I don’t think I mentioned that the college up in Rice Lake hired me to play for student vocal lessons. There are four students – two one hour lessons and 2 half hour lessons, for which I get paid $45. I go every other week. And it is really fun! I just love the new voice teacher. She is very much a college level teacher, so expects a lot of the students – something that was definitely not the case in the past. Like she tells them they should know the notes and rhythms before the first lesson on the piece. One girl actually does, but the others struggle with that. In the past, not only did most of them not know their notes at their lessons, but they still didn’t know the notes and rhythms when they came to me to prepare for the recital. Their teacher was just playing their notes with them at lessons.
Three of them sang for a masters class at the college last Friday. There was a husband and wife vocal team that was down from UW-Superior to put on a concert on Saturday and they did this class on Friday afternoon. I learned so much!
Today was my first day to practice for the first concert at the Chetek Schools for this year. The 7th and 8th grade choir is pretty small, but they sing well. The 6th grade choir is larger than 7/8 combined, and they actually sing pretty well, too. The concert is Monday. And so it begins for another year.
Oooh! That sure sounds like fun accompanying for college lessons!
I suppose it would depend on the teacher, but this one is really great! Sitting at the piano for 3 hours gets a little tiring, but as jobs go, you can’t get much better!