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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I AM SO TOTALLY IMPRESSED BY MERVIN. HES AN 8 YEAR OLD KID.
just went to mrs ts place to teach one of her students piano. this guy. mervin. hes 8 years old. hes taking his licentiate soon. the 3rd diploma. he took 3 exams a year.

teaching him was quite easy. except for the debussy piece. i didnt know how to teach him the pedalling part la. i always do pedalling by err intuition. how do you teach intuition?! his pedalling was very muddy and the notes kinda clashed.

guess what. he COMPOSES music. hes 8 years old! for goodness's sake he should be doing what 8 year olds do!! :DD and the pieces he compose are not those kiddy types.. they are well, "i take extracts from the great composers, like vivaldi's spring, and a part of bach's partitas and piece it together to form my own piece". when he played for me his own compositions, my jaws dropped. really dropped.

ha he was quite a show off. picking pieces from the book, exclaiming, "i know how to play this!" and he starts playing. whoa. but well. he is damn good. i was freaking impressed.

did i mention hes sight reading is better than mine? ha.

when i asked him, "do you want to be concert pianist in future?"
he replied, "yea." instantly.

this was one dude who knew exactly what he wanted in life.

note to guys: the way to melt a girl's heart is to compose a jaw-dropping piece and play it on the piano. :DD

hui jun published at 6/06/2006 11:07:00 AM

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