Piano Answers

When you were 8 years old, your mom handed you an ice cream. You thanked her by yelling at her & telling her its the wrong kind.
When you were 9 years old, she paid for piano lessons.
You thanked her by never even bothering to practice.
When you were 10 years old she drove you all day,
from soccer to football to one birthday party after another.
You thanked her by jumping out of the car & never looking back.
When you were 11 years old, she took you & your friends to the movies. You thanked her by asking to sit in a different row.
When you were 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain TV shows. You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.
When you were 13, she suggested a haircut that was becoming. You thanked her by telling her she had no taste.
When you were 14, she paid for a month away at summer camp.
You thanked her by not writing a single letter.
When you were 15, she came home from work, looking for a hug.
You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked..
When you were 16, she taught you how to drive her car.
You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.
When you were 17, she was expecting an important call.
You thanked her by being on the phone all night..
When you were 18, she cried at your high school graduation.
You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.
When you were 19, she paid for your college tuition, drove you to campus carried your bags.
You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm so you wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of your friends.
When you were 25, she helped to pay for your wedding, & she cried & told you how deeply she loved you. You thanked her by moving halfway across the country..
When you were 50, she fell & needed you to take care of her. You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.
And then, one day, she quietly died.
And everything you never did came crashing down like thunder on YOUR HEART.
If you love your MOM, share this with others & make sure your mom is happy when you sleep tonight.
If you don’t… then u obviously don’t care if your mom dies.

how much does it charge for a piano lesson in australia newcastle?what do I need to know before get a piano lesson??

What is the piano tuition rate in your area?
Over here it is $ 80 monthly for beginners,for a 1 hour lesson 4 times a week.
and $ 90 a month for Grade 1 onwards ( piano & theory). Some studios charge $ 100 a month for Grade 1 ( 1 hour lesson).
And the list goes on,,,,,,,,,
What about your area?

Is £20 for one hour, a reasonable price for piano lessons?
Thing is, I already have music lessons for my clarinet & saxophone, so I don’t want to pay more than I have to for piano lessons.
Thanks, Clare

I had tuition as a child. I had 2 teachers & they both died God bless them shortly after taking me on as a pupil. my grandfather was self taught

Hi, I’m planning to attend the International Music Festival in Burgos, Spain, this July. It is a very prestigious music festival with some of the best musicians in the world providing individual & ensemble playing training. If I attend this music festival, I will improve my musical ability tremendously. The only problem is that the tuition is $1,000 U.S. dollars, the boarding is $1,100 (which includes my room, 3 meals, to & from transportation to the airport, & two sightseeing trips), & an $80 application fee BEFORE even looking at airfare tickets. Here is what I would like to know. Because this particular music festival does not offer scholarships:
-Are there any organizations or institutions that I could apply for a scholarship?
-What are some ways that I could fundraise?
-Are there places or people that I could ask for donations from?
I know that we are in a heavy recession & there is not much money available for these types of opportunities, but I would appreciate any input or help that you may have. Thank you so much!

So Ive been thinkin about it….My dad is all for it but my mom wants me to do music since thats where my area of expertese are. She wants me to be a famous/professional musician but I dont want to be a “one trick pony” since well….thats all I can pretty much do is play piano n sax plus she doesnt believe me when I told her this 7 months ago. I want to join to see the world, pay off my college tuition, & for job security reasons. This is what I REALLY REALLY want to do. I dont know what I am suppose to do at this time so could someone help me??!!!!

