Well, life's been a bit hectic for me right now with end of semester exams going on at the moment...I've just got my piano exam left, but I'm thinking it'll be my toughest by far, but when you study an instrument it does tend to be a bit of a time consuming thing to do... When I got to University they scared me and told me that I had to do a minimum of two hours a day practising just to barely pass!!! I couldn't believe my ears...Now I understand the point.
My piano has improved quite a bit with the help of Liesl (my piano teacher), she's such an amazing pianist and she sees so much possibility in me that I can't help, but want to prove her right(if you met her you'd understand why)...then there's flute...wow...Sabine can really go at you when she wants...but she's improved my flute as well..thinking back to my tone and sound...and basically everything about my flute playing...she basically picked everything up for me...guess that's what they're there for...just didn't realise I could be pushed so hard on the flute...Sabine almost expects out of me as much as if I was playing flute as a first practical instrument rather than a second, but I guess it's because all her students before me were first practical.
Now, I'm not just a classical student at University, I'm also in a band here at home.We're called Scarlet Hill and I play the keyboard. It's not overly hard things to play, but because of my calssical background it sometimes is a bit hard to come up with something on the keyboard that goes and we really don't want to end up sounding like Muse so we try our best to avoid that from happening. There's four of us in the band; Bruce, our vocalist and bassist, David, our guitarist and Bryn, our drummer. It's always awesome to be around those guys, except they make me feel old...maybe because I'm the oldest at the age of 19 and yet I also somehow pull off being the shortest in the band...oh well...
