Saturday, February 21, 2009

A Nervous Tune

When Renee's first started playing her 1st song, she was reluctant about her practice, as being a perfectionist(as per her teachers and PD), she didn't like the occasional 'out of tune' she'd produced, especially when she had to change from no 'finger pressing' to full 3 fingers pressing notes(there'd be an extra beat pause when she did so, but now, after 2 days of practices, she's better, less than 1 beat).

Actually, she was surprisingly not bad on the song last Friday and I guess that was why she was more confident and had even surprised me by saying that she'd like to play for her ahmah and everyone today. However, not sure if it's due to her being nervous, she didn't do very well during her practice today and her confidence's dampened. Thus the refusal to play when we got to my mom's, hahaha. After some coaxing, I took out her violin and she automatically began to play but with the 'har' look on. Knowing that she's still a young kid, they were all very supportive and still applauded when she's finished the song(with many notes out of tune, hahaha). She had been very nervous(alot more nervous than when she 1st performed it for her papa), so I asked her to stay calm and play it again. Arh, this time round, it was better, though not as good as during her practices, but it was good enough - Uncle EH said "oh this time better" and with that, she 'closed shop' immediately, hahaha.

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