Membership Expired Beckie Tunnicliffe
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I take all new bookings through my online booking system, where they pay for a lesson via Paypal. Since implementing this system I have completely removed the problem of ‘no shows’ – I generally like to think that if they won’t pay in advance for a lesson then they are not serious or committed for the lessons. I also ask for 48 hours notice for cancellation to be entitled to a refund.
In the first lesson I let the student know that I ask for them to pay a lesson in advance from the second lesson. Most people have been understanding of this and I never really have a problem with it. If they do ask why I do this I tell them that it is to secure their lesson in advance as well as provides them with security knowing that the lesson is already paid for if they for example, forget to bring payment on one lesson, they can then pay the lesson in advance from the next time to put them back to where they were. I also get everyone to sign a pre-prepared student agreement which I make a copy of for them to take home:)
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I am the same – always purposefully in the car when I am on my own! When I was living with my parents I just couldn’t practice in the house as my Mum would ring up the family so they could ‘hear me sing’ – I hated that!!!
When I was preparing for my Grade 8 I made a CD to put in my car of the original tracks I needed to learn, followed by the backing track. Then I would play it until I took the exam:) It would send my other half mad because he couldn’t listen to any other music in my car!
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I literally had something that made me nearly laugh out loud the other day.
I was teaching a young girl her first piano lesson and as we are learning the pitch names I was getting her to make words out of the letters e.g bag, cabbage, dad
I ask her what words she can think of and she sits there for a while thinking, and then says “What about ‘bae’?”
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Thank you – I do two showcases a year, my next one is on the 20th! She does find them useful but just wants a bit more experience. I also like the idea of the students performing to each other, I will suggest that to some of them!
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Hello!
I’ve just had a listen to some of the tracks you posted and I can hear what you mean, it sounds very tense and like she isn’t taking in enough breath to finish the phrases, especially on the top notes. I can definitely hear an improvement on the warmer tones though!
I heard she was taking breaths where she wasn’t meant to…for my students who do this I get them to print out the lyrics and listen to the original version and make a note of where the breaths were taken. That way they have more of an idea of where they should be breathing and it’s there in black and white and I make then stick to it and only change it very slightly in some cases as obviously everyone is different.
Hope that helps a little bit:)
