In view of the coming LNY holiday, I proposed to Ms Mok that we extend to a full hour lesson for the piano accompaniment practice + aural lesson. She suggested that we go at 3:15pm today instead of 3:30pm instead as the latter will crash with the next student's. I obliged and we rushed like mad, got there on time today but were made to wait half hour for the prevoius student to end his! Geez. What a complete waste of time and ended up we were only able to do just half an hour for ours and this teacher is not cheap, and her fees do not go proportionately, so we actually lost out alot, due to some inconsiderate parent who delayed her son's lesson(I was told it's becos she kept asking the teacher for 1 more, 1 more....), haiz...(the later student hadn't arrived when we were done and Ms Mok's husband said we could go for extn, but we've alr got our stuff planned and we had to leave, no choice) Ms Mok wasn't in today and if I had known better, I would have just knocked on the door!
I relayed my worry that Renee might not be able to 'catch up' due to insufficient amount of practice, especially on the aural part but Ms Tan assured me again and again that Renee's ready and will pass. In fact, she said that they both(herself and Ms Mok) felt that there's no need for Renee to have any extra lessons(but hey, it's going to be only 3 lessons and today's only 1/2 hr!) since she seems ok but they feared that her unwillingness to perform/speak infront of others will hinder in her examination results. Actually, this is also my concern and that's why I'd thought that more practices to get her more accustomed to how the exam will be like, might help her better.
The Sunday after the LNY holiday week will be the last lesson before her grading exam day and we're left with the possibility of another lesson on a weekday/end that week which might seem abit tough for us to arrange. If there's really no choice, then we'd just have to let Renee go for her exam as it is, after only 3 accompaniment practices and aural lessons, haiz...
One of the exam pieces
1 who's familiar with this piece will spot the couple of 'out of tune' notes Renee had made, Ms Tan, being pitch perfect(as cited by Ms Mok), has definitely spotted it and had even corrected her fingering(which she said was a common prob), lolz.
(actually, when I played the videos back for her, she complained that she din play them nice enough, lolz)
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