In a school meeting for the Senior teachers, my name was singled out for bad performance. It was a meeting for senior teachers, which meant that junior teachers like me need not attend. One of the senior teachers wrote a report for that meeting that says…. All the New Substitute Teacher’s Performance were satisfactory , except for me.What does that say about the person who wrote the report about me, behind my back- singling me out in front of everyone ?
How do you think I am suppose to react with this stupid teacher smearing my name & giving me a bad reputation infront of everyone?
She had just costed me my job & kicked my rice bowl. I needed that teaching job very badly to pay for my college tuition fees.
I thought that Performance Review Report was supposed to be confidential.
The thing that upsets me was, I honestly thought I was doing a good job & giving my best.
To put things in perspective, I was unable to control the last class. Not because I did not want to, but simply because I was afraid the pressure would get to me & I did not want that. My mother suffers from high blood pressure as a result from continuosly scolding & yelling at the maid. She advised me not to yell & scold the students & scream at them at the top of my lungs, until it affects your health.
But yet, I noticed that most of the time this is the only way a teacher can get the attention of her students & control the class- by Yelling & shouting & screaming at them.
I only had problems with that 1 class. A few months after that they took that class out of my schedule when they revised the whole school’s timetable due to a lack of teachers. When they took that class out of my schedule I honestly felt a relief, & I thought , ” Good, now I can focus more on my teaching, instead of wasting time scolding the problematic students,”.
But I didnt realise that stupid teacher had taken that into account & written such a bad report about me that it costed me my job.
She did not even talk to me about it or asked me how I was doing.
I was not informed anything about it.
In fact I found out about the report by accident.
And now it just costed me my job.
True, I wanted to transfer out to a school that did not had such a high stress level, but not like this.
The strange thing was, the school is a good school with high academic expectations, & the students all did their homework. It was a Girls School, which means there is no discipline problems involving the boys.
As I was studying part-time & teaching part time, I did not had the time to sit around & gossip with the other teachers in the staff cafeteria.
So did I just lost my job because I did not socialise or participate in their daily gossip ?
What do you think ?
I felt that I had to do what I did, because of my studies.I teach in a school & study piano part time, so I had to conserve my time & energy.I work 8 hours & come home & practice another 5 hours. Because its practice, its not like biology or chemistry where you can cram last minute study or burn the midnight oil.
As one of my friends put it, there is so much competition & back stabbing & politics & gossip there.)
My friend got the job offer (it was a contract renewal but requested for a transfer to another school.
What do you think?
Will I be able to get another teaching job ?

When you came into the world, she held you in her arms.
You thanked her by wailing like a banshee.
When you were 1 year old, she fed you & bathed you.
You thanked her by crying all night long.
When you were 2 years old, she taught you to walk.
You thanked her by running away when she called.
When you were 3 years old, she made all your meals with love.
You thanked her by tossing your plate on the floor.
When you were 4 years old, she gave you some crayons.
You thanked her by coloring the dining room table.
When you were 5 years old, she dressed you for the holidays.
You thanked her by plopping into the nearest pile of mud.
When you were 6 years old, she walked you to school.
You thanked her by screaming, “I’M NOT GOING!”
When you were 7 years old, she bought you a baseball.
You thanked her by throwing it through the
next-door-neighbor’s window.
When you were 8 years old, she handed you an ice cream.
You thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.
When you were 9 years old, she paid for piano lessons.
You thanked her by never even bothering to practice.
When you were 10 years old, she drove you all day, from
soccer to gymnastics to one birthday party after another.
You thanked her by jumping out of the car & never looking back.
When you were 11 years old, she took you & your friends to the movies.
You thanked her by asking to sit in a different row.
When you were 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain TV shows.
You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.
Those teenage years
When you were 13, she suggested a haircut that was becoming.
You thanked her by telling her she had no taste.
When you were 14, she paid for a month away at summer camp.
You thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.
When you were 15, she came home from work, looking for a hug.
You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.
When you were 16, she taught you how to driver her car.
You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.
When you were 17, she was expecting an important call.
You thanked her by being on the phone all night.
When you were 18, she cried at your high school graduation.
You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.
Growing old & gray
When you were 19, she paid for your college tuition,
drove you to campus, carried your bags.
You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm so you wouldn’t
be embarrassed in front of your friends.
When you were 20, she asked whether you were seeing anyone.
You thanked her by saying, “It’s none of your business.”
When you were 21, she suggested certain careers for your future.
You thanked her by saying, “I don’t want to be like you.”
When you were 22, she hugged you at your college graduation.
You thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to Europe.
When you were 23, she gave you furniture for your first apartment.
You thanked her by telling your friends it was ugly.
When you were 24, she met your fiance & asked about your plans for the future.
You thanked her by glaring & growling, “Muuhh-ther, please!”
When you were 25, she helped to pay for your wedding, & she cried & told
you how deeply she loved you.
You thanked her by moving halfway across the country.
When you were 30, she called with some advice on the baby.
You thanked her by telling her, “Things are different now.”
When you were 40, she called to remind you of an relative’s birthday.
You thanked her by saying you were “really busy right now.”
When you were 50, she fell ill & needed you to take care of her.
You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.
And then, one day, she quietly died. And everything you never did came
crashing down like thunder.
I know not all kids are like this, but I am seeing alot of posts saying how annoying thier mom is, & I am hoping they read this & it wakes them up.
I lost my mom April 10th,she was my best friend & I never treated her like this,but it made me cry,I was also the one who found her,wish I could hug her again.
I did not write this ,its a poem I found on line.serching for a poem for the funeral,she only made it to 62.very unexpected.

