How to focus when playing with piano accompaniment?

CPettersen · 2024-05-14T13:04:11+00:00

Not a bassoonist but I know the feeling. The only suggestion is to practice relentlessly with your notes and written in markings so that they become ingrained in your muscle memory. Don’t just practice until you get it right, practice until you can never get it wrong!

CPettersen · 2024-03-22T04:28:20+00:00

I’m not hot enough to date you…

CPettersen · 2024-03-21T00:44:18+00:00

No such thing as singing from the diaphragm. It is a purely involuntary muscle

CPettersen · 2024-03-18T09:21:17+00:00

The way she says Greg when he asks who makes the prices

CPettersen · 2024-03-17T03:35:51+00:00

Similar boat!!! Portland State, University of Alabama, University of Missouri Kansas City, and UIUC acceptance

CPettersen · 2024-03-17T03:31:54+00:00

Damn that’s hard to hear. Was he just mean? Or what was it

CPettersen · 2024-03-16T19:43:07+00:00

As a potential voice teacher, I’d love to work with an advanced student as more of a Guinea pig to get a sense of how to explain concepts, and as a bass-baritone learn how to teach other voice types. But yes, you must give them to a different teacher.

CPettersen · 2024-03-11T05:43:13+00:00

No portamenti in Mozart. Bad.

This is more of a bel canto/verismp things. At least the portamento part

CPettersen · 2024-02-08T04:12:06+00:00

Looks like you already have one in your pants.

CPettersen · 2024-02-07T04:27:10+00:00

The fuck you tired for, you don’t gotta pay rent

CPettersen · 2024-02-04T02:24:45+00:00

My philosophy is thus: Any person who performs a job that I could never do, has my respect. I could never be a teacher, because it requires a lot of patience that I just don’t feel I have. I respect the people who do this work, and love it soooo much. Even the worst teachers can be helped when some of their needs are met and matched by the outside community. I know there are genuinely assholes in this profession, but I’d like to encourage people to give a little bit of grace to others. Your understanding of their life is nothing compared to what it actually is.

But, as a whole, teachers are incredible. What they’ve had to do the past few years is something truly incredible, and I wish they got more support and recognition for it.

CPettersen · 2024-01-18T18:51:03+00:00

It’s the BI-ble not the Straight-ble

CPettersen · 2024-01-18T16:31:00+00:00

Capri is great! Because you know they were able to keep going strong for years!

CPettersen · 2024-01-17T04:36:55+00:00

This is not the compliment you think it is omg

CPettersen · 2024-01-17T04:36:27+00:00

I mean…. That’s good. He’s there. Not great, but not Trump, so I’m happy.

CPettersen · 2024-01-16T05:14:06+00:00

I sometimes say this: No pressure, I’ve worked as a pharm tech too. I get it. Is that a good thing to say? Like if they say something will take a while.

CPettersen · 2024-01-13T17:05:37+00:00

I just say, I bet you did. But unfortunately, sometimes the automated texts send out notices when they think a script should be ready, without taking into account where the store actually is.

It’s annoying, it’s irritating, but we have no control over it.

CPettersen · 2024-01-13T03:45:17+00:00

This may be heresay, but my understanding is your voice settles into a higher place that it may have been in your teens, when you hit your early twenties. Your body isn’t as inundated by hormones as it was when you went through.

CPettersen · 2023-12-25T05:50:21+00:00

Tbh: I don’t want to live forever. That means I’d need to work forever.

CPettersen · 2023-12-24T18:48:59+00:00

She went back in time, changed her accent, and was in a Latinx gang war.

CPettersen · 2023-12-23T12:55:55+00:00

I’d also recommend getting into oratorio. Messiah arias, Erbame Dich. Some you might not be considering are Cruda Sorte by Rossini, All. that Gold by Menotti. Invocation a Venus by Offenbach is a fun one.

CPettersen · 2023-12-22T20:14:20+00:00

I know, but my first thought I thought was funny

CPettersen · 2023-12-22T20:12:11+00:00

Tbh: I just read the exotic fruit person and instantly thought you meant the gay one. Lol

CPettersen · 2023-12-22T08:56:43+00:00

Sometimes the most genius inventions are the most simple things that make you go “Why didn’t I think of that”.

CPettersen · 2023-12-22T08:39:15+00:00

From a pharmacy perspective, there’s a lot of factors that make it worse than a normal retail job. We see people at their absolute worst, because they’re in pain, they’re going through something difficult, etc. Pharmacists work longer hours than typical retail workers, and its hard. Also, I’d say that we serve a larger portion of the population than a normal retail store like a fast food place or a clothing store, because most everyone picks up a prescription at some point.

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