Lessons Learned This Week

The Maestro has covered so many things in lessons so far that there is too much to cover in one practice session. You can have one good practice with the cello out, and cover other things later with the cello put away.

If you are going to have a practice without a cello, you don't even have to tell him that you are having a practice. You are just pretending to be a flower growing while listening to Cello music. That's fun, that's not work.

If you haven't told him that you are having a practice, you can end the practice whenever things stop working without it being an ordeal. You can also start it again whenever you want.

The Maestro is only three. We aren't going to get a good practice with the cello out everyday. That's OK. If consistency were the most important thing, we should have waited until he was 32. Apparently, consistency doesn't gain more importanance until he is five.

He is quite sensitive to noise at lessons. That may be because he is listening carefully and has his defenses down. He is usually sensitive to noise, but he seems less prepared to handle loud things, including cello playing, at a cello lesson than usual.

Letting him improvise things that aren't text book during practices isn't all bad. Even the Teacher says so, as long as he holds the cello correctly.

The Maestro taking cello lessons from the Teacher is part of some universal plan. It's unclear what the result is supposed to be, but if it is not my plan, I have no right to develop expectations of what the outcome should be.