I am going to a university as a music major, these are the required classes, so I can’t take less than this.
8 AM – Piano
9 AM – Music Theory
10 AM – History of Music
11 AM – Choir
12 PM – US History
1 PM – Voice lessons
2-4 on Thursdays – Seminar
2-4 on other days – Rehearsal
And I also need a part time job with at least 30 hours per week to be able to afford living (rent, food, etc.) with a $100 a month food budget.
My professors say that I will be practicing 3 hours a night, excluding homework.
From 5-10, if I spend 3 hours practicing, & 2 for homework… When will I ever work?
I don’t demonstrate financial need because my parents make too much (and they refuse to co-sign for anything, or help me in any way because they’re sexist & think females are meant to be housewives) so any loans I get I have to repay immediately (and the max for unsubsidized stafford doesn’t cover tuition at all), but if I have no time to work then I couldn’t afford to pay my loans…
Will I have more time than I think?
I am quite scared.

I am a Junior in High School. I have made almost every honor band in Colorado (including All-State Jazz). I take theory & composition lessons (for 3 months so far), i have been playing percussion for seven years (vibraphone would be my primary instrument if i went to Berklee), I study with the percussion professor at Colorado State University & I am also taking piano lessons. I am just curious if someone out there thinks I have what it takes to get in (and yes I have studied alot about Berklee & know about tuition etc.). I also want to study film scoring there. So once again if you could just tell me if you think I am headed in the right direction?

Read This:
arack & Michelle: Misleading money matters
Jim Brown – OneNewsNow – 7/18/2008 8:30:00 AM
Conservative leader Gary Bauer says Barack & Michelle Obama are “out to lunch” when it comes to addressing the economic challenges middle-class Americans face.
American Values president Gary Bauer says Michelle Obama’s “arrogant elitism” was “fully on display” at a recent campaign stop in Pontiac, Michigan, where she joked that a $600 tax rebate check from the government was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings.” Bauer, who points out his wife has never spent $600 on a pair of earrings, says such “gems” from Michelle Obama are being largely ignored by the mainstream media.
“She’s complained about the fact that she went to Harvard & actually had to pay for the tuition instead of it being paid for by a trust fund. These are multi-millionaires, you know, & yet their rhetoric tries to act as if somehow they’re a spokesman or they’re the real battler or hero of working-class people,” Bauer contends. “But when they say these sorts of things, I don’t think they have much experience in identifying with average working-class people at all.”
Bauer notes that earlier this year in Zanesville, Ohio, Mrs. Obama complained that she & her husband were spending as much as $10,000 a year on extra-curricular activities like dance & piano lessons for their two daughters. The median household income in Zanesville is just over $37,000 a year.
The liberal media, according to Bauer, gave Michelle Obama a pass on her remark. “I don’t see any evidence that [earrings are] what people use their rebates for. I think they use them for groceries, to meet higher energy costs, to pay off a few bills, or whatever,” he adds. “So, I think, once again, Barack & Michelle Obama are signaling in a variety of ways that they just don’t understand average Americans — the way average Americans live, the values of those average Americans.”
Bauer has written a column for the conservative magazine Human Events titled “Obama’s Moments of Candor, Promptly Extinguished.”

