Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Solo Festival

A few weeks ago, Brooke participated in the annual Solo Festival.  Its where you play two songs memorized for a judge and get a scoring/rating.



I was worried - she had a bad day and all I heard from outside the room was that she started on the wrong chord and had to correct herself.  But apparently she did the rest perfectly!  The next piano lesson her teacher gave her her report/score and told her she had the hardest judge and still got a superior rating! (the highest you can get)




I like to get a video of her songs she plays to remember.  Her songs this year were Mystery at Blackwater Creek and then MaryAnn.  This video I did way after the fact, so I let her go back and use music since it had been a while....







She will then have to play this plus several other songs and all scales memorized for a judge for Guild this Spring.  So this is good cuz she has two down she knows...  only 7 more to go!


While on a piano post, I also took this video.  Its amazing how quickly she can learn a song, if its one she likes.  If she doesn't like it, it sometimes takes her weeks.  This one she likes.  And even though it is more difficult a piece, she learned it after only 2 days of practice - there are a couple of blubbers (as Mrs Chris calls it), but remember this is only day 2 after getting the song!  It's called Boogie Pop I think...





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