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... and can you? It has to be exactly the same! 
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2 quarts orange juice + 2 liters Sprite. The kids drink it all every year! (Last year I had to make two batches. They hated the carrot cake, though.) I have a sneaking suspicion that they like the party more than the recital ...
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Psh. Who wouldn't?  I usually make brownies. Easier than cake.
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I asked a student today what key the piece was in that she just played. She correctly answered A minor. I asked her how she knew, and she said well, the key signature... "It's the cousin to C.... I mean the relative."
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today a 5 year old arrived to his lesson, got close to me, looked me straight in the eyes and announced, LOUDLY,....''
HONEST TO GOD I PRACTICED THIS WEEK REALLY I DID REALLY REALLY!!!!!
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today a 5 year old arrived to his lesson, got close to me, looked me straight in the eyes and announced, LOUDLY,....''
HONEST TO GOD I PRACTICED THIS WEEK REALLY I DID REALLY REALLY!!!!! Ha! Is that when you put away your whip?  So the same student whose dad is 40, said to me last lesson: "Oh, I like this tune so much, it's really, really cool!"
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I introduced "Etude in C" and the 8 year old said "Don't you mean Ay-titude?" I had to laugh because this is the kid who has a major dose of "attitude". I told her that no, this one is 'etude' but she could compose her own piece and call it Ettitude.
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I had a 7 year old this week tell me that she misses her little toy keyboard. (I had required a piano when she started lessons, and they gave away the toy keyboard.) She said "I could take it with me, and then flip it over and do my homework on the back."
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I spent the majority of my lesson yesterday with one of my chronic-no practicers just talking about the value of practicing and making it a priority. This was followed by lots of excuses about how busy she was all the time and how she has soooo much homework, etc.
We continued our lesson, then at the end when she was packing up, she said, "Do you give guitar lessons too? I would love to learn how to play the guitar. That would give me something to do during my spare time."
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away." -Thoreau
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I spent the majority of my lesson yesterday with one of my chronic-no practicers just talking about the value of practicing and making it a priority. This was followed by lots of excuses about how busy she was all the time and how she has soooo much homework, etc.
We continued our lesson, then at the end when she was packing up, she said, "Do you give guitar lessons too? I would love to learn how to play the guitar. That would give me something to do during my spare time." LOL!
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I had a 14 year old pupil ask me 'what do the little elephants under the bass notes mean?' Baffled, I asked her to point to what she was talking about. This turned out to be the pedal marking 'Ped' which was in the lovely curly italics, this apparantly made it look like little elephants to her! Unfortunelty, that's all I see now when I look at it!
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Students says:
"Treble/Bass Clef is like a game of tag. If you're not on Bass you're in Treble!(sounds like trouble)"
Same student told me that her mom cleaned her ears so she was going to do very well at her ear-training that lesson.
She's a funny one!
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Today, I was teaching a 10yr old girl:
"When I'm 36, I'm going to invent something!" she says.
"Oh yeah? What's that, then?"
"A piano stool with a built in toilet!" she says, proudly.
"O...kay - why's that, then?" I ask.
"So that when you're practising the piano, you don't have to get up and go to the loo!" she explains.
A few minutes later..
"I wish I had a time machine."
"Why?"
"So I can travel into the future, to when I've invented my piano stool."
"Do you need the toilet, or something?"
"Er...yes!"
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Here's my studio funny for the week:
5 year old boy at his lesson today, learning a Christmas carol, played it, looked up at the ceiling and said, "wow I can't believe I did that. It must have been God!"
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Today, I was teaching a 10yr old girl:
"When I'm 36, I'm going to invent something!" she says.
"Oh yeah? What's that, then?"
"A piano stool with a built in toilet!" she says, proudly.
"O...kay - why's that, then?" I ask.
"So that when you're practising the piano, you don't have to get up and go to the loo!" she explains.
A few minutes later..
"I wish I had a time machine."
"Why?"
"So I can travel into the future, to when I've invented my piano stool."
"Do you need the toilet, or something?"
"Er...yes!"
Hilarious!!!!
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Here's my studio funny for the week:
5 year old boy at his lesson today, learning a Christmas carol, played it, looked up at the ceiling and said, "wow I can't believe I did that. It must have been God!" and maybe it was!
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"Why didn't you give me any theory last week?"
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. I just came across this thread and having the time of my life reading all of these funny stories! I nearly lost it when I read the explanation of what an accidental is. I'm an adult student, and I guess I'm going to need to brush up on my music theory again! Thanks for sharing these wonderful stories. I'll be back for more enjoyment here!
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ME: Did you practice what I told you to?
Student: Yes I did, But I did not count!
Nearly died of laughing!
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