Before you answer this question, do consider that our doctors are here to save our lives, & without individuals of such talent, we would be much worse off than we currently are. Not everyone has the ability to do what doctors can do. I have been affected by what multiple doctors have done. Had a neurosurgeon & a cardiovascular surgeon not been there my piano teacher (78) would have died.
This issue I think is a very serious problem in this country. Consider the two situations below:
1. A physician on average makes $175,000 per year. Income taxes are about $45,000. Malpractice insurance is about $30,000. This leaves the physician with only $100,000 left (57% of his/her initial income)
2. A cardiovascular surgeon on average makes $500,000 per year. Income taxes are about $200,000 per year. Malpractice insurance is about $100,000. This leaves the surgeon with only $200,000 left (40% of his/her initial income).
Remember that all doctors have to go through 4 years of medical school (med school tuition is around $50,000 per year) & many have to go through residency (4 years of 120-hour weeks on minimum wage). Also consider that many doctors are on call 24/7, so if you take their salary & divide it by 24/7, their hourly pay is not much higher than a McDonald’s employee
It gets worse, too. With the current health care crisis & insurance monopoly, doctors’ salaries are decreasing, & malpractice insurance is increasing, & income taxes are increasing. The average doctor has seen his/her income drop by 50% in the past 10 years. This means by 2020, the physician will be down to $50-60,000, & the heart surgeon will be down to $110-120,000.
Some people try to justify malpractice insurance. The reason it is so high is not because doctors are making more mistakes. It is because insurance companies are trying to take advantage of doctors since they are already making enough to afford to lose another several thousand dollars. People also talk about how doctors in other countries don’t make as much as doctors in the US, but doctors in other countries don’t have to go through the decade of education after college American doctors have to go through. Healthcare in other countries is also much worse than in the US. Had my grandfather been treated by American doctors, he might still be alive today. Instead, he was poisoned by clearly incompetent doctors in China. No wonder foreign doctors don’t make that much.
Do you think this is fair that doctors in the US are being stripped of their incomes & losing their respect by the people? They work so hard to do good for society, & yet they are treated below average. Why do people resent them so much?

Im in year 10 & interested in the field of medicine – want to become a doctor. For GCSE’S im predicted 8A*s & 1A – core ict doesn’t go to A*. For A levels i’m thinking of taking Biology, Chemistry, Maths, French & if possible English language. Extr curricular activities that I do are: Piano & badminton. Hoping to do some voluntary work, & Duke of Edingburgh award. Work experience in a Pharmacy, & hoping to do some in hospitals.
Could I say that I do Maths & English lessons as outdoor activities because I get tuition?
What can I do to boost my chances of getting into Oxbridge for example activities etc?
What A-levels would impress good universities & help me in the route of medicine?
Do i have enough GCSE’s?
And am i worthy of even thinking of getting a place in oxbridge?
PS. i’m going to private school for my A-levels. (well hoping too).
If anyone has been to oxbridge & would like to share what their grades were at gcse & extra curricular activities etc, i would be most grateful!

If there was an inexpensive daycare center so that you could continue working & homeschool your children at the same time would you be more likely to do it?
Maybe even if the city would help fund your homeschooling tuition through a specific homeschooling program? Your children would also be in an environment where they can spend time with children of all ages, join in extracurricular activities- like karate, piano lessons, etc- & even maybe have tutoring assistance upon request.
What are your opinions?

