While there is nothing more humiliating than someone cutting down your skill, so there is also nothing more ego-boosting than a skilled teacher telling you you're good. Last week at my first piano lesson, Dr. Dean (new teacher) told me in so many words that he was not especially impressed and that we had a lot of work to do, threw out my rhapsody that I had been working so hard on, (on the basis that it was too easy, even though I've been working for a year and still couldn't perform it) and gave me three new pieces to practice. Well, I was mad, to say the least, but determined to prove that I was good. This morning at approximately 9:12 he told me he was very pleased with how I had progressed during the week. I wonder if he knows how much power he has over me? Probably not, because any human would be bound to abuse it, but he is simply using it to make me work harder. Needless to say I will be practicing two hours a day now instead of one because I have a healthy sense of competition, even if I have no one to compete with but myself.
Goodbye, I need to put those batteries in my camera.
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