the other student whom arrived, and I was kinda packing up my stuff in the theory room XD
>.< so far so good, nothing too complex or complicated. Just need to practise more, especially the breathing techniques ... but my arm ... T.T getting numb after holding the flute in the same position for 30 mins ... T.T maybe slightly more, since the theory kind of took only 15 mins then the time is up :P
Right, have to work now ... shall update another time when I'm free.
P.S: passport ready for collection, so the application went through alright ... and I was worrying about whether the photo is alright for them ^^;;
Shall collect it in the upcoming week ... still deciding whether I wanna go on my free day or on the days whereby I'm working ^^;;
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