I agreed to teach Sarah the piano.
The trouble is she's bloody awful.
Not so much at playing, more at being taught.
She's persistent, which is a good thing. You can't learn if you give up practicing after a few minutes. But she refuses to follow my suggestions - eg practicing one hand alone, or just a few bars at a time until she's got the hang of it. No, she insists on trying to play the piece all the way through.
Again and again.
And again and again and again and again and again...
Just the one piece. Over and over.
It's Für Elise by Beethoven. I reckon if someone could rig up a kind of coil system at his cemetery, we could use the amount Beethoven must be turning in his grave to generate electricity for most of western Europe.
The same notes. Over and over
The security alarm went off at work last night. People don't like it at the best of times. It's worse for me - it's the same notes.
DA da DA da DA...
AAAargh!!
The trouble is she's bloody awful.
Not so much at playing, more at being taught.
She's persistent, which is a good thing. You can't learn if you give up practicing after a few minutes. But she refuses to follow my suggestions - eg practicing one hand alone, or just a few bars at a time until she's got the hang of it. No, she insists on trying to play the piece all the way through.
Again and again.
And again and again and again and again and again...
Just the one piece. Over and over.
It's Für Elise by Beethoven. I reckon if someone could rig up a kind of coil system at his cemetery, we could use the amount Beethoven must be turning in his grave to generate electricity for most of western Europe.
The same notes. Over and over
The security alarm went off at work last night. People don't like it at the best of times. It's worse for me - it's the same notes.
DA da DA da DA...
AAAargh!!
The best part was when Sarah & I trudged back to the car from the supermarket, we sat in the heat & drank a whole packet of chilled, Waitrose finest, tomato & basil soup, from the container. 
