Klarinet Archive - Posting 000473.txt from 2002/12

From: Josh <eliazor@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] problem
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:19:47 -0500

Rebbeca, everyone has there own oppion. If you do not like the teacher,
fond another one. Hang in there.

Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] problem

>
> Lately I have been getting vI need to rant and get a bit of advise.
>
> I have my regular private teacher that I went to and plan to go back to
> after the new year, but right now I am seeing another teacher because I
will
> not see my teacher until after my all-state audition because she only
> teaches the one day of the week that both the winter concert, snow,
> Christmas, New year, and everything else has seemed to fall on this month.
>
> On my all-state pieces I have has 5 professional opinons on it. My private
> teacher, my band director, an army band commander, and the clarinet
teacher
> from Marshall University who all say I do an excellent job at it. Then
there
> is that guy I have been going to. Every measure I play he stops and says
> something. To three of the people I just listed I cross the break very
> smoothly on the Rose study, but to this guy he says it sounds like I am
> chopping it to death. It could be that every time I have a lesson with
this
> guy that I have a nervous breakdown and cry my eyes out and can't play for
a
> day or so. I get very nervous around him and everything just goes blank
and
> it is like I forget everything I know because he was so harsh on me at the
> first lesson. He also puts down my private teacher who plays with the West
> Virginia Symphony and whom is a very good teacher. Then today I learn that
> he doesn't even play clarinet at all.
>
> ery winded after a few minutes of practice and I can't do it anymore. I
sit
> there and sulk because I CAN NOT practice. I don't know exactly what is
> wrong, but I constantly think of the comments I get from him. When I told
> him how I felt and that I didn't want to take lessons with him anymore he
> called me a baby.
>
> Does it sound like I am acting like a baby? I think in a way I am, but I
> really can't help it because I am so tore up over it. I have two weeks
until
> my audition and the last day of school is tomorrow, so this means that I
> will be on my own. Is this a wise of me? I really do think that I should
> stop, but what if I am just a baby? I did make it on my own with no
private
> instruction at all last year, would that make it safe this year?
>
> I don't know what to do! I try to talk to my band direcot about it but all
> he says is that it is because I am his best student and he tries to push
me
> by insulting me.
>
> -Rebecca
>
>
>
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