Lesson Journal: Lesson #2

Friday, January 2, 2009

Time: 9:00 AM-10:15 AM
Velocity: 23 measures
Average velocity: 34 measures

Well, I saw E, who is my other piano teacher that I see at home, today. I have two, because E is the one I started piano lessons with 15 years ago, and S, the one I had my last lesson with, is the one I started with about 9 years ago. Well, S wasn’t teaching that much over the break, and was pretty booked, so I scheduled with both, so that I could get two per week. E even scheduled me in during her own break from teaching.

Neither of them is the one I see at college, Mrs. S, who I will be seeing next Thursday, finally!

Well anyway, I told E that I had finished the Rachmaninoff piece, but she wanted me to play through it all just to make sure everything was OK. She said it was fine, but made a few suggestions.

Then we continued with Scarlatti. I had learned 10 measures on Tuesday, so we started on measure 11. I ended up learning 23 measures, ending on the top of the third page.

It wasn’t too hard, but as the lesson drew to a close, I had a little trouble remembering everything, so had to review it a couple of times. Of course, I have to practice it now, and get it faster.

I know that I’ve heard that melody somewhere, especially the one starting at measure 19 at the top of page 2, but I’m not sure where.

I’m hoping I can finish this by next Thursday. I have a lesson on Monday with S, and then one final lesson before the end of my break, on Tuesday with E. As long as I learn 20-25 measures per lesson, I should be able to finish it.

I want to finish it, because Mrs. S asked me to finish the first movement of the concerto, the Rachmaninoff piece, as well as this Scarlatti piece, before the beginning of the semester.