Today's Renee's very 1st Nafa lesson(both practical and theory) and as parental involvement is also required by the school, I sat in with her whilst papa waited outside(at the teacher's premise).
As expected, there were already some correction of posture and playing style, and Renee was alittle confused at first, not knowing how to react as she'd been taught otherwise. However, as the teacher did not appear to be as fierce as what she's anticipated, she quickly relaxed and when we told her to forget what she's learnt before and concentrate on the current techniques, she tried to adapt... Obviously, there're more getting-used-to to come and I just hope that it won't take too long, :).
Teacher Xu had not informed me earlier on which books to obtain and thus, I had only brought along whatever Renee's learning from and as for the scales book, she asked for grade II's(which luckily, was what she's been learning before we went for the audition). Then after a few rounds of playing, she said that Renee should not need to go through the grade I exam 'cos she's more advanced for this grade but then she'd need to pass Nafa's internal examination first, before being given the approval for the next grade's exam. And when I told her that actually, Renee's already gone for her ABRSM grade I exam, she looked abit puzzled(probably wondering why she's still taking grade I now, hahaha), then commented shortly that she's very young but can skip to grade III the next round(if approved of cos). It's ok for us 'cos it's also not our wish to push her too much and the priority now is to correct her playing style/techniques.
On our way to Gramercy Music after the practical lessons, I told Papa that Renee was soo engrossed with the teacher's playing and he commented that this teacher's playing sounded alot better too. Well, she's with the SSO afterall, so I guess there's a definite difference...
Despite our stops to 2 stores(Gramercy at Katong and Synwin at Marina Sq), some of the books are still out-of-stock(for more than 2 months now) and although we were still early for her theory lesson, we arrived late due to the traffic jam. And due to that, I didn't get to speak to the teacher about the un-obtained books nor did I get to tell Renee which book she's to use today. I was still looking anxiously outside the room when I realised that I had been too 'kangqiong' when I saw her settling down to her table and taking the correct book out, heee... With papa waiting downstairs, I went off straight away, for our tea break but only returning later to find that most parents actually waited outside the classroom for the lesson to end! I guessed this would be what I'd be doing when papa doesn't/can't take us there.... :(
Later in the evening, I received a text from the teacher requesting us to go for the practical lesson the next Monday 'cos she has a rehearsal the next Sunday and I was thinking, perhaps this might be an opportunity for us to change to a weekday's for the future lessons - not sure if it'd be more convenient but it would most likely be better for papa, lolz...
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wow congrat so young and yet accepted to Nafa
I was sought of curious at which age she took up violin lesson . guess her first violin teacher must be great too;))
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