Walk, piano lessons
Feb. 4th, 2004 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreOn the way into the park I saw a hawk heading for the woods. By the time I parked and got to the area, I couldn't spot it-- but I heard it, holding territory negotiations with a blue jay. It was interesting to hear the two close together. The jay has the deeper voice, but the hawk's scream has a tone quality that gives me the shivers.
At one point on the trail there were tracks where a fox trotted across a field and then crossed the trail in a few long jumps... one of which landed in unexpectedly deep snow. Full body print of a red fox, tail and all. A few steps later I could see where he had paused to shake off the snow.
At piano lessons, as soon as my oldest student sat down he asked about "that song my sister was just playing that sounded like pirates." We grabbed her music, found the song, and he sightread some of it, and then started changing the notes. He said it sounded like something from Pirates of the Caribbeans. I'm not familiar enough with that score to know how close he was, but at the end of his lesson we had some time left, so I gave him staff paper to write down what he had figured out. He wrote down several bars of it before he had to play it to figure out the next notes-- he's obviously able to hear it in his head, and translate that to notation. He even put in a time sigature and rests in the treble (since he's writing for left hand only), and asked me which way the note stems should go. I'm impressed... this is an 11 year old!
At one point on the trail there were tracks where a fox trotted across a field and then crossed the trail in a few long jumps... one of which landed in unexpectedly deep snow. Full body print of a red fox, tail and all. A few steps later I could see where he had paused to shake off the snow.
At piano lessons, as soon as my oldest student sat down he asked about "that song my sister was just playing that sounded like pirates." We grabbed her music, found the song, and he sightread some of it, and then started changing the notes. He said it sounded like something from Pirates of the Caribbeans. I'm not familiar enough with that score to know how close he was, but at the end of his lesson we had some time left, so I gave him staff paper to write down what he had figured out. He wrote down several bars of it before he had to play it to figure out the next notes-- he's obviously able to hear it in his head, and translate that to notation. He even put in a time sigature and rests in the treble (since he's writing for left hand only), and asked me which way the note stems should go. I'm impressed... this is an 11 year old!