I am a college student doing a project on American education. I listed these questions & am curious of your answers. All the schools are referring to average public schools. Your answers can be based on your knowledge as a parent, student or something you heard from a friend or read in the news. Your answers can be true nationally or just locally (please specify your geography).
Thank you!
1. What do children learn in high schools in general? What is the basic curriculum? (e.g math, reading, writing, social skills?)
2. How many hours do students spend in school per week? Does it change as the student proceeds into higher grade?
3. Are there any areas that the junior high schools specifically are concerned about? (do they have a huge emphasis on science? Sports?)
4. How many students are there in one class? What is the teacher/student ratio? Does it change as the student proceeds into higher grade?
5. What is the average parents’ involvement with the teachers that the school expects? Does it change as the student proceeds into higher grade?
6. What is the tuition per quarter? Does it change as the student proceeds into higher grade?
7. How much do you think parents in average families spend on their kid’s education outside of school? (such as on piano lessons,etc.)
8. Are you happy with the system? Anything that you think should be changed?

I am a college student doing a project on American education. I listed these questions & am curious of your answers. All the schools are referring to average public schools. Your answers can be based on your knowledge as a parent or something you heard from a friend or read in the news. Your answers can be true nationally or just locally (please specify your geography).
Thank you!
1. What do children learn at elementary schools in general? (e.g basic math, reading, writing, social skills?)
2. How many hours do students spend in school per week? Does it change as the kid proceeds into higher grade?
3. Are there any areas that the elementary schools specifically are concerned about? (do they have a huge emphasis on science? Sports?)
4. How many students are there in one class? What is the teacher/student ratio? Does it change as the kid proceeds into higher grade?
5. What is the average parents’ involvement with the teachers that the school expects? Does it change as the kid proceeds into higher grade?
6. What is the tuition per quarter? Does it change as the kid proceeds into higher grade?
7. How much do you think parents in average families spend on their kid’s education outside of school? (such as on piano lessons,etc.)

I’m about a year away from my degree & I want my son in soccer this year but practice & games will interfer w my class schedul, but he will be taking piano lessons… is that enough.. My education will help us in the long run..
My $$ is gettin shorter by the day.. I have to debate with my mom to watch him for a couple of days before school starts because I don’t have the extra money to pay out for childcare when I have to pay his tuition for school the same month. wheeew I just feel I’m going to loose my mind

lets get the basics down. I LOVE MUSIC. i am a music lover & a band geek. i want to be a music major.
well i havebeen playing the flute for a while & just started sax about a year & a half ago. well i also tinkered on the piano & well i just want to play all the instruments i can.
i have really wanted to play guitar for a while. but i know that lessons are expesive & my parents are already paying for alot of my expensis (tuition, my own flute, renting a sax, uniforms, books, etc.)
well i never asked because i felt guilty for all the money i cost them. so i never said that i wanted lessons for the guitar. but for my sister’s birthday they got her a guitar & lessons. they got her the guitar that I HAD MY EYE ON FOREVER!!!!
well needless to say i got mad. i controlled my anger & said that i wish i could take guitar lessons. the got mad & yelled at me. they said that it was so predictable for me to be like that. Hold on i am out of room

I want to learn the flute but am currently tight on money for tuition & buying a flute. But I have a harmonica & a recorder, & was wondering, will they help with being more familiar with embouchure for the flute? Or will it not make difference? I think they are very different instruments(harmonica & flute – & recorder is much less complicating than flute lolll
I just want to eventually learn flute for my own enjoyment – & wondering if knowing how to play harmonica and/or recorder would help…sorry if this question may sound silly to those of you who know how to play flute but obviously I am a complete noob. I’ve just always loved the sound of it but can’t learn it straight away.
I played piano for 4 years(8 – 12- now I’m a uni student turrning 20 this year) but I still know how to read music. I was forced to do it & to practise a lot so it was easy for me to wish to quit.